Upright Citizens Brigade - The Complete First Season
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Actor: Amy Poehler, Del Close, Ian Roberts, Matt Besser, Matt WalshBrand: Upright
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 222 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Comedy Central
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DVD Review: Has its moments, but average....
Summary: 3 Stars
I saw a few of the UCB's stuff on youtube and Comedy Central years back, and I thought it was pretty stupid. I decided to rent the first season to give it a try again. It was better than my first opinion, but it wasn't anything fantastic. It had some wickedly funny moments (the guy who "appears" in Star Wars and Out of Africa is really quite funny, along with the wedding rehearsal sketch), but it has some really tepid stuff, like the linking material with the four members in a spaceship controlling the universe. The opening of the show is also quite tedious and borderline stupid. The Saigon Suicide Show, while a great title for an episode, seems like it goes on forever, and is not particularly funny. There's a sketch where an architecture firm is in a forest (which is funny, and reminscent of a Python sketch where Terry Jones has to walk to a flying lesson through a forest), but the UCB version constantly mentions that they're in a forest, as opposed to Python, who never mention it and just let it happen (which makes it funnier and more surreal). The series has a tinge of smugness to it, a symptom of 90's comedy. One thing about this series which is surprisingly good is that it doesn't have a lot of cuts in it. Usually sketch shows like this are filled with unnecessary cuts and pointless graphics, and this season, at least, has none of that. Some of the framing/composition for the show is quite good, especially considering it's a sketch show. It's not something one normally expects in an outing like this.
The three main actors (Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh) are decent, but they are awfully one note after a while, simply playing another character in the same manner as they did their other characters. The biggest surprise is the absolutely adorable Amy Poehler. Like many, I've only known her for her SNL stuff, and that's not a great standard, as SNL reeks to the bowels of hell these days (and has reeked for quite some time). Poehler here gets to play numerous characters, and her performances are not as one note like her fellow cast members. She shows why people really respond to her, as she has real acting talent.
I'm glad I revisted this stuff, and while I'm not a convert, Upright Citizens Brigade has its moments.
Description of Upright Citizens Brigade - The Complete First Season
Sketch comedy show revolves around the Upright Citizens Brigade, an underground organization "with no government ties and unlimited resources" dedicated to creating and monitoring chaos from their secure underground base. The show?s sketches depict chaotic or bizarre events in the world, events which are often directly engineered by the UCB. Another defining feature of the show is a series of real-world pranks, which tied in with the show's theme. Usually run at the end of each episode, these hidden-camera pranks feature the cast (as either the central UCB characters or other characters from that day's episode) interacting with real strangers.Bestsellers in DVD
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