Bottom - Not Another Half-Arsed DVD Set

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Actor: Adrian Edmondson, Christopher Ryan, Lee Cornes, Rik Mayall, Steven O'Donnell
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Roger Fenna
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 30 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-30
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner

DVD Reviews of Bottom - Not Another Half-Arsed DVD Set

DVD Review: Good old wreckless fun!
Summary: 4 Stars

the whole dvd set is pretty much enjoyable. you get rik mayall and adrian edmondson's old comic antics. all the episodes are all quite amusing, very entertaining humor. i know this is a whole other comedy show, but i find the young ones more enjoyable to watch. still bottom is a great show to watch if you love wreckless, fun comedy!

DVD Review: Not as funny as 'The Young One's'
Summary: 3 Stars

If you liked the English alternative comedy 'The Young One's' or 'The New Statesmen,' you'll probably enjoy this series, just not as much. Rik Mayall, who in real life is no doubt a wonderful person, has made a career playing REALLY annoying characters (Drop Dead Fred); in this series he takes that role to new lows.
In short, don't watch this series with someone who does not appreciate the more sophisticated crass-and-vulgar style of humor.

DVD Review: High class low brow
Summary: 5 Stars

Anyone can be gross, adolescent, and violent, but it takes real talent and intellegence to actually pull it off and make it genuinely funny. With Bottom, Young One's alumnus Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson have accomplished just that. They introduce us to the lives of Richie Richard, and Edward Elisabeth Hitler, two utter pathetic people, who do little more then clutter up the gene pool and waste oxygen that would be much better used elsewhere. The two live out their meaningless existances thinking about little more then breasts, television and drinking, pausing every so often to beat the tar out of one another.
Given that description it seems an unlikely likable duo, but they pull it off as well as any comedy pair in history. It's filthey, foul, utterly chaotic and as funny as anything that has ever crossed the pond. If you like British comedy and the Three Stooges or are a Young One's fan, you will definitely love this.

DVD Review: Bottom is tops!!
Summary: 4 Stars

Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson do another great show together, although their roles and the premise doesn't stray far from The Young Ones. In fact, it's almost like a sequel...but not quite. Rick plays Rich Richard, and Adrian plays Eddie Hitler, two geeks that are very similar to their characters in The Young Ones. Eddie seems to be the only one with a job or a major drinking problem. Rich is a useless waste of space who just wants to "have it off with some bird" which in American translates to "have sex with a girl". But with his character being so identical to Rick in The Young Ones, no girl will go near him, even when he douses himself with pharamones that he bought in an adult toy shop. Their constant struggle to co-exist and exist in the real world lands them in constant chaos, and at odds with everyone they encounter. Another TYO friend, Chris Ryan occasionally joins them in the role of Dave Hedgehog, who is another socally inept loser. Cowritten by Rik and Ade, the humor is often similar to TYO, but since they stick with the designated plot, this show's appeal is more widespread and easy to grasp. Good British humor. Loads of laughs. Often very silly. They still like to beat each other up, throw each other down stairs or drop refrigerators on each other...and basically just commit random acts of violence. And just about every episode ends up with either Rik or Ade getting punched, hit, kicked, electrocuted or shot....often by each other, but sometimes someone else gets the pleasure. If you like Rik and Ade in The Young Ones, you'll like them in this next-step-natural-extension called Bottom. Go try to "have it off with a bird", and whether you succeed or not, you will feel better with the few laughs that Bottom delivers.

DVD Review: Bottoms Up!
Summary: 5 Stars

A hilarious 4 part DVD of the best British show ever to be made - Bottom.

The comic geniuses Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall are so funny as the lovable losers Eddy Hilter and Richard Richard.
The bonus material of bloopers are great, I haven't laughed so much in a long time from watching a comedy.

For anyone who is a fan of this genre this disc is a must buy!

I have been searching for this show on DVD for ages and finally have it to watch over and over again.

Description of Bottom - Not Another Half-Arsed DVD Set

Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson were the creators and stars of 1980s cult smash and BBC best-selling DVD The Young Ones. In this follow up series, they bring you Richie Richard and Eddie Hitler - two obnoxious loners desperately seeking love, money and friendship, and failing to find any of it. As they pursue their doomed quest, they experiment with pheremones, join a dating service, and dress up for halloween...as a devil and a banana.

DVD Features:
Biographies
Featurette:1. Early stand-up comedy featuring Rik and Ade as The Dangerous Brothers2. The Dangerous Brothers take on Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie3. Rik reads some very intellectual poetry
Outtakes:Early stand-up comedy by Rik and Ade

British comedians Rik Mayall and Adrian "Ade" Edmondson vaulted to fame in The Young Ones, a high-energy but decidedly lowbrow TV show about clashing roommates. Mayall and Edmondson went on to create Bottom, playing Richie Richards (Mayall) and Eddie Hitler (Edmondson), two hapless dimwits floundering through life at the bottom of the social scale. Bottom provides plenty of the spastic slapstick and cartoon violence of The Young Ones, but the characters have greater dimension--even, possibly, a hint of soulfulness, which is always squashed at the first opportunity--and the dialogue has flights of loony wit ("You poor, sad, deformed urban pustule," declares Richie when Eddie resists going camping). Richie is a middle-aged virgin, high-strung, frustrated, yet possessed of eternal hope, while Eddie is phlegmatic and utterly without curiosity or ambition. They abuse, cheat, and steal from each other, yet seem inseparable. Many episodes feature no other characters; in one, they spend the entire half-hour trapped in a carriage at the top of a ferris wheel. It may seem peculiar to say this about a show in which two men have a contest to see who can put more custard in their underpants, but Richie and Eddie bear a striking resemblance to Vladmir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett's classic play Waiting for Godot. Without jobs or any real hope of a better life, they fritter their time in their grimy apartment trying to amuse themselves aimlessly, never succeeding in any of their schemes to get laid or make money. Fear not; any existential implications take a back seat to eye-poking and iron-skillet-head-smacking that the Three Stooges would admire. Full Bottom includes the entirety of the three Bottom series, 18 episodes in all. --Bret Fetzer

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