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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: Video
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 37913
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 63 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0790760215
UPC: 794051155832
EAN: 9780790760216
ASIN: B00005A1TT
Release Date: May 15, 2001
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Condition: Brand new, factory sealed and perfect VHS tape! LOC2
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Description
The Blackadder cast returns after a 10 year absence for this special. The new 21st century Lord Blackadder and his scabby, but loyal, servant Baldrick wreak havoc as they tumble through the past in a time machine, with disastrous consequences.
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 Sad parody of themselves June 8, 2004
J. Bosch (Sacramento, CA USA)
Watching this, I was embarrassed for the actors. It was like watching an aging rock band reunion when all the members had forgotten how to play. I've been a Black Adder fan since first seeing the show in the early nineties, and I'd hoped for some of the old Adder magic. After all, Corporal Punishment, from the Black Adder IV series, was one of the funniest half-hours ever produced for television. pSadly, this waste of tape had very little of that, instead mostly relying on puerile toilet humor and superficial unfunny one-liners.pIf they get the urge to do another reunion, I hope they have a lie down until the urge passes.
Give it a rest!! April 11, 2003
Robert Kelley (Westport, MA United States)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
If there exists a singular proof that you can't re-warm a souffle', this is it. The writing is thin beyond belief, as though the purpose of Elton and Curtis is to kill off their distinguished child. The cast deliver brief, set-piece lines that appear to be plucked out of former episodes...a sort of "Best Of Black Adder". It is, in short, little better than the worst of Baldric's many "cunning plans." I watched it once, and chucked it without re-winding.
 Great potential, little product March 22, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Originally created to be shown in the Millennium Dome, Blackadder Back and Forth is a victim of the Millennium Fever which afflicted the nation during 1999. Instead of another classic Rowan Atkinson - Tony Robinson double act, we are treated to about 30 mins of cliched plot, weak dialogue and a film that is the poor relation of all the Blackadder series seen before. pThe threadbare plot surrounds Blackadder's attempts to win a bet with the guests at his Millennium party, the challenge being that they will each give him 10,000 if he can travel back in time and bring back various items to prove that the feat has been accomplished. Baldrick has built a time machine which, as far as Blackadder knows, acts as a trapdoor to his basement where, amongst the junk, he has hidden various items that look old enough to be passed off as fakes (one of the requested items being the Duke of Wellington's boots). Unfortunately, Baldrick built the time machine from a Leonardo Da Vinci's textbook which, somewhat unsurprisingly, means that it works thus he and Blackadder are catapulted to various different periods of time, ranging from an encounter with Shakespeare to Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo. The upshot of this is that they have to get back to 1999 in time for midnight.pUnfortunately that is about all you get as far as plot. There's a couple of smutty jokes about various maidens and the occasional witty retort from Blackadder but, generally, this is one which you shouldn't rush out to get from the local video shop/cinema. In an effort to fill up the rest of the running time, you are treated (I use the term loosely) to a "behind the scenes" look at bits edited from the film whilst various members of the cast and production team witter inanely at the screen. If you've not seen any Blackadder before then you're better off skipping this one and going for the original series, if you have seen them before then this is a huge disappointment. I'm left lamenting the paltry amount of time which seems to have been put into this project as, with more time and effort and less concern for jumping on the Millennial bandwagon, this could have been brilliant. Instead it is shoddy and badly constructed.
 It is still very funny January 10, 2002
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Don't think, just sit and watch it....
This Is What Got Me Hooked on Black Adder! January 6, 2002
Jean Heather Akins (Martinez, CA United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was watching PBS one afternoon and they showed a promo on Black Adder V - Back and Forth to be aired that very night at 10 p.m. Since I've always liked stories about time travel, I tuned in to watch it. Wow! I thoroughly enjoyed this. It made me want to view ALL the other Black Adder episodes. A friend loaned me one of her videos, and I enjoyed that, too. I plan to watch all the others.
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