The Mighty Boosh: The Complete Season 1
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Actor: Julian Barratt, Michael Fielding, Noel Fielding, Rich FulcherBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 224 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-07-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Worldwide
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- Howard and Vince, two workers in a run-down zoo, are often called upon to put their jobs before their pride. That often means dressing up as animals and sitting in cages because their boss, American entrepreneur Bob Fossil, cant afford any real animals. Vince accepts the situation happily, quite in contrast to his grandiose, tweed-wearing colleague. But they often have to leave their jobs to go on
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Summary: 5 Stars
Sometimes I wonder what they have in the water in England. First they produced "Monty Python," and now they have "The Mighty Boosh."
And while the basic description (two guys have wacky adventures at zoo) sounds like a slightly-out-of-the-ordinary sitcom, the reality is anything but. "The Mighty Boosh: The Complete Season 1" is a sitcom drizzled with acid and punched through with the surreal, where the most mundane activities become freakishly bizarre. Lots of raunchy humor, silly puppets, songs and journeys into other realms -- it's a head-trip, and you'll love every second of it.
It takes place in a mildly run-down zoo called "the Zooniverse," run by the deranged manager Bob Fossil (Rich Fulcher) and with the awkward cream-poet Howard Moon (Julian Barratt) and flamboyant wacky Vince Noir (Noel Fielding) working as zookeepers. The bane of Howard and Vince's existence: the evil and sinister owner Bainbridge.
First off, Bob decides to use nude photos of Howard's "freak" body to blackmail him into fighting a kangaroo. Probable result: death by disembowelment, especially since Howard is a pathetic boxer, and Vince's attempts to toughen him up aren't quite enough. Will true love for Mrs. Gideon inspire Howard to victory, or will Vince's magic dust vision (courtesy of the shaman Naboo) reveal the way to kill-a-roo?
And yeah, it gets weirder after that. Way weirder.
Vince and Howard's bizare escapades continue throughout the season: they set out to rescue vanished animals that may have been captured by the evil Bainbridge, venture into the arctic to find the giant sapphire Egg of Mantumbi, seek to save the zoo from destruction by finding the former owner in the Jungle Room, explore the world of authorial fame (involving a wad of bubblegum and a black-magic crocodile), and grapple with the Spirit of Jazz to save an electronica band.
And when the talking ape Bollo is dying, Howard is forced to dress in a gorilla costume to preserve zoo funding -- only to be mistakenly taken when the Grim Reaper comes. Vince is his only hope (if he can stop focusing on his hair). And when the boys have to take Ivan the bear to an animal prison, they run afoul of... the Hitcher.
Few shows revel in the utterly, unapologetically bizarre the way "The Mighty Boosh" does -- the entire first season is awash in surreal twists (a tiny techno club for mice), running gags, random musical interludes (including arctic hip-hop) and freakish sight gags ("As the saying goes, you are what you eat... and I'm freakin' cheese!"). Though it has the external trappings of normalcy, there is not a single scene that is not in some way surreal.
Each episode starts with a seemingly normal sitcom dilemma, but then the plot rapidly mutates into a string of strange occurrences, usually with tongue planted so far in cheek that you'll probably never see it again. Even the incomprehensible jokes (why is Howard dressed like Gandalf?) are hilarious. It's also pretty brilliantly written, with countless quotables ("It's impossible to be unhappy in a poncho"), tasteless jokes, and gloriously tongue-in-cheek dialogue ("Some say he is the devil himself. Others say he is a man pretending to be the devil with green makeup and special lighting").
But the crowning touch is Barrett and Fielding. Howard is rather fuddy-duddy, awkward and considers himself artistic, while Vince is dandyish, arrogant and has the attention span of a gnat -- and both actors are brilliant at bringing these guys to life. And Fulcher is horrendously, disgustingly awesome as the offensive zoo manager, who never knows the animal names ("hairy Russian carpet-guy") and abuses schoolchildren and Howard alike.
Surreal, trippy and utterly bizarre, "The Mighty Boosh: The Complete Season 1" is one of those wonderfully bizarre shows doesn't even need a laugh track. I have to kiss you passionately on the mouth!
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MIGHTY BOOSH:COMPLETE SSN1 - DVD MovieCalling the British television comedy The Mighty Boosh eccentric is entirely accurate--it is, after all, a series that features a vicious boxing kangaroo and a man made entirely out of used bubble gum, among countless other characters--but the label doesn?t make room for the fact that it?s also boundlessly energetic and funny, which is proven in each of the eight episodes from its 2004 debut season. The brainchild of stars Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding, who developed the show in numerous TV, radio, and live stage shows, and produced by Steve Coogan, The Mighty Boosh focuses on zookeepers Howard Moon and Vince Noir (Barratt and Fielding, respectively) who, in each episode, must contend with their certifiably insane employer (Rich Fulcher), a horde of animal-related problems, and their own obsessions and delusions. The stories, however, are simply a framework on which to hang off-kilter musical numbers, tangential and impossible plotlines (Howard and Vince travel to the Arctic to prove their manhood in "Tundra"; Howard accidentally creates the aforementioned bubble gum man in "Charlie"), and scads of memorably bizarre characters, most of which are played by Barratt and Fielding. Boosh is not for all audiences--those who favor more genteel UK comedy may find this too scattershot to follow--but its unique blend of Doctor Who-like fantasy/camp, 1970s psychedelic children?s TV, and Mr. Show/Human Giant-style sketch comedy is sure to find its share of supporters on both sides of the Atlantic. Extras are as anarchic as the show itself--Barratt and Fielding are at the center of raucous commentaries on four episodes that are rife with in-jokes, while two featurettes provide background on the show?s setting and production and the show?s journey from live performance to TV. --Paul Gaita
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