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Black Adder V - Back and Forth | 
 enlarge | Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray, Tim Mcinnerny, Patrick Allen
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 25762
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 55 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARDE1558D
ISBN: 0790760223
UPC: 794051155825
EAN: 9780790760223
ASIN: B00005A1SS
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Release Date: June 26, 2001
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/13/2005 Run time: 63 minutes Rating: Nr
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 Too bad it's the last October 23, 2008
D. Eric Lizza (Hermosa Beach, CA USA)
For fans of the series, Black Adder V will not let you down. Most of the characters from the original return in various forms and entertain as always. Will Black Adder continue to get the royal shaft, or will history at last lay some kindness in our intrepid "hero's" path? The only way to find out is to return once again to the hilarious world of the Black Adder.
 I couldn't even finish watching. November 17, 2005
skankersore (Texas)
8 out of 15 found this review helpful
Having seen the entire TV series, I rented from netflicks out of curiousity. This was nothing more than a masturbatory reveling in BA, Atkinson and Co.'s past glories. The clever character sarcasm and artistic melding of slapstic and intelligent humour is simply absent here. I was disappointed with this, and glad that Laurie moved on to win Emmy's in Dr. House, and Atkinson went on to Bean and Johnny English (both were great). But this, this is just plain crud. Don't buy. br / br /
 It couldn't be worse. January 11, 2005
Rhindle The Red (Rochester, NY USA)
12 out of 19 found this review helpful
It couldn't be worse. I mean that literally. That's not to say there isn't humor to be found here. In fact, my point is that this is, in fact, an occasionally amusing title. With this cast (Atkinson, Richardson, Laurie, Fry, McInnerny Robinson) it can't help but have SOME laughs. But it could have been so much more. It's obvious that by the time they came to slap together this little 'help save the Millenium Dome' project, writers Richard Curtis and Ben Elton had simply lost touch with the Blackadder of old. The characters don't quite ring true (even ones they had played before) and the situations seem very un-Blackadderish (to invent a word). We never have time to really get to know these incarnations of the Blackadder crew. If this were a stand alone film, I don't see how anyone could have found these jokes even remotely funny without a knowledge of Blackadder beforehand? One of the great things about the old Blackadders is that, even if you'd never seen one before, every episode was funny in its own right. You didn't need to know that Baldrick's pants were a constant source of humor to find the jokes amusing. But here everything is referring to running gags of the old shows, without a solid base to the jokes themselves. Nothing stands on its own. I don't think you could ring six good episodes out of these characters if you tried. There's nothing to them, they are just shadows of their predecessors. Just like this show.
Cute, But Is It Worth the Price....? April 19, 2003
Daniel V. Reilly (Upstate New York, United States)
52 out of 55 found this review helpful
Being a longtime fan of Rowan Atkinson's Blackadder, I snapped up this DVD as soon as it was released. Considering the vast amounts of extras most DVD's have, I generally avoid buying ones that aren't loaded with hours of viewing material. However, seeing that the box said the program was 55 minutes long, and knowing it would NEVER show up on TV, I figured what the hell.....p The actual content itself is about 31 minutes long, with an 18 minute long Baldrick's Diary (Which is really a making-of featurette), some witty Who's who in Blackadder Bios narrated by Actor Tony Robinson, and 5 minutes of Historical tidbits touching on spots visited by Blackadder Baldrick during the Film, also narrated by Robinson. There's also some trailers for other BBC DVD's.p The Film itself is more like an episode of the series writ somewhat larger; A modern-day Blackadder and his manservent Baldrick use a home-made time machine to visit various spots in history. The usual suspects return, including Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, and Miranda Richardson. There were a few chuckles, but no real laughs until the end-credits song. Hardly worth the price, especially since the description on the box seems to imply that the actual movie is an hour long, not that EVERTHING on the disc equals an hour. Blackadder completists will certainly buy it, and enjoy it, but it should have had either more content or a lower price point....
 Not the Place to Begin With Black Adder October 26, 2002
Michael Weber (Atlanta)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
While a total stranger to the Black Adder corpus can appreciate it, a lot of this lovely little poison valentine's fun comes from being familiar with the setup and the characters so that one can ALMOST predict the next line or situation... and then being delighted when the writers and cast give it some twist you hadn't predicted.pI must agree with another reviewer that the return to the court of Elizabeth I really doesn't work; it does indeed seem forced as if the actors no longer inhabit the characters, but rather are pretending to be their younger selves inhabiting the characters. (Does that make sense?)pOn the other hand, one of the funniest sequences in the production is in the Elizabethean time frame but without any of the series regulars save Blackadder himself, meeting up with Shakespeare, getting his autograph and then... Well, it's Very Funny. Even funnier if you thought Branagh's uncut Hamlet was a touch long.pThe Waterloo sequence is lovely, with a neat little Wizard of Oz reference.pAnd, of course, the ending(s) -- particularly the end ending,a it were -- an absolute delight for the Black Adder fan, with, of course, an appropriate version of the theme song vocal for the end credits.pThe extras on the disc, though a bit sparse, are appreciated, including a short making of documentary piece, with the writer director and actors all expressing themselves with wonderful clarity, and also including a couple of bits that were (mostly for the better, i think, funny as they are) edited out of the episode.pALso under the Special Features menu are cast biographies, recited, in character, by Baldrick. Unfortunately (and i don't know if it's a defect in the disc, itself, or in my APEX DVD player with the hacked firmware, or a combination), after the first few bios have played, the last few syllables or words of each bio were cut off as it skipped to the next.
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