Red Dwarf VIII
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Movie Reviews of Red Dwarf VIII
Movie Review: Not Just For The Die-hard Fans You Smeggin' Goit
Summary: 4 Stars
I'd never seen the 8th series of Red Dwarf. And judging by all the reviews I'd heard about it saying it was the weakest series of them all, I wasn't looking forward to buying it at all.
But after watching it, I have no idea what anyone is on about? It's as great as any other series, it's gone back to it's roots, the entire cast is back in force and it has plenty of classic moments.
This time around they have gone back to the non-film looking footage, and back to a live audience. There is plenty of laughs and the series goes out on a high... leaving you just begging for a 9th series.
The nano-bots from series 7 have reconstructed Red Dwarf, but they have also reconstructed the crew. So it's almost like its time travelled back to where Red Dwarf all begun, only it hasn't, and leaves many interesting possibilities to explore showing that the series isn't lost for idea's, it in fact ingeniously proves it's far from it.
The bonus features are what's been seen on the other series DVD releases. Out-takes, deleted stuff, story boards ect...
There are two Eggs to be found. One on disc two where you select the subtitles and push left and navigate through the elevator buttons to about the 3rd last one on the right side (13th button, I think)
The other egg is on disc 3; If you select Bonus Material, when the screen is panning to the right, press up and you will select the button on the door.
TIP: If you purchase this, may i recomend you dont just click on PLAY ALL and instead go to the chapter selections and make sure you choose the full and uncut movie length version of "Back In The Red" to kick it off with.
May the smeg be with you
Movie Review: Beef - What's with the price discrepancy?
Summary: 4 Stars
Not a review but I love the series. I own up to season 6 and have to say each season is better then the prior. 6 was a delite!
My beef is why the price increase for the US DVD's. Amazon UK sells the UK versions for half the price we have to pay in the US. For instance 1-3 convert to be $14 USD each, 4 is $16, 5 is $17, 6 is $19, 7-8 are $23 each. Also they have a DVD set that is just the shows. 1-4 of this is only $20! 5-8 is $60. So for $80, you can purchase just the shows.
They do have a 17.5% tax rate but that is their tax and goes to their government so it not part of this discussion.
Lastly, what is the deal with the combo 7-8 pack for $81? Do you think we can't add? 7 is $35 and 8 is $35 = $70. Why is the combo $11 more?
UPDATE: only days later since I wrote this and they just now dropped the price for 7 & 8 to 19.50 each. Finally I can complete my collection!
Movie Review: Storylines good, writing spotty
Summary: 4 Stars
As my title says, I think the storylines were pretty good, but a lot of the gags were recycled junior high stuff. Doug Naylor wrote most of it, and there is only one other credited writer on two episodes. Maybe he could have used some help. Extras were pretty good, as they are on all the DVDs in this series. Maybe not the best Red Dwarf, but better than a lot of other stuff that gets on TV.Movie Review: Smeg!
Summary: 4 Stars
It's finally over. This entire series is great although it shows some age here in the last chapters. A must have for any true Dwarfer!Movie Review: Continues the change the show took in Season Seven
Summary: 3 Stars
Some fans of RED DWARF were truly upset by the changes in Seasons Seven and Eight of the show. In Season Seven Rimmer played a much smaller role while in Eight he was no longer a hologram. Chloë Annett joined the show as Lister's former girlfriend Kristine Kochanski and while she did a nice job, she broke up the all boys club of the first six seasons. In Season Seven the action was on the Space Bug while on Season Eight they finally get back to Red Dwarf, but one on which nanobots had restored all of the former crew members that had died in the show's first episode. But while all of these represented major changes, the most important was the breakup of the Doug Naylor and Rob Grant writing team. Grant did not continue with the show and whether because of that or whatever, the comic tone of the show changed dramatically. As Craig Charles expressed it in an interview in the special features disc, the show ceased to be more of a sitcom and became more of a dramatic comedy.
I can't count myself among the more fanatic RED DWARF fans. I find it moderately entertaining and moderately funny in its best seasons, but perhaps because I was not among its biggest fans, the changes in the final two seasons bothered me a lot less than it seems to have done others. There wasn't as much at stake for me as there was for others. But I had no trouble finding large swathes of it to be quite humorous. Interestingly, even though Chris Barrie (Rimmer) was not a fulltime cast member in Season Seven (or perhaps because he wasn't fulltime and they were determined to make his moments as funny as possible) the funniest moments in the season belonged to Rimmer. The Season Seven second episode gave Rimmer a bit of a farewell by having Barrie play Ace Rimmer, and it was one of Chris Barrie's best episodes ever. Then later in the season the Star Bug's crew undergoes "The Rimmer Experience," which is nothing so much as a Rimmer musical puppet show. For my moment, that is the single funniest moment in the history of the series.
Season Seven was on Star Bug, but the bulk of Season Eight was on the newly reconstituted Red Dwarf. I commend the producers for wanting to do something different, but frankly it just didn't feel like RED DWARF with a full crew. Nor did it feel quite right with Rimmer being a human being rather than a hologram. There were also fewer truly funny moments. Though both seasons suffered from having less brilliant dialogue than the first six seasons when Rob Grant and Doug Naylor were crafting the scripts. The first six seasons were always more about talk and brilliant dialogue, while the next two seasons relied more on situational and visual humor as well as extended gags.
All in all, I'm glad that Seasons Seven and Eight were made rather than not made. They aren't quite as good as Seasons Three through Six (the first two, prior to Kryten's joining the show, simply weren't up to the level of what came after). Still, there were many good moments.