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French & Saunders - Back with a Vengeance | 
 enlarge | Directors: Ed Bye, John Birkin, Tristram Shapeero
Actors: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Derek Lyons, Rowland Rivron, Simon Brint
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 57777
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 30
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARDE2209D
ISBN: 1419806653
UPC: 794051220929
EAN: 9781419806650
ASIN: B0006Z2KZM
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Very good condition, handled with care DVD receives professional Opti-fix cleaning, outer case shows slight shelf wear, low price, first class shipping! Visit my marketplace store - bulk shipping provided!!!
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Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 03/01/2005 Run time: 110 minutes
Amazon.com
The comedy duo of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders return in full splendor! Each has gained greater fame individually (in The Vicar of Dibley and Absolutely Fabulous, respectively), but delightfully ridiculous things happen when they combine their powers--crazed and surreal humor they could never fit into any other forum. In one sketch they play Renaissance stylists, sullenly assisting Boticelli with the costume and hair design for his classic painting of Venus; in another, they're a pair of retired Englishwomen in Florida, ecstatic to the point of madness over the abundance of American food. Rather than simply mocking Cold Mountain, they mock the movie and Nicole Kidman's vapid audio commentary on the DVD. Weaving in and out of the comic routines is a meta-sketch about the creation of the entire special, in which the pair depict themselves as lazy, fatuous, arrogant narcissists whose only redeeming feature is that their producer is even more ignorant and incompetent than they are. French and Saunders skewer female excess like no one else--in a holiday special included as a bonus, French does a devastating version of Catherine Zeta-Jones giddily reveling in her success, giving a Christmas speech as the Queen of Wales. The loopiness of the best bits defies description; their rapport and timing are simply exquisite. It's a pleasure to be in their company again. --Bret Fetzer
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 Very Good But!!! August 3, 2007
I will give this 5 stars becuase its so good. BUT! i cant stress enough that in the UK these were seperate episodes. There is one point when it goes from one sketch to another in one sketch they are doing the stylists to the masters sketch and next would be Jennifer doing comunity service because she head butted the Queen. But in the dvd you dont know it if you didnt see it on the Tv. So if you live in the USA and you didnt know that Jennifer did Comunity Service she did because she head butted the Queen. In the end of the whole dvd during the credits a clip of GMTV news presenter (which is a program in the UK) says that Jenifer head butted the Queen but in the program when they were seperate that clip in the credits was in the end of one specfic episode. This is a good series and glad i purchased it all the way from the UK. Also if you live in the USa and you watched the Sausages and Mash sketch in the christmas special it is a parody of a half decent murder drama called Rosemary and Tyme starring felicity kendal from the good life (or the good neighbours as you americans call it.)
French & Saunders -- terrific! March 28, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This DVD includes Jennifer Saunders' parody of Cher through the ages, and that alone is worth the price of the disk. But there are many more hilarious sketches and parodies, it's another wonderful F&S DVD.
 Too close to the topic ... January 11, 2007
I am a huge fan of these guys but this DVD is just not up to par with their others. Much of this video is not comedy at all. It is French and Saunders hanging around the BBC office trying to come up with a skit that will work for their new producer. The majority of the film occurs there and they don't ever come up with the comedy routine. I love their work and have howled at all the others in this series, but this one misses the mark. I think part of the problem might be that it relies on humor best understood by people who are actually involved in network comedy. Their experiences with and knowledge of the industry allows them to see humor where the average person does not. Buy ON THE ROCKS instead...you won't regret it!
One of their funniest collections September 23, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was introduced to French and Saunder through the equally hilarious "Absolutely Fabulous" series. I think this DVD is among their funniest. While there are a few Brit cultural references that are obscure to an American audience (as in any Britcom), this did not impede my enjoyment. The brilliant writing and comedic talents of these women still made it incredibly funny. Includes the usual sendups of popular movies, (Kill Bill, Cold Mountain, Troy) UK tv shows (Hopefully Haunted, which is actually on The Travel Channel here), and icons (Cher, Catherine Zeta Jones, The White Stripes) who have rightfully earned quite a bit of lampooning.
Still the best September 7, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
French and Saunders seem to improve with time! Of all the F&S DVDs, this one had me laughing the most and the hardest. The Cold Mountain commentary and Florida retirees sketches are two standouts, although the rest of the material is consistantly funny. The Christmas special included as the bonus is a total treat!
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