Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete First Season
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Actor: Cynthia Caponera, Jason Alexander, Larry Charles, Linda Bates (II), Mark BeltzmanBrand: EMI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 360 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Product features:
- He's got it all, a loving wife, good friends, a successful career, a good home. What could go wrong for Larry David?CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM stars "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David as himself in an unsparing, cinema verite depiction of his life. Featuring real life celebrities playing themselves, the episodes are improvised by the actors from storylines by David.Running Time: 390 min. Format: DVD
DVD Reviews of Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete First Season
DVD Review: Smug smug smug smug. I am Larry David and I am super smug.
Summary: 1 Stars
Okay, I don't know what it is about this show that I'm not "getting", but this show is consistently self-aggrandizing, pretentious, not funny, and downright boring. As someone who watches a lot of TV, it boggles my mind that I have had so many people recommend this series to me, when I can't even figure out what is supposed to be funny about it. Where are the jokes? I couldn't tell you.
What I got out of this series is that it is Larry David's ultimate goal to make himself look as good as possible. He has a (super annoying) trophy wife, friends who are all decades younger than he is, he lives in a big fancy house with a big fancy ego. His "thing" seems to be that, in many scenes, he is attempting to point out "absurdities" in everyday situations... something that is normally quite funny. My other favourite comedies are shows that are set up just like this. But what he continually points out is never absurd and he always comes across as being quite thick. Random (paraphrased) example:
[they are at some party, to which Larry David's character brought a sponge cake]
Some guy: Hey, where did you get this cake?
LD: It doesn't matter, the bakery is closing.
Guy: Okay, well... which bakery?
LD: It's a moot point, it's going to close down!
Guy: It's not a moot point, just tell me where it is!
[...continues for way too long.]
This scene could have been avoided by the Guy just saying "If it is closing, it is not closed yet and I would like to purchase a cake" or whatever it is that normal, rational people say in situations like this. But for some reason Larry David has this annoying need to make himself the most observant, poignant, quirky guy in the room. And it just does not work because he is not observant, poignant, or quirky. He is smug. He is smug and his smugness comes across in absolutely everything that he says and does in this show, and I find it intolerably pretentious.
DVD Review: Awesome show... weak season
Summary: 3 Stars
It's funny, most shows are awesome on their first season then they lose their thunder over time. I love "The Office" and "30 Rock" but this season has been very unfunny, the simpsons and family guy also lost their humor in my honest opinion. But Curb seems to have started very weak and got funnier and funnier as it went along.
I downloaded all 7 seasons, legally, an figured the first season had to be really good but I hardly found myself laughing. It did have it's moments, of course: any seen with Larry and Richard Lewis is golden, especially the seen where they are moving the furniture for the blind man but all in all the first season kinda sucks. I only found myself chuckling a few times, never really laughing out load and just saying to myself: "geez, what an a-hole" about all the jerky characters in the show. I even thought the eairly seasons of seinfeld were like this to an extent (as in, showing how jerky people are) and I never find this funny, it's just sad. Personally, I liked Seinfeld more after Larry David left in season 7.
Anyways, if you want to get into this show, start from season 5 and work on. Season 2 has some really funny episodes ("the car salesman) but their are also some really crappy ones, season 3 is finding the show finding it's comedic ground, season 4 is when the show first gets solidly funny and every season beyond that is amazing.
Curb really is a show that gets better as you go along
DVD Review: Like Seinfeld on steroids
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the most gut-bustingly funny show I've watched in recent memory. It's got all the awkward social situations and cynicism/misanthropy of Seinfeld, but taken to a whole 'notha levo. It's great that the four-letter words aren't censored. It is a much more adult show all around. If you like dark, cynical humor, or if you liked Seinfeld at all, you will love this show.DVD Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete First Season
Summary: 5 Stars
HILARIOUS! That's all I need to say. If you were a fan of "George Costanza" from Seinfeld, you'll love the "real thing".DVD Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Summary: 5 Stars
Hilarious. You can see that Larry David was the genius behind the Seinfeld series.
Description of Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete First Season
He's got it all, a loving wife, good friends, a successful career, a good home... What could go wrong for Larry David? CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM stars "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David as himself in an unsparing, cinema verite depiction of his life. Featuring real life celebrities playing themselves, the episodes are improvised by the actors from storylines by David.Like its fellow HBO series Sex and the City, this half-hour comedy broke some TV rules and went from critics' darling to an award-winning series in three years. Curb Your Enthusiasm is the brainchild of star-creator Larry David who co-created Seinfeld and was the basis for the easily rattled George Costanza (who was played by Jason Alexander). Like George, David has a tendency to speak too much, blow things out of proportion, and, most often, fail in the end (and often liking it that way). David's new show is also like its predecessor: it's about "nothing" except following the day-to-day ramblings of a sometime writer and comic (this time in L.A.). Eternal questions stemming from universal daily dilemmas are honed to perfect comedic absurdity. A notable exception is the show is only scripted by plot; much of the action is improvised. The first season starts with a one-hour mockumentary following David's return to stand-up for the first time in years; the other 10 episodes follow a more traditional sit-com setup.
David plays "himself" (as does his friend, Richard Lewis) although his manager and wife are played by comedians Jeff Garlin and Cheryl Hines. Although this first season is a comedic gem, one can't take more than an episode or two at a time--it's acidic, biting comedy. The episodes are often built like a house of cards, which the irritable David will surely collapse by the end. Like another caustic TV character, Dabney Colman's Buffalo Bill (1983-84), Larry David is not for everybody. --Doug Thomas
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