The set-up for Mr Bean?s Holiday is in the title: the hapless title character wins a holiday to France, meaning this time it?s the French Riviera that?s the backdrop for the slapstick humour that has defined the series. And so Mr Bean finds himself in a series of increasingly unlikely situations, causing all manner of havoc in the process.

While unlikely to convert anyone who isn?t already a fan, Mr Bean?s Holiday is nonetheless a comedy that delivers reliable laughs very much in the spirit of what has gone before. Atkinson continues to inhabit the character with great skill, and it?s--rightly--his work here that brings the lion?s share of the laughs.