Father Ted - Complete Series 1
by Declan Lowney
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Actor: Ardal O'Hanlon, Dermot Morgan, Frank Kelly, Pauline McLynn, Tony GuilfoyleDirector: Declan Lowney
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Arthur Mathews
Cinematographer: Eugene O'Connor
Producer: Geoffrey Perkins
Producer: Mary Bell
Writer: Graham Linehan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 148 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Product features:
- Join Fathers Ted, Dougal and Jack, three Irish priests exiled by the Church to their own private Purgatory, a twisted lump of rock called Craggy Island, as penance for indulging in their daft vices. Features all episodes from series one.Running Time: 148 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?TELEVISION Rating:?NR Age:?794051156426 UPC:?794051156426 Manufacturer No:?E1
DVD Reviews of Father Ted - Complete Series 1
DVD Review: Funny Father Ted
Summary: 5 Stars
Hilarious send up of the Irish catholic priesthood. Definitely, not politically correct, just very funny.DVD Review: Wretched Indeed!
Summary: 1 Stars
How bad can this be? There is a laugh-track, for god's sake. Read Joseph Haschka's wonderful (and only other one-star) review for "Father Ted - Series 1." I wish I'd read Haschka before ordering this totally abysmal nonsense. Digging ditches is more fun than watching this boring, ugly, dreadful garbage. There is a noted lack of humor with Father Ted's core fan(atic)s, as displayed by the amount of negative comments this little review garners. Guess I'm not interested enough in priests. If y'all have such a great sense of humor, get over yourselves, lighten up, and realize one person here doesn't like it. Period.
"Father Ted" is boring, dull as dishwater, surrounded by nutjobs with nothing to do. No imagination went into this series. It strings old cliches about rural people and retarded priests into a gob of nothingness. The Catholic Church is beside the point entirely. This is only for those who think loggers are called the fu-fu nom de plume "lumberjacks," who think rural people are all inbred and stupid. This is not about interesting eccentrics of any sort, just bizarre and boring distortions.
If this show is extremely popular in Ireland, this may be due to a lot of anger. I sure don't want to follow a laugh track to know where the "funny" parts are. "Father Ted" attempts "Monty Python," but it's just cheap, with a dull, badly put together set, poor production values, and lacking a story to tell, except to inflict a kind of hellish purgatory on viewers. Some compare it to the harmless and rotund "Vicar of Dibly," but there is no commonality. Rather, it's a surreal nightmare, playing to the lowest common denominator. Do yourself a favor and don't believe all these positive, totally misleading reviews - it can only be recommended for those totally obsessed with Catholic priests, senile, crazy, or otherwise. Don't waste your hard-earned money on this grotesque drivel.
DVD Review: A towering inferno of comedy
Summary: 5 Stars
Ted is probably the funniest thing ever likely to be produced on television anywhere in my lifetime. Ever. If you want to start a conversation with someone in Ireland, with the potential to lead to insults and/or fisticuffs, you could stick to the more mundane territory of politics or religion, but why not go a different way..start a heated discussion on the best episode of Ted!
The problem with Ted is that, if like me, you have watched each episode of each series (and the Xmas special "they tell me its the biggest lingerie section in Ireland...") dozens of times; your favourite is constantly changing. Its like trying to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, when you think you are there, it feckin well moves again. That's the beauty of Ted; you can watch it time and time again and always see new stuff.
The clever thing about, and also what in my view makes it superior to Fawlty Towers in every way) it also its cultural setting. Ireland really is like that sometimes, especially "The Country". The "setting" for Ted (Craggy Island) is generally accepted to be the Aran Islands off Galway (although the parochial house and many of the scenes are actually in Clare). Two of the Aran Islands, Innismore and Innismaan are perpetually locked in a "battle" to as who can claim to be the real "Craggy Island". Which in itself sounds like a plot from Ted.
Episodes like "The Passion of St Tibullus", the one with the Holy Stone of Clonrichert and those where Bishop Len Brennan has a son are all based on actual events, and I've been to rural Irish fairs where they almost do have a Tunnel O'Goats (no Spider Baby though).
My current favourite is probably "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse", because I love his character so much, "don't you call me Len you little bollix".
There has never been anything quite like Ted, before or after. It's nice to see so many American fans, because the humour doesn't really translate in all its true subtlety, even to England. I'm English and Protestant and my Irish Catholic wife tells me I cant understand how close to the fabric of Irish life Ted exists.
If you want a little more true Irish humour (to make those who claim Ted is Irish, not Anglo-Irish in origin, happy), I might suggest you track down episodes of "Killiniskully", written by, and starring, Pat Shortt (Tom in the I-shot JR t-shirt) which also gives a flavour of Irish humour from "The Country".
DVD Review: When life makes you just weep, get out the Father Ted dvds!
Summary: 5 Stars
When life is getting you down, don't go "downtown", get out the Father Ted dvds, curl up with a cuppa tea (or have a few snorts) and laugh till you nearly wet your pants over this wonderfully silly and irreverent series. Oh, I might mention... this is NOT for those types who take everything too seriously. It's just glorious, naughty FUN!DVD Review: GREAT SERIES
Summary: 5 Stars
FIRST SIX SHOWS ARE GREAT YOU'LL NEVER STOP LAUGHING AND YOU WILL WATCH THIS MORE THAN ONCE. THE SECOND YEAR DROPS OFF A LITTLE BIT BUT IS STILL VERY FUNNY
Description of Father Ted - Complete Series 1
Join Fathers Ted, Dougal and Jack, three Irish priests exiled by the Church to their own private Purgatory, a twisted lump of rock called Craggy Island, as penance for indulging in their daft vices. Features all episodes from series one.Father Ted is one of those rare sitcoms that defies categorization--it owes as much to Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett as it does to Monty Python--and its blend of satire, character comedy, and anarchic surrealism has made it a cult favorite around the world.
Exiled to remote Craggy Island, Father Ted Crilley shares a house with the breathtakingly stupid Father Dougal and the constantly inebriated Father Jack, who has a small vocabulary and a taste for furniture polish. Their housekeeper, Mrs. Doyle, takes care of them with a never-ending supply of tea and sandwiches: "Go on now, Father, won't you try one? They're diagonal." Together they fight boredom by dressing up as Elvis, startling ducks at the fair, and provoking nuns.
This DVD contains the entire first season of Father Ted--six episodes of inspired lunacy including a visit from the excruciatingly dull Father Stone, Mrs. Doyle's solemn recitation of all the bad language in Ted's favorite novel, and the death and resurrection of Father Jack. Packed with great lines and hilarious characters, Father Ted gets better with every viewing. --Simon Leake
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