Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie UPDATED

[Ewan_McMahon]

In the past (I can confirm from UK VHS, compared to SKY TV broadcasts anyway) there have been minor differences between the North American release and the International release versions. The differences are as follows, borrowed information from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_(film)

North American version:
***David suggests Bean stuffs the turkey while he distracts the Griersons during the dinner party. While stuffing Bean loses his watch and puts his head inside but gets stuck (a gag reused from Merry Christmas Mr. Bean) and has the turkey pulled off by David.

International version: (includes two alternate scenes on either side of the deleted turkey scene above to explain its absence):
***When searching the refrigerator Bean finds two frankfurters but David thinks the Griersons are expecting something slightly more formal. Bean then finds the onion, later offered as the appetizer, then the turkey. Unable to find something else David asks Bean if he ever cooked a turkey before to which he replies 'Ah yes'. David points out that it would take about five hours to which Bean replies 'Not necessarily'.
As they shove the turkey into the microwave oven a role is reversed in which Bean, instead of David, suggests running it for 20 minutes. In this scene Bean's hair is clean having not literally 'had the turkey on'.

According to Rowan Atkinson, in the documentary Bean Scenes Unseen (included on most DVD and Bluray worldwide releases listed here on DVDCOMPARE by the way), the reason for the difference is the very different reactions from the American and European audiences in the test screenings.

I don't know if the above differences carry over to DVD and BluRay or not, and I have no idea which countries might include which versions. But regardless there is no mention on either the DVD or BluRay listing pages about these differences - perhaps it might be wise to add a note on the pages about these differences?

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

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