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Blackadder - Complete Series 4 (Blackadder Goes Forth) (DVD)

 

Description: Genre: Television - Black Adder / Theatrical Release: 1989 / Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson ... / DVD released ... more
Blackadder - Complete Series 4 (Blackadder Goes Forth) (DVD) ... 22 October, 2001 at 2 Entertain Video / Features of the DVD: Full Screen, PAL / The final Blackadder series, which first appeared in 1990, was the most highly evolved of all of the Richard Curtis/Ben Elton-scripted excursions. Having contrived to attain the Crown at the end of the third series, Rowan Atkinson's Edmund Blackadder is now reduced to a mere Captaincy in the trenches during World War I, with these episodes finding him shooting messenger pigeons, grumbling about Charlie Chaplin and unscrupulously evading his patriotic duty to pile over the top and be slaughtered pointlessly. Hugh Laurie plays the upper class silly arse to the hilt while Baldrick, who has grown progressively more stupid throughout the four series, can barely muster the intelligence to move from the spot. Blackadder Goes Forth stoutly refused to the end to abandon its relish for broad, puerile scatological puns: "Captain Darling will pump you thoroughly in the debriefing room," growls Stephen Fry's General Melchett. However, Blackadder's cynicism is laced with genuine despair at the recent madness of World War I. The closing moments of the final episode, as Blackadder and co. finally receive their orders, are handled with sober poignancy and became a frequent fixture in Remembrance Day TV scheduling. --David Stubbs

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 ... the coming offensive. Luckily a fake phone call to HQ claiming to be from Pope Gregory IX secures them a job. Posing as Italian cooks they dish up some of Baldrick's appalling improvised specialities to the General and Captain Darling. A funny introduction to the series and an indication of the form it will take: witty one-liners delivered by the deadpan and contemptuous Blackadder as well as from his two innocent foils. The battle of wits between Captains Blackadder and Darling also begins. The two men are actually...more

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Crowned Review Blackadder - Complete Series 4 (Blackadder Goes Forth) (DVD): Goodbye Mister B (1958 words)
by Templar19 - written on 29.04.08 (Very useful, 143 readings)
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When we think of the 1980s in the U.K. we can picture many things: yuppies, Princess Di, Margaret Thatcher, mobile phones the size of bricks and, last but not least, 'alternative' comedy. For the latter, as far as TV went, its beginning was heralded by the BBC's "Not The Nine O'Clock News" series that began in 1979. One of the stars of that series, Rowan Atkinson, would in the 80s create a comedy character whose several historical incarnations would become synonymous with that decade, one Edmund Blackadder. He first popped up at the tail-end of the Wars of the Roses, reappeared a century or so later at the court of Good Queen Bess then again as ...

 
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