China has its own version of 'The Hangover' and it features Mr Bean and a boxing legend
CORRECTION — Monday, March 20, 8:42 a.m. EST: A former version of this story stated that Top Funny Comedian included a cameo from Mike Tyson. That is incorrect, the movie includes a cameo from boxing legend Evander Holyfield, not Tyson. We have since corrected the error in the headline and text below.
A bunch of guys go on a vacation, they get lost and a former world-champion boxing legend makes a cameo. Sound familiar?
It's the plot of Top Funny Comedian, a movie which has just premiered in China.
So don't go mistaking it for The Hangover. For one, Rowan Atkinson (as his most popular character, Mr Bean) makes an appearance, and Evander Holyfield — who famously had a piece of his ear bitten off in a heavyweight bout with Mike Tyson — gets his ear chewed in a fight.
Yeah, we're equally confused.
The movie follows four guys and one girl who travel to Macau, the gambling capital of China, for a vacation.
Crazy things happen along the way, but eventually one of the group's members go missing, as the others try their best to save him.
The movie is Atkinson's latest reprisal of his role as Mr Bean, which won him global recognition in the '90s.
According to the actor, he resorted mainly to body language to communicate with his co-stars, since he can't speak Mandarin. We can only imagine this seemed most in character as Mr Bean, who often speaks in grunts and mumbles in his series, anyway.
Top Funny Comedian will only be available in China for now.
Looks like what happens in China, stays in China.
Yvette is a Viral Content Reporter at Mashable Asia. She was previously reporting for BBC's Singapore bureau and Channel NewsAsia.
