99 reviews
Sales Rank: 4565

Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 225
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: WARDE2275D
ISBN: 1419810642
UPC: 794051227522
EAN: 9781419810640
ASIN: B0009FVS8Y

Theatrical Release Date: June 20, 2004
Release Date: August 16, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

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Product Description
Take a journey around Little Britain a small and surreal parallel universe peopled by over-the-top eccentrics lunatics an social misfits. Meet Vicky Pollard the gloriously incoherent trailer trash teenager. And Emily Howard the world's least convincing transvestite. Then there's Andy sitting all day in his wheelchair painstakingly looked after by Lou who has no idea his friend can walk. Little Britain presents the breathtaking debris of modern life in all its glory.Running Time: 225 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 794051227522

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"Britain, Britain, Britain, land of technological achievement. We've had running water for over 10 years, an underground tunnel that links us to Peru, and we invented the cat," narrates Tom Baker gleefully at the beginning of Little Britain, introducing the first hit show for fledgling digital channel BBC3 and the best new British comedy since The League of Gentlemen.

Read our interview with Lucas and Walliams.

In fact, creators and stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams acknowledge a large debt to the League, not only in the gallery of grotesques all performed by the duo, but also in the way in which the familiar sketch-show format is expanded by clever use of locale: not Royston Vasey here, but "Britain" itself in all its perverse splendor: from Darkly Noon, where chavette Vicky Pollard seems all too frighteningly real ("Yeah, but no, but yeah. Shut up!"), to the Welsh village with only one gay, to the council estate where buck-toothed Lou looks after apparently wheelchair-bound Andy ("Yeah, I know"), to Kelsey Grammar School where pupils are baffled and confused by their fusty teacher, and many more besides. It's unashamedly puerile stuff and, as with The Fast Show before it, many sketches rely on a single incident or catchphrase repeated over and over in only slightly different contexts. But it works brilliantly, thanks to the characterizations of Lucas and Walliams, their sharp eye for the eccentricities of modern life, and of course that surreal voiceover from Tom Baker. Another triumph for Auntie Beeb. --Mark Walker

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1 out of 5 stars

Stumped by the great reviews December 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

We love Ali G, The (British) Office, Monty Python, and most lowbrow humor of any sort. Even if the laugh track hadn't drowned out most of what the characters were saying, it was just not funny. About as clever as a 70's US sitcom.

3 out of 5 stars

Vastly Overrated, Yet Innovative None The Less August 30, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

When Little Britain was first released here in the UK, it debuted on a little watched BBC channel named BBC THREE. Within a few weeks word had spread about this hysterical sketch show that makes fun of every British stereotype under the sun. There was the Chav teenager, the not so wheelchair bound man, the transvestite in denial, the upper class elderly racist and the man claiming to be gay simply to stand out from the crowd. Those residents of the UK can all relate to at least one of Little Britains characters, even if it isn't some of the main characters, one of the lesser seen characters will certainly ring a bell and have a person saying "That's like such and such down the street".

That was Little Britain's main appeal, but apart from the familiarity of it all it simply had no substance other than a few repetitive gags tweaked and turned to try and keep it fresh. I have no doubt that after the first series, creators Walliams and Lucas should have quit while they were ahead as they ended up destroying some well loved characters. Vickie Pollard was without a doubt the character that caused the biggest stir in the UK as it held up a big poster and said "These are the kids of today". To some it was an offensive message, but there was no doubt there was a lot of truth behind it as most working class teenagers act in exactly the same way.

Other than the odd cheap giggle due to moderate racism or general controversy that, at times had you in stitches. It's been called by many as the greatest sketch show ever made but although I'm one for difference of opinion, calling it the greatest ever is simply not true. Monty Python's Flying Circus craps all over Little Britain and Python was made more than 30 years prior to Little Britain.

Buy the Monty Python collection instead, you will get much more for your money.

3 out of 5 stars

Funny, but undeveloped July 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

There is much going for "Little Britain," mostly in the persons of its two leads -- Matt Lucas and David Walliams -- who perform at least a dozen characters between them. The characters themselves are funny and original -- from rapid-talking bad schoolgirl Vicky Pollard, to unconvincing transvestite Emily Howard, to poodle-coddling, bonbon-eating trash novelist Dame Sally Markham. It's amazing how two actors can conjure up and play such divergent characters -- each having unique catch phrases, makeup and mannerisms.

But Little Britain has more than its fair share of misses. Des Kaye, the out of work TV kids show host now employed at a hardware store is creepy and wretched, but not funny. The narrator's introductions are so juvenile that I thought they might be parodies. And the characters find themselves in precisely the same situations over and over again. This is particularly true for the characters Lou Todd and Andy Pipkin. Andy is wheelchair-bound and constantly vexes his longsuffering companion Lou with demands for items that (once he has gotten them) he instantly rejects. This was interesting the first time, and perhaps the second, but by the 6th of 7th repetition of the formula, I was wondering about the writers' seriousness. And sanity. Then, there is the vulgarity, which given the show's deficits, seems an attempt to make up with grossness what it lacks in cleverness. Be it plain vulgar words or crude topiary or offensive signage, the dirt goes on and on. This might be funny were its purpose noble or silly, but it's not an asset in this setting.

I would normally rate this show a 2, but I was taken by its flashes of originality. Too bad the writers and actors don't know where to take this buggy once it gets rolling.

5 out of 5 stars

fabulous July 6, 2008
talent in many areas.
Fat Finders and Jam at the fair is probably my favorites.

Ok, maybe Bubbles made me laugh the most.
Well worth it.

5 out of 5 stars

Computer says.... February 14, 2008
Won't spend too long saying how great this series is, but I would recommend that if you liked this then try Catherine Tate.

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