Boosh is Loose (The Mighty Boosh - Complete BBC Series 2 (DVD))

Member Name: emz_angel

Product:	The Mighty Boosh - Complete BBC Series 2 (DVD)
Date:	07/08/07 (220 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: great characters and songs, very entertaining

Disadvantages: need more episodes

Mighty Boosh 2


Once again the Mighty Boosh has delivered another hilarious series full of more crazy characters and more outrageous adventures. The series even sees Vince with a new hairstyle as well as faces from the past.

Background

The series has been written and also stars Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt. Mighty Boosh has been on stage shows, a BBC radio series and a BBC Three TV series. The show first appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998 and the show even won them a Perrier Award and a Douglas Adams Award for the series on Radio 4.

The name of the show came from Noel’s and Mike’s Portuguese friend who said Mike’s hair (Noels brother who also stars in the series) was like a mighty boosh, meaning a mighty bush!

After the success of series 1, Noel and Julian decided to change the boosh by having it set in a flat instead of the zoo in series 1. This allowed the stories to go straight into the adventure which improves the show. This means they have more time during the adventure and more time to make the story even more adventurous.

The new adventures of the brand new series allow us to meet new bizarre characters with some wild journeys from scary woods to tropical islands. The storylines are full of humour, entertainment and strangeness. The show sees more fantastic range of songs that you can’t stop yourself from singing along to, from rock to even folk songs. The series even sees the return of The Hitcher, as well as bringing new weird and wonderful characters to our screen.

The show has had to work with an even lower budget to what they have in series 1 which I think they have done well with. The use of projection of scenes gives the boosh a great touch but makes it more individual to other comedy series. I think from seeing interviews of the cast they did want to give the series a look that it is on a tight budget and I think it makes it even funnier at how bad it gets.

Characters

Vince Noir = Noel Fielding

Vince loves anything electro or punk rock and is a huge fan of Gary Newman. Vince was even raised as a child in the forest by Bryan Ferry! He is quite vain and loves to straighten his mod styled hair while listening to Gary Numan. With his “glam rock” style means he is always being confused with being a woman.

Howard Moon = Julian Barratt

He is a musician/actor/poet/novelist/photographer even though he is hopeless in all of these areas. Howard loves Jazz and Jazz-funk fusion music. Throughout the series we see Howard try to get famous with his band. We see a lot more of Howard’s body in series 2. We often hear Howard say “don’t kill me; I've got so much to give!"
Naboo = Mike Fielding

He is a psychic shaman. If you are mad enough to get Naboo angry he has no other choice but to turn his back on you to teach you a lesson (which is so funny to watch). Naboo is usually the one who has to help Howard and Vince using his magical flying carpet. He’s well known for his stoned expression and even smoking his frog.

Bollo = Dave Brown

Bollo is a talking ape who is Naboo’s familiar even though he is not very good at with Naboo threatening to upgrade him. He is always sensing he has a bad feeling about something, which he is usually right about. Bollo even reveals to Vince he is actually forty years old, but because he is a DJ, he says that he is twenty-nine.

Rich Fulcher (many characters)

One of the sad things about season 2 is that there is no Bob Fossil which has annoyed a lot of Boosh fans. However the new series allows Rich to become a number of different characters, which are even funnier than Fossil. We see Rich as a horny Canadian living in the forest and an angry small blue tribe leader.

The DVD contains 6 episodes from season 2

Call of the Yeti

In this episode they decide to go holiday with Howard deciding they should go into the countryside where they stay at an old run down shed looking cabin. The owner, a horny Canadian man takes a fancy to Vince and to get him on his own he sends Howard to look for the Yeti so that his dream will come true to be on the front cover of a geographical magazine. But Howard is captured by the Yeti people to become there new mate for the mating season. So Vince, Naboo and Bollo must save him.

The Priest and the Beast

The episode sees Naboo telling the story to Vince and Howard about the musical journey of Spider and Rudi on the search for the mystical new sound.
Razorlight and Roger Daltrey star in this episode as well as Noel’s dad dressed as Chris de Burgh.

