Bottom - Not Another Half-Arsed DVD Set
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Actor: Adrian Edmondson, Christopher Ryan, Lee Cornes, Rik Mayall, Steven O'DonnellBrand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Roger Fenna
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, 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: Better in small doses
Summary: 5 Stars
Surprisingly, I didn't like `The Young Ones'. I just didn't get into it as much as everyone else seemed to. So you can understand why I was a little skittish about `Bottom'. It had been recommended to me by Netflix & it wasn't until I'd seen a preview for the show that I decided to give it a whirl. I'm glad I gave it the chance.
Bottom follows the antics of Richie & Eddie, both of them complete losers. They spend their days mostly staying inside their dilapidated home, with Eddie remaining blitzed & Richie trying to scheme up ways to get rich & get birds. No matter how hard Richie scheme, nothing ever comes to fruition. (Mostly because despite his attempts to improve himself, he's just too lazy to put any real effort into it!)
This show really is one of the best of its era. The humor is low brow & that may cause many to automatically dismiss it, but they'd be losing out on a real gem here. Mayall & Edmondson are really at their best when they're playing bottom of the barrel characters.
I'll admit, this isn't a DVD set that you should watch one episode after another. At least not at first- if you are new to the show (as I was), the humor is best appreciated if you watch only one or two episodes in a sitting. (Plus it makes the set last longer, which is definitely a bonus.) Since the entire series is in this set, there's no need to rush out & purchase any other DVDs- you have it all here.
Anyone who loves low brow humor of any nationality should really love this set. I mean come on... who couldn't laugh at the sight of a man taped to the ceiling?
DVD Review: Full_Arsed
Summary: 4 Stars
I recently purchased the DVD Full Bottom: Not Another Half-Arsed DVD Set and I have to agree with the subtitle. Totally Full-Arsed. This writing and acting duo is best known in the US from the 1980s series the Young Ones. Full Bottom originally aired between 1991 and 1995 in the UK, when Adrian Edmonson and long-time partner-in-crime Rik Mayall delivered 3 seasons of mayhem for the BBC. Opening with a stripper music theme that sets up their pathetic non-existent love lives. They illustrate a perfectly dysfunctional union, the Odd Couple meets the Three Stooges. It shouldn't work but it does. Over the top physical stunts and an earnest commitment to character pull the audience in. It is easy to overlook how good the work on this series is while we are soaking in the clueless optimism wrapped up in an array of impossible Sad Sack scenarios. All in all, a fun wild ride.DVD Review: Brilliant
Summary: 5 Stars
This is slapstick at its best, with more 'slap' than 'stick'.
Completely over the top, radical, often very physical comedy with a very twisted slant.
A little less weird than The Young Ones (not a bad thing) but just as frenetic. In my opinion it retains the best elements of the former, while adding a hefty dose of new envelope-pushing crazy antics.
Fantastic viewing, just beware the R-rated language if young ones (no pun intended) are around.
In short, Eddie and Richie are desperately pathetic housemates, and all they have is each other. But that doesn't stop them from trying to upstage, lie, cheat or steal from each other until the cows come home.
Cue brilliant craziness and the kind of mental comedy that is impossible to find these days with broadcasters neutering their material for fear of offending anyone...
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.
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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