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Release Date: 20 January, 2004 Retail Price: $34.98 OUR Price: $27.98 You SAVE: $7.00! Cast: |
'Allo 'Allo - The Complete Series One Reviews
Very entertaining!
This has been one of my personal favorites for a long time. Very funny cartoon-like characters set against a totally crazy storyline. Just when you think it can't get any nuttier, whoosh! here they go again! You have to watch it from the beginning on through because it is a continuing storyline! Only thing is BBC needs to come out with these faster!
Listen very carefolly, I shall say zis only vunce!
Who can resist laughing hysterically at Ren'e Artois' British 'googly' eyes or Madam Edith's alarmingly off-tune singing? The very best that British comedy has to offer is found in this brilliant series by the same writers who delivered us "Are You Being Served?" The series, starring Gorden Kaye and the "pee-your-pants" hilarious Carmen Silvera, centers around the crazy shenanigans of a French Cafe owner, his hideously frumpy yet endearing wife, a bunch of Nazis, and a slew of French Resistance fighters in occupied France during World War II. Ren'e, at the center of it all, is torn between helping the resistance blow up amunition trucks and hiding British airmen and helping the local Nazi commandant hide the priceless painting of the "Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies" which he "vill sell after zuh var." The series is different from other sitcoms (besides the fact that it is actually funny and original) in that each episode builds on the next in terms of storyline and narrative. Watching the first episode (which is on this DVD set) is basically crucial, but if you come into the series late and watch a few episodes you should be able to get the jist of what's going on. The show's context may push a few sensitivity buttons since some may see it as making light of one the darkest nightmares of human history. But overall, the era is addressed tastefully. On the other hand, the show is not very politically correct (which makes a refreshing change): the Nazis are depicted as thick-headed and dumb (naturally); the French are depicted as cowardly and adulterous; the homosexuals are depicted as effeminate and "limp-wristed"; the resistance fighters are depicted as neurotic and melodramatic; and the British are depicted as fools entirely in their own little world. But overall, it's all in good fun. The humor is not subtle and may even border on "potty-humor" but nonetheless, it is a brilliantly funny show.
The only drawback about this DVD set is the fact that there are so few episodes (only eight), but I guess we'll all have to wait patiently while the rest of the episodes are eventually released.
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