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 enlarge | Actor: Black Adder
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 6564
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 200
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: DE1560D
ISBN: 079076024X
UPC: 794051156020
EAN: 9780790760247
ASIN: B00005A1SU
Release Date: June 26, 2001
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 Rowan Atkinson is positively brilliant! November 24, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I positively LOVE British comedy... Benny Hill, Fawlty Towers, `Allo `Allo, Mr. Bean, Monty Python, Mind Your Language etc. The best of these is Black Adder.
Black Adder turns history upside down on its head. Forget whatever you learnt of the Tudors because you will have to re-learn it when you watch the "real history" of Black Adder.
For those who are unfamiliar with this series, it may take you a while to understand the nuances and "read between the lines". But this ability to understand the humor will increase as you watch the series. A general underlying truth is that each episode gets funnier as you move forward in this series.
Rowan Atkinson is positively brilliant! Honestly speaking, I think that his performance in this series is just head and shoulders above his comedy in Mr. Bean.
The best of the bunch July 14, 2007
Blackadder is some of the funniest (if not THE funniest) british comedy I've ever seen... and that includes Monty Python. Blackadder II is Rowan Atkinson and the rest of the cast of pseudo-regulars at their best. I bought the complete collection after seeing 1 episode of this series on PBS... thats how funny it was. I had just had my broken nose set and had to turn it off because I was laughing so hard it was hurting.
In this series Blackadder is wittier, more sarcastic and slanderous, in other words hilarious, than any other (though the others are still great)! If you only buy one... buy this one. Its funnier than Mr. Bean and will leave you wishing the BBC would make longer seasons, but... then the show might not be so good.
 black adder June 27, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
this product was designed to be read by an american dvd(which I didn't know before buying it reader so it was no good to me because I live in France and have a french dvd reader
 love among the tudors April 19, 2007
theres a noticeably darker turn as our hero (?) moves forth into elizabethan times, and of course the themes would grow darker still in laterincarnations. but what is common to all the different stories is that they are outrageously funny, and this particular group has my favorite black adder character, nursie (who sadly doesnt show up again). rowan atkinson & company are, as usual, in top form.
an embarassing incident with a turnip, an ostrich feather, and a fanatically puritan aunt-- April 1, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The second effort of the series from the writing team of Curtis & Elton,
and they equaled, or if possible exceeded Black Adder I. Of course I
like, understand English humor, I think it may be part of the blood,
seeing that I'm a mix of plantagenet and burton, by way of Canada. But
even for my American cousins, there is enough slapstick to go around,
with the humor that comes from twisting the Bard's beak, and an almost
criminal hijacking of English history. Seemingly working with a
smaller budget than Dr. Who, and a very young, and very cute Miranda
Richardson. Also it has the benifit of an episode and a half that
PBS was to uptight to air, yes my lovlies, something that you may have
not seen. That I really don't understand, the deleated episodes,
"Chains", the half deleated episode, what PBS found offensive you could
see on any channel these days, and "Beer" the fully deleated episode,
on most cable channels. But that is not the point, the PBS which says
it stands against suppression of art, suppressing it. But that is not
the thrust of this review. This is very funny stuff, not only will
your sides hurt from the slapstick, but the right and left areas of
your brain will be stimulated to exhaustion by the time this 200
minute fractured history lesson is finished playing.
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