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The only waxiness here is in Rowan Atkinson's facial expressions

Mr. Bean's Holiday seems like a slightly odd choice for a day-and-date high definition release. Even stranger is how good it looks. If I were to use the words "demo material", you probably wouldn't normally expect me to utter this film's title in the same breath, but, honestly, I think I would. It has exactly the same look two other Universal 1.85:1 releases, Children of Men and Eastern Promises, and by that I mean that there is a small amount of filtering going on, resulting in a very slight loss of detail and some ringing, but nothing overly wondering. I wonder if Universal have two different algorithms for their day-and-date releases: one for 1.85:1 movies (slight filtering) and one for their 2.39:1 ones (no filtering). I'd have to investigate more 1.85:1 titles in order to be sure, but it honestly wouldn't surprise me at all.

Mr. Bean's Holiday
(Universal, UK, VC-1, 16.1 GB)