Father Ted - Complete Series 1

Father Ted - Complete Series 1
by Declan Lowney

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Actor: Ardal O'Hanlon, Dermot Morgan, Frank Kelly, Pauline McLynn, Tony Guilfoyle
Director: Declan Lowney
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Arthur Mathews
Cinematographer: Eugene O'Connor
Producer: Geoffrey Perkins
Producer: Mary Bell
Writer: Graham Linehan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 148 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner

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Movie Review: Wretched Indeed!
Summary: 1 Stars

How bad can this be? There is a laugh-track, for god's sake. Read Joseph Haschka's wonderful (and only other one-star) review for "Father Ted - Series 1." I wish I'd read Haschka before ordering this totally abysmal nonsense. Digging ditches is more fun than watching this boring, ugly, dreadful garbage.

"Father Ted" is dull as dishwater, surrounded by the kind of nutjobs that spend too much time commenting on other Amazon reviews: those with nothing to do. No imagination went into this series. It strings a series of old cliches about rural people and retarded priests into a gob of nothingness. The Catholic Church is beside the point entirely. This is only for those who think loggers are called the fu-fu nom de plume "lumberjacks," who think rural people are all inbred and stupid. This is not about interesting eccentrics of any sort, just bizarre and boring distortions.

If this show is extremely popular in Ireland, this may be due to a lot of anger. I sure don't want to follow a laugh track to know where the "funny" parts are. "Father Ted" attempts "Monty Python," but it's just cheap, with a dull, badly put together set, poor production values, and lacking a story to tell, except to inflict a kind of hellish purgatory on viewers. It can't be compared to the "Vicar of Dibly," rather, it's a surreal nightmare, playing to the lowest common denominator. Do yourself a favor and don't believe what all these positive reviews. They are totally misleading. Don't waste your hard-earned money on this grotesque drivel.

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Summary of Father Ted - Complete Series 1

Join Fathers Ted, Dougal and Jack, three Irish priests exiled by the Church to their own private Purgatory, a twisted lump of rock called Craggy Island, as penance for indulging in their daft vices. Features all episodes from series one.

Father Ted is one of those rare sitcoms that defies categorization--it owes as much to Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett as it does to Monty Python--and its blend of satire, character comedy, and anarchic surrealism has made it a cult favorite around the world.

Exiled to remote Craggy Island, Father Ted Crilley shares a house with the breathtakingly stupid Father Dougal and the constantly inebriated Father Jack, who has a small vocabulary and a taste for furniture polish. Their housekeeper, Mrs. Doyle, takes care of them with a never-ending supply of tea and sandwiches: "Go on now, Father, won't you try one? They're diagonal." Together they fight boredom by dressing up as Elvis, startling ducks at the fair, and provoking nuns.

This DVD contains the entire first season of Father Ted--six episodes of inspired lunacy including a visit from the excruciatingly dull Father Stone, Mrs. Doyle's solemn recitation of all the bad language in Ted's favorite novel, and the death and resurrection of Father Jack. Packed with great lines and hilarious characters, Father Ted gets better with every viewing. --Simon Leake

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