Red Dwarf: Series II
by Ed Bye
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Actor: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Norman Lovett, Suzanne BertishDirector: Ed Bye
Brand: FOX
Producer: Ed Bye
Editor: Ed Wooden
Producer: Ann Zahl
Producer: Paul Jackson
Writer: Doug Naylor
Writer: Rob Grant
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: E1616
Studio: BBC Worldwide
Product features:
- Boldly going where no one in their right mind would ever go, this popular cult sci-fi spoof takes you on a joyride three million years into the future. Those ubiquitous anti-heroes of space travel - Lister, Rimmer, Cat and Kryten - are coming to DVD for the first time ever!Running Time: 180 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION Rating: NR Age: 794051161628 UPC: 79
Movie Reviews of Red Dwarf: Series II
Movie Review: "It's a Magic Door!"
Summary: 5 Stars
Space slob Dave Lister is back, the uptight Arnold Rimmer is back, the cool classy Cat is back, and so is Holly the computer. In Red Dwarf series 2, we get more colors on board the ol' mining ship, more locations, more guest faces, more quotable banter and just as many laughs as the first series, if not... more! 4 of the 6 episodes are up there with my absolute favorites, and the other two are pretty good too. Personally, I'd start with series 1 and work my way along if I was a newcomer (that's how I did it, actually), but series 2 would still be a great introduction to this sci-fi/comedy series.
In "Kryten", the crew of the Red Dwarf find a marooned spacecraft with two lovely ladies aboard. Unfortunately, the ladies are dead, but their mechanoid servant Kryten still lives, so they take him on board the ship. He's very polite and very subservient, Lister thinks he's a little too subservient. Can he convince the robo-man to rebel against Rimmer?
"Better Than Life" is the name of the second episode, and of a virtual reality video game that truly is better than life. In it, you can see, feel, touch and taste everything your heart has ever desired. The Red Dwarf crew find a copy in a very late delivery of mail, and decide to have a go. They end up having a great time, but will Rimmer's self loathing end up ruining it for everyone?
"Thanks for the Memory" sees the crew celebrating the anniversary of Rimmer's death. Rimmer gets himself drunk on hologram alcohol and admits to Lister that he never really had someone to love. They all go to bed, but end up waking a few days later. Lister and the Cat have broken legs, a jigsaw puzzle has been completed, pages have been ripped out their diaries and Red Dwarf's black box is missing. Rimmer suspects aliens, though the others doubt it. Can the crew discover what happened in those lost days?
"Statis Leak" sees the crew finding a leak in statis. That is, they found a hole in the space-time continuum. That is, they found a magic door into the past. Rimmer wants to bring his living past self into the present, Lister wants to find his would-be girlfriend Kochanski and tell her how he feels, the Cat just wants to find a girl. Will any of them succeed? Keep a look out in this episode for former Fast Show member Mark Williams (better known for playing Mr Weasley in the Harry Potter films). He plays Lister's friend Olaf Petersen in this episode, and Lister gets to give him a big kiss.
Holly the computer has made one mistake too many in the "Queeg" episode. Not only are the crew sick of it, but it seems the ship is too. Because of Holly's incompetence, the backup computer Queeg is activated and takes over Red Dwarf. Queeg is strict and unforgiving, and the crew realise how nice Holly was to them, despite his flaws. Can they all get Holly back in charge?
"Parallel Universe" is about just that, a parallel universe. In this alternate reality, the Red Dwarf crew are all women instead of men (except for the Cat, he's still male, but in this reality he's a humanoid Dog). The Red Dwarf crew from the regular universe travel to this alternate reality, and Lister ends up getting a little too close to his feminine self. Sort of a cliffhanger ending here...
There are many special features here, as there are on all the Red Dwarf DVDs. There are audio commentaries on all the episodes by Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Norman Lovett and Danny John-Jules. There's a documentary of sorts called "Red Dwarf from A-Z" which has little themed segments for each letter of the alphabet (A for Arnold Rimmer, S for Smeghead, etc). In this documentary there are clips from the other series, as well as interviews from fantasy author Terry Pratchett, Star Trek's Patrick Stewart, the one and only Stephen Hawking and even a couple of aggressive Daleks from Doctor Who! There's a lengthy interview with writer Doug Naylor about series 2. There's a reel of deleted scenes, though most of them are alternate and extended scenes rather than truly deleted ones. Notable deleted scenes on the reel include Cat caterwauling through some feline karaoke, the full "Androids" TV soap theme song, and a scene where Rimmer discusses the Space Masons. Other special features include an original 1980s TV spot, the full "Tongue Tied" music video from "Parallel Universe", snippets from the audio book read by Chris Barrie (he does all the voices too! What a guy!), a photo gallery, music tracks, outtakes (smeg ups), a montage of all the characters disguises and alternate personalities, special effects footage and even some hidden bits and pieces. With each series you get more and more special features, so look out! They menus have all got a great theme and look to each of them, I must say too.
Recommended for lovers of comedy, sci-fi and all things British.
Summary of Red Dwarf: Series II
Boldly going where no one in their right mind would ever go, this popular cult sci-fi spoof takes you on a joyride three million years into the future. Those ubiquitous anti-heroes of space travel - Lister, Rimmer, Cat and Kryten - are coming to DVD for the first time ever!The second series of Red Dwarf was, as Danny John-Jules says in the accompanying DVD commentary, "the one where it really went good." First broadcast in the autumn of 1988, these six episodes showcase Rob Grant and Doug Naylor's sardonic, sarcastic humor to perfection. The cast had gelled and the occasionally erratic tone of the first series--which was made a little too much in the shadow of Dark Star and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--is replaced by a confident assurance that the show's mix of sci-fi in-jokes and gags about bodily functions really does work. There's more color this year, too, as the drab sets are spiced up, a little more money has been assigned to models and special effects, and the crew even goes on location once in a while.
"Kryten" introduces us to the eponymous house robot (here played by David Ross), although after this first episode he was not to reappear until series 3, when Robert Llewellyn made the role his own. Then in "Better Than Life" the show produced one of its all-time classic episodes, as the boys from the Dwarf take part in a virtual reality game that's ruined by Rimmer's tortured psyche. Other highlights include "Queeg," in which Holly is replaced by a domineering computer personality; the baffling time-travel paradox of "Stasis Leak"; the puzzling conundrum of "Thanks for the Memory"; and the astonishingly feminine "Parallel Universe." --Mark Walker
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