Father Ted: The Definitive Collection
by Andy De Emmony, Declan Lowney
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Actor: Ardal O'Hanlon, Dermot Morgan, Frank Kelly, Pauline McLynn, Rosemary KennedyDirector: Andy De Emmony, Declan Lowney
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Arthur Mathews
Writer: Arthur Mathews
Producer: Geoffrey Perkins
Producer: Graham Linehan
Writer: Graham Linehan
Producer: Lissa Evans
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 650 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
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- Craggy Island, located somewhere off the coast of Ireland, is the setting for this critically acclaimed, award-winning comedy series. Father Ted, the responsible one of the bunch, is challenged with the difficult task of overseeing the simple-minded Father Dougal and the cranky, alcoholic Father Jack. Father Ted has his work cut out for him keeping himself and his colleagues out of trouble and rec
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Movie Review: That's the great thing about Catholicism. It's so vague and no one really knows what it's about
Summary: 5 Stars
Once upon a time, on an Irish island so small that it didn't appear on the maps, there lived these three priests... yeah, it sounds like the setup for a joke or a really bad religious story.
Fortunately it turns out to be the theme for "Father Ted - The Definitive Collection," a kooky comedy about a trio of painfully unholy priests -- moderately crude, quite goofy, and full of insanity. The series gets progressively weirder as it follows the adventures of the titular character and his drunken and/or idiotic sidekicks, and the cast is absolutely brilliant.
On Craggy Island, there's a single Catholic parish run by three priests -- long-suffering Father Ted (Dermot Morgan), half-witted Father Dougal (Ardal O'Hanlon), and deranged foul-mouthed lecherous alcoholic Father Jack (Frank Kelly). They also have a crazy housekeeper obsessed with tea. The priests aren't exactly holy, since all three have been exiled there for various misdeeds.
Over the three seasons, the priests encounter the hostile bishop, a sexy author, a dead-boring houseguest, the worst priest in the world, a trio of bishops, TV hosts, a radical feminist rocker, a slutty milkman, a nervous sheep, and a hardcore nun who could double as an inquisitor.
They have to deal with the blasphemous pornographic film "The Passion of St. Tibulus," a plague of rabbits, a costume competition, bishop buttkicking, bomb-carrying milk floats ("Ted, I wanna be a priest again!"), Ted's reputation as a racist, priests lost in the vast lingerie department, an about-to-crash plane full of priests, giving up their vices for Lent, entering a singing competition, raffling a car (which Ted has wrecked), a stolen whistle, a disastrous seaside holiday, an appearance on "Faith of Our Fathers" and the apparent death of Father Jack.
Small warning: "Father Ted" is definitely not for anyone who wants an all-sparklyhappysunshiny depiction of Catholic clergy, because... well, there's a reason these guys were exiled to Craggy Island. Except for despair, I'm pretty sure the priests on this show manage to commit all the seven deadly sins, plus Dougal's unofficial sin of mind-blowing idiocy.
And it's quite funny. It's not quite as funny as "Blackadder" or "Fawlty Towers," but it's got plenty of entertaining stuff here. There's lots of slapstick, strange problems ("Ah no, not Toilet Duck again!"), hilarious dialogue ("Imagine blowing your head off with a shot-gun. How'd he manage to survive that?" "He didn't, Dougal... he died"), and the priests being rather unpriestly (one of them may actually be a monkey disguised as a priest).
Morgan is quite good as the "straight man" of the cast, who is the most normal despite having stolen charity money -- he's constantly dealing with the idiocy around him with a kind of resigned patience ("He loved children... they were terrified of him, though"). O'Hanlon is thoroughly entertaining as the peabrained Dougal, Kelly makes a wonderful gnarled old drunken coot ("FECK! DRINK! GURLS!"), and Jim Norton has a small role as a hostile bishop with a dirty little secret.
"Father Ted - The Definitive Collection" features the worst Catholic parish in the world, if you consider both priests and parishioners. But it does make for some very funny comedy.
Summary of Father Ted: The Definitive Collection
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