The Black Adder
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Movie Reviews of The Black Adder
Movie Review: Hilarious
Summary: 4 Stars
I first saw this on PBS. This show is great if you appreciate the type of humor presented.Movie Review: A few things you should know about 'The Black Adder'
Summary: 3 Stars
It's a long time since I saw the first series of Blackadder, which I remembered as being somewhat dull compared to subsequent ones. On re-watching, however, it proved to be funnier than I expected. The best episode is probably 'The Queen of Spain's Beard', which deals with Blackadder's attempts to get out of marrying an extremely ugly Spanish princess. Worth mentioning is Brain Blessed, who is hilarious as the fictional King Richard IV.
'The Blackadder' has surprisingly high production values and special effects compared to later series. Another key difference is Blackadder himself, who is far less intelligent than his descendants. Baldrick, on the other hand, is more intelligent...indeed he is almost normal! One of the best things about watching the series' sequentially is seeing the lead character's cunning and sarcasm develop, just as his social status goes down from Prince to Captain.
While still the least effective of Blackadder's various incarnations, this opening series is definitely worth watching, and if you are new to Blackadder you should probably watch it first, as it sets the scene for much of what follows.
You may also enjoy Time Struggle 1: The Wolves of Odin (Volume 1).
Movie Review: Work in the making
Summary: 3 Stars
Blackadder 1 or the name of its original incarceration 'The Black Adder' is a series that, looking back, showed promise but wasn't quite on the money. Poor lighting and underdevelopment of characters made it more of a start of something rather than an affirmed instant classic. As The Black Adder, Rowan Atkinson's character is snivelling and cowardly with a speech affectation that may come across a little annoying, far from the later series, where Ben Elton came on board and fleshed out the characters better and morphed Blackadder into the scheming, sarcastic and witty despot that we know him to be. This transition isn't explained at all in Series 2 which is a bit of a head-scratcher but we'll forgive it.
I would say to anyone looking at investing into the Blackadder series to start at Blackadder 2. Still one of the best comedies Britain has ever produced and one of our greatest comedians.
Movie Review: Digging for the comedy gold may tire some
Summary: 3 Stars
I'll make it brief: Rowan Atkinson fans will want to see this, in particular the fans of the other seasons of Blackadder. Those not accustomed to British comedy will be better suited avoiding it. There are some instances of truly witty dialogue and classic situations, but they are beset by a mire of disconnected jokes that feel more like "in" jokes that you weren't supposed to get.
This is easily the oiliest of the Edmunds...and the smartest of Baldricks. (It's all downhill from here for the Baldrick family.) British icons Brian Blessed and Peter Cooke are as wonderful as ever.
Movie Review: Terrible image quality
Summary: 2 Stars
I LOVE this show, but the image quality is so bad on the DVD that I can't watch it. You see even older TV shows like the original Star Trek being enhanced and fiddled with to the point that they feel comfortable putting it on Blu-Ray, but they can't at least moderate the crappiness of the video quality on this? They could have run any number of image enhancing or cleaning programs on it but it looks as if they absolutely did nothing to it at all.
It's ridiculous how bad this looks. As if it was transferred from a VHS tape. I'm very displeased. I wish I'd been able to see a screen capture before purchasing it.