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 enlarge | Actor: Rowan Atkinson
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 10604
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: 200 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: WARDE1560D
ISBN: 079076024X
UPC: 794051156020
EAN: 9780790760247
ASIN: B00005A1SU
Release Date: June 26, 2001
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Showing reviews 11-15 of 22
 an embarassing incident with a turnip, an ostrich feather, and a fanatically puritan aunt-- April 1, 2007
D. G. Luttrell (Colorado)
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.
Totally hilarious December 13, 2006
R. Meadows (calif)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The costumes crack me up the most. It is really funny. Any history lover would just die to see this. The queen is really witty also. Well worth buying and watching repeatedly. Cant stop laughing.
Black Adder II November 10, 2006
Mary Reeves (Lubbock, TX)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Absolutely hilarious! I've watched it so many times now I've lost count. Out of all the Black Adder's this one is my favorite. Rowan Atkinson is a dead one ringer for an Elizabethan favorite complete with the back stabbing attempt to rise to the top.
 Great comedy shame about the DVD February 22, 2006
Mr. A. O'rourke (UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After the Painfuly unfunny first series we see Edmund transform from a wimp to a cad and it's all thanks to Ben Elton and an amazing Performance from Rowan Atkinson. With Blackadder 2 they set the standard for series 3 and 4, every episode is pure comedy genius.
Episode list:
Bells: When Edmund hires a new man servent named Bob (Who's realy a girl) Blackadder find himself falling for her charms and decides to marry her. Everything is going well until Lord Flashhart turns up and charms the pants of her.
Head: When Queeni gives Edmund the job of Lord High Executioner he decides the best way to get the rest of the week off would be to chop a few heads off a few days early. Not a good idea when the Queen decides to let one of the prisoners go free.
Patato: Edmund is not happy when Sir Wallter Raleigh returns from his voyage smelling of fish and decides to go on a voyage of his own on a ship with no crew and a captain who's leggless.
Money: When Blackadder gets into debt with the Black Monks the Baby Eating Bishop of Barthon Wells turns up and threatens
Edmund with a violent death unless he pays up.
Beer: When Blackadder is challenged to a drinking contest at the same time his overly religious mad aunt and uncle, Lord and Lady Whiteadder come around he must find away to keep both events from clashing. Very funny.
Chains: When the evil Prince Ludwig kidnaps Melchett and Edmund the Queen must decide which one of her boy's she wants to pay the ransom for. Unfortunatly for the two of them she decides to spend the money on a party instead.
Sadly there are no extras at all on this DVD which is a great shame. Let's hope the BBC pull thier fingers out and do special editions of these comedy classics. Still worth buying for the episodes alone however.
One of two seasons... December 23, 2004
Photoscribe (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Of this series that has to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen committed to videotape and broadcast! "Blackadder II" involves the fortunes of a descendant of the first "Blackadder" series living in the Elizabethan period of Merry Olde England along with a descendant of the first Blackadder's dogsbody, Baldrick and his distant relative Percy. Edmund Blackadder is a court favorite of the Queen, here played by Miranda Richardson as a spoiled, capricious brat who always gets her way and pretty much behaves like a child for the run of the series. It's a brilliant portrayal, but a presumed fiction, as Elizabeth I is generally considered to be one of the more enlightened leaders in Britain's history.
You have to wonder what goes on in the minds of British comedy writers, as the premises for the episodes here are wild and varied. The episode "Potato" is one of the funniest, with Tom Baker, of "Dr. Who" fame, portraying an eccentric pirate/sea captain enlisted by Blackadder to help him show up the smug bore, Sir Walter Raleigh. "Beer" involves Edmund trying to juggle entertaining his extremely puritan relatives with holding a drinking contest with his buddies from Elizabeth's court. The scene where he tries to concoct a lie "on the fly" as to why a monk from the drinking contest group roars drunk into the room crying "Great booze-up, Edmund!" while BA is hosting his relatives is probably the funniest in the entire run of the "Blackadder" series. The "See you, Jimmy" scene from "Chains" is also funny as the blazes!
I've often wondered how the erudite, sophisticated Edmund Blackadder could be played by the same actor who parlays the meek, nerdy, retiring "Mr. Bean". It almost looks like the two characters are being played by twin brothers, they're so different in temperament, and, to be honest, level of sophistication in the humor. Anywho, about the only thing from British television that even comes CLOSE to equalling "Blackadders II & III" in tone and genius is the very clever "Red Dwarf" series, (all eight years!) a satire on "Dr. Who" melded with "The Odd Couple in Space".
I can't recommend this and "Blackadder III" highly enough!
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