With an obvious nod to the 1953 classic Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, starring Jacques Tati, Mr Bean's Holiday reacquaints us with the bumbling everyman (Rowan Atkinson) some ten years after his first cinematic escapade. Nothing much seems to have changed in the intervening years: the laconic hero still drives his beloved Mini, his taste in fashion errs towards the brown and grey, and he speaks largely in growls and grunts. Most importantly, wherever Mr Bean gallivants, disaster surely follows.

The plot of the sequel, co-written by Robin Driscoll and Hamish McColl, is a hook for the usual array of set pieces. These vary from the familiar (Bean using matchsticks to keep his eyes open, getting his tie caught in a vending machine) to dazzling sequences of pure physical comedy. Some of the running gags, like his mistaken belief that the French word for 'thank you' is 'gracias', aren't funny the first time, let alone the fourth. But the childlike innocence and unwavering optimism of the eponymous loner, and his ability to floss triumph from the snarling jaws of defeat, ultimately win through.

Lady Luck unexpectedly smiles on Mr Bean when he wins a dream holiday to Cannes in his local church raffle, along with a nifty handheld digital camera. With his tiny suitcase packed and his documents safely in the pocket of his blazer, Mr Bean ventures boldly into the French capital, arriving at the Gare du Nord via Eurostar. From the moment he steps off the train, digital camera in hand, chaos spreads throughout Paris.

Bean eventually finds his way to the Gare de Lyon (thanks to a great set-piece involving a compass) and boards the train to the south coast, but not before separating award-winning Russian film director Emil Duchevsky (Karel Roden) from his ten-year-old son Stepan (Max Baldry). Taking charge of the situation, as only Mr Bean can, the Englishman abroad tries to help Stepan, but only succeeds in losing his suitcase, money and documents - and then the boy.

Stumbling on to the set of a big budget yoghurt commercial directed by Carson Clay (Willem Dafoe), Bean hooks up with pretty actress Sabine (Emma de Caunes), who is driving to Cannes for the premiere of her film. With its tributes to Tati and Buster Keaton (a wonderful traffic sequence at the end of the film), Mr Bean's Holiday is a lot of fun, including a tour-de-force demonstration of busking.

However, there are very few moments when you find yourself laughing out loud to Bean's exploits, and the gags miss as many times as they hit. Atkinson maintains a look of bemusement throughout, while de Caunes is luminous and newcomer Baldry isn't too cute or winsome. The film marks the final hurrah for Bean. He will be hanging up his loafers after this Continental adventure.

Based on the book A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce, Disney's latest computer animated feature is a triumph of style over substance, and technical might over emotional subtlety. To say that Stephen Anderson's film is zany would be an understatement - Meet the Robinsons heaves at the seams with more weird characters, plot twists, clever contraptions and ideas than can be comfortably contained in 101 minutes. If the protagonists were remotely engaging, watching the film would be an exhausting experience. Thankfully then, the seven screenwriters pull the film in so many different directions, and us with it, that this fast and frenzied time-travelling yarn unfolds as a blur. Younger viewers may find odd scraps of enjoyment from a marauding Tyrannosaurus Rex that realises it isn't physically well suited to chasing a small boy ("I have a big head . . . and little arms," he laments), or mad inventor Dr Krunklehorn who has an ingenious way of staying alert: multiple caffeine patches.

Teenagers will have to make do with a hip soundtrack including The All-American Rejects, They Might Be Giants and Rufus Wainwright.

The diminutive hero is orphaned boy genius Lewis (voiced by Daniel Hansen and Jordan Fry), who has a passion for technology and is completely immersed in his fantasy world of ingenious devices and gizmos, to the dismay of orphanage manager Mildred (Angela Bassett). Lewis is so wrapped up in his inventions that he has little time to charm potential adoptive parents, or to be sensitive to the needs of his permanently exhausted roommate Goob (Matthew Josten), who is kept awake at night by his tinkering. Convinced that his future happiness depends on tracking down his biological mother, Lewis creates a Memory Scanner to extract long buried memories of the parent he has never known.

"I have to find her Mildred and when I do, she'll take me back," he says.

The first demonstration of Lewis's creation goes spectacularly awry after a mysterious figure called Bowler Hat Guy (Stephen Anderson) sabotages the scanner, before appropriating it for his own nefarious purposes. Soon after, Lewis meets 13-year-old Wilbur Robinson (Wesley Singerman), a visitor from the near future, who conveys the dumbstruck orphan on an unforgettable journey into a world of eye-popping technology and crazy characters. A 3D version of the film is currently on release at selected cinemas around the country.