Look Around You : Complete BBC Series 2

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5014503153823 Format: PAL Label: 2 Entertain Video Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 2 Entertain Video Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2006-01-16 Studio: 2 Entertain Video
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Misfiring on All Cylinders Comment: Alas, while the first series delivered a standard of comedy that endured throughout every episode, the second series - delivered as a lampoon of "Tomorrow's World" fails on far too many counts. When the series starts recycling jokes from the first series and ruins them (i.e. "Thanks ants... Thants" gets repeated each and every episode until you're fed up with it). Somehow the silliness and tomfoolery fail to raise a smile, and where the first series fooled the viewer into thinking this might all be for real, here no such doubts exist. So, stick with the first series and enjoy it. Somehow, watching the second series comes off less funny than your second read through of the Teletext page extras on the first series DVD. Customer Rating: Summary: a change of idea from series one......... Comment: Series two of look around you went in a different direction from series one in that they scrapped the idea of 10 minute science for schools clips and decided to make half hour science and technology programs similar to those seen in the early 80s.....eg ...tomorrow's world.Although not as funny as series one it still has a few good laughs here and there.The dvd has a hidden segment or easter egg as well on the additional items page check out the test card and play it through past the credits and the segment will begin playing.Well worth buying if you are into british comedy and sick of the stodgey american sitcoms playing on tv nowadays. Customer Rating: Summary: A let down . Comment: After buying the excellent Series one of Look Around You , I purchased Series two , expecting the same quota of laughs . I found this a disappointment . It does not get anywhere close to the first series . Some of the stuff is simply not funny , and it had me pressing the forward button on more than one occasion . Customer Rating: Summary: Hello Comment: Unfortunately I suffer from Cobbles so I find typing difficult, but let me assure you this is a most excellent program. Goodbye. Customer Rating: Summary: Very Funny Comment: I could end this review now by simply saying "If you like laughing, buy this DVD". But I need to say a bit more than that, because I think this show has been passed over by too many people, and it's ended up underrated and in the same "cult enthusiasts only" realm as Garth Marenghi's Dark Place. Now that's a fantastic show too, and the two programmes have a lot in common. Not least of which in that they were shown without any major publicity and to limited audiences only. The other similarity is that they are both spoof shows. "Look Around You" is a spoof of Tomorrow's World, set in the 1970's, and it presents a kind of bizarre parallel universe in which the presenters look forward to inventions and new technology that they predict will change the way we live in the future. It's hard to explain what is so funny about the show in writing, but on watching, I found it to be hilarious almost all the way through. Firstly, you can lose yourself in the show's supposedly "current" world where every high street has a much loved "casserole" chain restaurant, and people get robot John McEnroes for Christmas. Then you add to this the inventions featured on the show that the presenters predict will be changing all our lives for the better, such as the vegetable orchestra and the Memory Helmet. Throughout the show, further laughs come thick and fast from various interludes, like information on what programmes are coming up next, or the hilarious "Data Bank" that offers totally barking mini quiz questions. The programme could have easily failed, however, without the talents of the performers who front the main show. The two original creators of the first series now appear on screen along with two new female presenters, and there are numerous cameos in each show, all of which are uniformly deadpan and convincing, the combined effect of which (with the four main presenters) is pure gold. Throughout the six episodes there isn't a single moment where any of the cast let the mask drop even for a second. Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz seem born to play the parts of the two male presenters and I challenge you to disbelieve the sincerity of Olivia Coleman (from The Office and numerous other mock-real life comedies) as she presents the moving and tragic story of "Cobbles", the disease which turns the sufferer into a pile of stones. Fourth team member Josie D'Arby does equally well, with an especially good line in fawning enthusiasm, be it over some truly dire computer games ("Diarrhea Dan") or in trying out a new sport called "Gonnis" (don't ask). This show is so full of good ideas, i found it hard to understand why some reviewers have said the idea was being stretched too thinly. Each half hour show seemed to fly by for me, and I was laughing all the way. This second series is probably far more accesible to the casual TV viewer than the original show, which lampooned Programmes for Schools with a bit of Open University thrown in. I can't imagine there ever being a third series of this, although if there is, I'll be ready and waiting. But my advice is to buy both DVDs and treasure them. More Reviews