The film opens with Mr. Beanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bea... (Rowan Atkinson) driving his lime-green minihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bea... up to a church, where a fête is taking place. Somewhat unexpectedly, Bean wins the first prize in a raffle - holiday involving a train journey to Cannes, a video camera, and €200.

Following a misunderstanding involving a taxi at the Gare du Nord railway station in Paris, Bean is forced to make his way unorthodoxly towards the Gare de Lyon to board his next train towards Cannes. However, a vending machine prevents him from boarding, and he misses his train, giving him an hour to sample French seafood cuisine.

At the restaurant, he finds the oysters quite difficult to swallow, Bean pretends he's eating by pouring the oysters onto his napkin and then disposing of them into a near-by lady's handbag. When she reaches into her handbag for her phone, she screams. However, at this point Bean had left the restaurant.

Back on the platform, Bean asks a man, who happens to be Cannes jury member and Russian movie director Emil Dachevsky (Karel Roden), to use his camcorder to film him walking onto the train. Bean makes a big fuss and keeps asking for retakes, so by the time they are done, the train is about to leave. Although Bean manages to get onto the train, the doors close before Dachevsky can get on. Dachevsky's son, Stepan (Max Baldry) is therefore left on board by himself.

Bean attempts to befriend the boy, who has been told to get off at the next station, and eventually comes to his rescue at the station, unfortunately missing his train again. The train Stepan's father has boarded does not stop at the station, and a mobile number is held up, with the last two digits obscured. Attempts at calling the number prove fruitless. The next train comes and they board. However, Bean has left his wallet, passport and ticket on the telephone box. Bean and Stepan are thrown off the train.

Attempts at begging and miming to Puccini's O mio babbino caro prove successful, and Bean buys the pair a bus ticket to Cannes. Bean managed to lose his ticket, and he attempts to hitchhike his way there. Mr Bean soon falls asleep, exhausted from walking and wakes up on what appears to be a quaint French village but is actually a film set for a yoghurt advert. Bean ends up as an extra in the advert, directed by Carson Clay (Willem Dafoe), but inadvertently ends up destroying the set in an explosion.

Bean then tries to hitch-hike again and a lime-green Mini identical to his own picks him up, driven by actress Sabine (Emma de Caunes), who offers him a lift to Cannes. She is an aspiring actress on her way to the 59th Cannes Film Festival where the film in which she makes her debut as an extra is going to be presented. When they stop at a service station, Bean finds Stepan dancing in a café with a band. Sabine agrees to take him with them.

Due to communication difficulties, Sabine thinks Stepan is Bean's son, while Stepan thinks Sabine is Bean's fiancée. On the road again, Bean asks Sabine if she has a cellphone, which she promptly gives to Bean. Bean and the boy now attempt to call his father again, but to no avail, and the trio end up driving through the night.

When Sabine goes into a petrol station to change for the premiere, she sees a newsflash, Mr. Bean is suspected of kidnapping Stepan and that she is suspected to be his accomplice. However, since she does not want to miss the presentation of the film in Cannes in just one hour, she does not want to go to the police now to clear the misunderstanding. They have to work out a way to get into Cannes without being identified. Stepan dresses up as Sabine's daughter, while Mr. Bean dresses up as Stepan's grandmother. They manage to get through the search and Sabine arrives at the premiere on time.

After sneaking into the premiere, Bean is disappointed to see that Sabine's large role has been cut from the film,

Mr. Bean, a hopeless caretaker at the "Royal National Gallery", London is sent by his employers, who wish to get rid of him (for sleeping on the job), to America under the pseudonym of "Dr. Bean" to oversee the transfer of Whistler's Mother to a Los Angeles art gallery. Whilst on the plane, Bean entertains an air-sick boy, although unfortunately uses the wrong bag (a slightly more graphic version of a joke used in Mr. Bean Rides Again). Once at the airport, he is surprised to see policemen with guns and pretends he himself has one, which leads to him being swiftly arrested. He meets Lieutenant Brutus, who suspects he is on medication.

Once released, he meets David Langley, an employee of the Grierson art gallery and his family, with whom he is to stay for his visit. They are not impressed with the "expert", although Mr. Bean immediately wins the affection of David's son (played by Andrew Lawrence) by being able to wiggle his ears and throw jelly babies in the air and catch them in his mouth. However, David's wife is hostile about having to look after him and his rebellious teenage daughter finds him "ugly as Meat Loaf's butt". His wife later leaves after Bean breaks a family heirloom while fiddling with a CD player which in turn, results in Bean destroying a crystal statuette.

In his wife's absence, David decides to take Bean on a tour of the Los Angeles art galleries. However, Bean decides that he would rather go to Pacific Park. Here, Bean and David go on a motion simulator ride. Bean is bored by the ride and decides to make it more exciting by changing the circuits to "full power". After the ride, he is swiftly arrested again, and Brutus questions David if Bean really is a genius.

Back at home, David is unexpectedly visited by George Grierson, the boss of the gallery. David had forgotten about the visit and with his wife gone, he is left to cook. Mr. Bean claims he can cook a turkey for 20 minutes in the microwave and is left to prepare their meal. However, Bean's attempt fails and the microwave explodes, spraying turkey all over the kitchen. Afterwards, David questions Bean with some simple questions about art and finds out that he is not a doctor after all.

Once the painting arrives at the gallery, Bean is given a few minutes alone to study it for his grand "speech" at the official revealing ceremony. However, whilst dusting the frame, Bean sneezes on the painting and wipes it with a handkerchief, not knowing it is covered in blue ink. Terrified, Bean takes it to the caretaker's cupboard to get something to remove the ink with. Unfortunately, he uses lacquer thinner, which also removes the painted face from the actual painting. Bean attempts to patch it up with an extremely unconvincing cartoon face. On seeing it, David Langley is horrified and decides they should go out drinking (after they hide it back in its metal safe). Fearing he will lose his job and possibly face criminal proceedings, David drowns his sorrows with alcohol and Bean becomes drunk for the first time.

During the night, shortly after David's son mentions that he has some "great posters of Cindy Crawford" in his room, Mr. Bean hatches a plan to sort the painting out. He gathers a few items from the house: eggs, nail polish, a small brush, a hair dryer, an egg beater, a pizza slicer, a rather large pair of briefs, some chewing gum, a flashlight, and some laxative. He sneaks from the house and quietly makes his way to the gallery. He distracts the only security guard on duty and pours the entire bottle of laxative into his coffee, making the guard very ill. The guard rushes to the bathroom but is kept busy after Bean switched some of the keys for the various parts of the gallery. Bean enters the room where the painting is kept, swapping it for one of the lifesize posters of the painting, gluing it down with the the chewing gum and covers it with a texture made of egg white and nail polish to make it look aged. This works very well, and at th

Teddy is Mr. Bean's teddy bear, generally regarded as Mr. Bean's best friend. Although inanimate, the bear is often privy to Mr. Bean's various schemes and doubles as a good dish cloth or paint brush in an emergency. The bear is a dark brown, knitted oddity with button eyes and sausage-shaped limbs and invariably ends up broken in half or in various other states of destruction. Occasionally, Teddy seems to be almost animate, for example when Mr. Bean hypnotizes Teddy, snaps his fingers and the bear's head falls backwards as if he's fallen asleep instantly. Certainly, Bean behaves as if the bear is real, for example buying it a Christmas present or trying not to wake it in the mornings. Mr. Bean seems to have a supply of Teddy bears, as in cases his bear has been destroyed, either it was decapitated ("Mr. Bean in Room 426") or shrunken in the wash ("Tee Off, Mr. Bean"), and has been revived in later episodes.