Black Adder - The Complete Collector's Set

Black Adder - The Complete Collector's Set
by Martin Shardlow

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Actor: Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray, Robert East, Rowan Atkinson, Tim McInnerny
Director: Martin Shardlow
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 860 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner

DVD Reviews of Black Adder - The Complete Collector's Set

DVD Review: 5 star all the way
Summary: 5 Stars

Maybe it takes a certain mental makeup to fully appreciate how wonderfully funny Black Adder is. What Frank Zappa called " a well defined sense of the bizarre". And I suppose we should be grateful for those who don't get it as it creates a category for the rest of us to feel specialized in.
There's a 1 star review somewhere in this mass of positivism from a guy in Germany. One wishes for a way to e-mail him Basil Fawlty . But what can you expect from a country that loves David Hasselhoff.

DVD Review: The Best Comedy of All Time!
Summary: 5 Stars

I got this as a gift for my husband on Valentines Day. What's more romantic than cuddling up on the couch and watching Black Adder? The set includes the Blackadder movie, which is a nice bonus.

DVD Review: Taking Python's Crown.
Summary: 5 Stars

For years I loved Monty Python, and still do. Then one day along came Blackadder
The Blackadder. (Medieval era.)
I must admit this First series written by Richard Curtiss and Rowan Atkinson, did little to change my views that Python Rules. Although I did like the episode, "The Queen of Spains Beard" but all that changed with series two.
Six episodes.
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The writers were now Richard Curtiss and Ben Elton.
Blackadder 2.(Elizabethan era.)
I love the way that two of the stories tip the wink towards Python, Tom Bakers Pirate has a "Dead Parrot" on his shoulder. And in the last episode, "Chains" Blackadder mentions "The Spanish Inquistion".
I never expected that.
Six episodes.
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Blackadder 3.(Regency era.)
This is my favourite series mainly because of Robbie Coltrane's Dr Johnson portrayal in the episode,"Ink And Incapability", no matter how many times I see that, "Dream" sequence I crack up.
"Baldrick who gave you permission to turn into an Alsatian".
Six episodes.
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Blackadder 4.(World War 1.)
This series has many great sequences too. I particulary like the episode with Rik Mayall as the glamourous flyer Flashheart. Who keeps calling Blackadder slack bladder. And, the Ending of episode six still brings a lump to my throat even after all the times I've watched it.
Six episodes.
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Also included in this release is, "Blackadders Christmas Carol",(Victorian era) which surprisingly for the first half of the episode shows a nice kind Blackadder. Until the nasty normal Blackadder genes surface. "Back and Forth" (Contempory era) where Baldrick has invented of all things a time machine!. There's also a host of extras.
Come and watch the changing fortunes of the Blackadder dynasty through the ages. In the first two series he's riding high in society. Then somewhere between series 2 and 3 his family fortunes must have taken a tumble. As he is no longer almost equal to the Monarch but a humble (although Royal) butler.
A worthy purchase for all lovers of humour, and cunning plans.
So I say thank you Blackadder I NEVER thought any show would take the crown of Python.........but you did!!

DVD Review: Great Video
Summary: 5 Stars

The Black Adder - The Complete Collector's Set was bought for my wife and she has enjoyed it immensely. Great value and I highly recommend it if you are a Black Adder fan.

DVD Review: Rowan Atkinson at His Best
Summary: 5 Stars

I purchased "Black Adder the Complete Collectiion" DVD for my son as a Christmas gift. Though he already owns the video tape of this series, he says the DVD's have so much more: historical background, commentary, etc. He loves this series (as do I). Thia is undoubtedly Rowan Atkinson's best role. He is very witty as Blackadder, though his elaborate schemes never quite come off.

Description of Black Adder - The Complete Collector's Set

One of the best comedy series ever to emerge from England, Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of World War I. In his pre-Bean triumph, British comic actor Rowan Atkinson played all five versions of Edmund, beginning with the villainous and cowardly Duke of Edinburgh, whose scheming mind and awful haircut seem to stand him in good stead to become the next Archbishop of Canterbury--a deadly occupation if ever there was one. Among tales of royal dethronings, Black Death, witch smellers (who root out spell makers with their noses), and ghosts, Edmund is a perennial survivor who never quite gets ahead in multiple episodes.

One of the best comedy series ever to emerge from England, Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of World War I. In his pre-Bean triumph, British comic actor Rowan Atkinson played all five versions of Edmund, beginning with the villainous and cowardly Duke of Edinburgh, whose scheming mind and awful haircut seem to stand him in good stead to become the next Archbishop of Canterbury--a deadly occupation if ever there was one. Among tales of royal dethronings, Black Death, witch smellers (who root out spell makers with their noses), and ghosts, Edmund is a perennial survivor who never quite gets ahead in multiple episodes. Jump to the Elizabethan era and Atkinson picks up the saga as Lord Edmund, who is perpetually courting favor from mad Queen Bess (Miranda Richardson) and is always walking a tightrope from which he can either gain the world or lose his head. Subjected to bizarre services for her majesty (at one point, Edmund is asked to do for potatoes what Sir Walter Raleigh did for tobacco), Edmund--as with his ancestor--can never quite fulfill his larger ambitions. The next incarnation we encounter is in late-18th-century Regency England. This time, Blackadder is a mere butler to the idiotic Prince Regent (Hugh Laurie in a brilliantly buffoonish performance) and is caught in various misadventures with Samuel Johnson, Shakespearean actors, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and William Pitt the younger. With a brief stop in Victorian London for a Christmas special, the series concludes with several episodes set during the Great War. The new Edmund is a career Army officer, but a scoundrel all the same. Shirking his duties whenever possible and taking advantage of any opportunity for undeserved reward, this final, deeply sour, and very funny Blackadder negotiates survival among a cadre of fools and dimwits. No small mention can be made of Atkinson's supporting cast, easily among the finest comic performers of their generation: besides Laurie and Richardson, Stephen Fry, Tony Robinson, and Tim McInnerny. --Tom Keogh

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