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 enlarge | Actor: Rowan Atkinson
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 10432
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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 quality comedy September 14, 2004
Ian Stewart (Lexington, KY United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this DVD because I remembered enjoying it during my days as a student in England. Time has not withered Blackadder! Since it isn't 'topical', it's as funny now as it ever was.
There are only 6 episodes on this disc, plus a few extras, but I think it is worth the price. I have watched several of the episodes over and over again. The quality of the writing is good, but I think the strength of it is that the actors are amazingly well chosen. I can't think of a single living comedian who could deliver some of these deliciously dry lines, (usually weakly disguised insults), as well as Rowan Atkinson. Lord Percy is hilariously effete, Baldrick is a lovable dim-witted servant, Queen Elizabeth is a squealing, spoilt schoolgirl, and Stephen Fry is a great foil for Blackadder.
Buy this! You won't regret it. Anyone who appreciates well crafted comedy would enjoy this, particularly if they have an interest in history too!
Incontinence pants required. July 27, 2004
Mike (CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Set in Elizatbeth I's time, Black Adder is a courtier trying to scheme his way to the crown. Miranda Richardson is hilarious as the fickle queen and Rik Mayall puts in a scene stealing over the top performance as Lord Flash Heart in one of the episodes.
This is probably the best season of this very funny series, don't watch with a full bladder!
better than Blackadder I - and is no small feat! December 30, 2003
Deborah MacGillivray (US & UK)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
This series of episodes has the decedent of the first Edmund Blackadder in Elizabethan times. Atkinson, quite dapper in his beard, is still plotting with a lot of cunning plans to further his lot in life with the decedent of his friend Percy and his Dogsbody Baldrick. This time Edmund is up against Queen Baby who borders on nutso, with nursey at her side.These episodes 1 - Bells finds Edmund employing a new servant named BOB - much to Baldrick's distress. Just as things seems to turn out all right in comes FLASH his best man and complicates all. Episode 2 - Head - Queenie appoints Edmund Lord High Executioner and she keep his hopping with "off with their heads" only Edmund gets a little ahead of himself and lops one head too many In Episode 3 - Potato - Edmund is furious that Sir Raleigh has returned and curries favour with Queenie, so he Percy and Baldrick set out to find the new world...but they bring back something rather different! Episode 4. Money - has the Bishop of Barton Wells after Edmunds for money owed, only Edmund does not have it and is dashing about madly to get it before the Bishop gets out his hot pokers Episode 5 - Beer - is one of the best of the series - Edmund has
his uncle and aunt - religious people - coming for supper. But the Queen has Edmund in a drinking contest with her PM. Add an oddly shape turnip in to the mix and the Goblin song and it is riot! Episode 6 - Chains - has a mad German master of disguise trying to rule the world. He kidnaps Edmund and the PM, and the Queen can only ransom one.... A side-splitting great time!
 The Best of the Black Adder Series. November 1, 2003
Paul J. Smith (Bemidji, MN United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"I am the Queen of England. I may have the body of a weak and feable woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a concrete elephant." "Prove it!" "I most certainly will. First, I am going to have a little drinky-winky and then in the morning I'm going to have you all executed." Miranda Richardson as Elizabeth I is in my opinion the best part of all of Black Adder. At first I though she was being a bit annoying but when she came the lines above, the only thing to keep me applauding her was the fact I was in the room alone. Black Adder is one of Britain's best and this is certainly its best season (though one of the best parts of the series is the way they rewrite history and I think season one probably did the best with that aspect). The only thing I found disappointing was that Queeny didn't actually behead everyone in the last episode.
Best British series EVER!!!!!! June 9, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Black Adder is without a doubt the funniest series to have ever come from England - yes - funnier than Monty Phython!!! Although I have never been a fan of Mr Bean - Rowan Atkinson proves his comedic genius in this, the best of the Adder seasons. However, it does help to have SOME knowledge of the time period in which this series takes place.If you are new to the Black Adder, I recommend this series as a great starting point.
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