Nanageddon

After a bad date with some Goth girls, Vince and Howard use a magical book to conjure up a demon only to conjure up what seems like a harmless granny only to find out that it’s a demonic granny wanting Armageddon. So Vince and Howard dress in disguise as grannies and search for the evil granny at a bingo hall.

The episode sees electro band “Robots in disguise” staring in this episode also Noel and Mike’s mother dressed as a witch and Julian’s dad as part of the Shamans council.

Fountain of Youth

Howard starts to worry about his looks as he gets older so after Bollo let’s slip that Naboo has a key to get to the Fountain of Youth, they find the amulet and are transported to the Desert of Nightmares, but are captured by an evil blue tribe. Once they see Vince is holding the amulet they declare him there leader. However the Hitcher finds out about his amulet and uses him powers to get hold of it.

Legend of Old Gregg

After Vince and Howard get a nasty response from a show they played at they decide they should leave town. The pair ends up at Black Lake that is occupied by strange locals. One of the locals encourages the pair to go on Black Lake to go fishing. After the pair fight over Howard’s poor fishing skills, Vince leaves the lake with Howard alone on the lake only to meet the charismatic and funky Old Greg. Old Greg happens to be half man and half fish with a Mangina! Old Greg captures Howard and takes him to his cave giving him “The Funk” as a present only if he agrees to marry him. It’s up to Vince, Naboo and Bollo to rescue him.

The Nightmare of Milky Joe

Vince and Howard decide they should travel to America to Pie Face Record Company to get famous. However on the journey to America on a boat they are thrown off the ship due to Vince giving the captain a Mullet hairstyle while he was sleeping. Vince and Howard are washed up onto an island but soon start to argue, so Howard creates a new friend out of a coconut called Milky Joe. Vince soon become jealous so he creates Ruby and then Precious. Howard starts to fancy Precious and start to go out which leads to him killing her by mistake and being on the run from the coconut police.

Extras

Boosh Publicity
This allows fans to see the cast promoting the new series on a number of television programs and radio stations. My favourite was seeing the cast on Soccer AM taking penalty shots and Mike kicking the ball only to lose his shoe as well.

Commentary on all 6 episodes with Julian, Noel and Rich
I think this really funny to listen to. They talk about how they made episodes, mistakes they made and Rich bragging about how many lines he included in the script without getting wrong.

Photo Gallery
There are some great pictures of the cast which can be found on a number of fan websites.

Out takes
These are hilarious and worth watching, especially Noel and Mike’s mistakes.

Deleted Scenes
There are a few scenes taken out but none that would be hugely missed from the episodes.

Sweet
This is the show they made before they created the Mighty Boosh. The show is about Noels character falling in love with his friend’s invisible sister. Julian character gets jealous and tries to split them up only to find out the end that he fancies Noel character in the first place.

Overall I think the extras are really good compared to what other television series have as extras. They are all worth watching.

Conclusion

In this series the show is full of interesting and bizarre characters that are all different and something you would never see in other comedy series. But as well as seeing fresh new ideas we are also seeing more of the old characters more such as Naboo and Bollo. In the last series they were in very little but in series 2 we see there characters develop more.

The characters in the series are a good blend of different personalities and styles. Vince and Howard’s relationship is even funnier with them being even more sarcastic and child-like together.

The series has a wide variety of storylines in a number of different types of settings. With the zoo not in the series it means there are a more opportunities to use crazier places and scenes. All the settings work really well with the stories and create wilder storylines.

I love how Mighty Boosh use a lot of songs in there work as it’s completely different from other television shows. All the songs have been written and made by Noel and Julian and blend in well with the show. All the songs are full of funny and peculiar lines combined with some great chorographer created by Dave Brown. All the songs are from a wide range of styles so there songs for all different people’s tastes. I especially like Nanageddon song with its hilarious lines and great rock style beat.

Here are some funny quotes:

Vince: The tie is a multi purpose accessory, belt, school boy, Rambo!

Vince Noir: Goth Juice... The most powerful hairspray known to man. Made from the tears of Robert Smith

Vince: Glamour Nana, like a nana that was a bit saucy in the fifties.

Howard: A little too sexual perhaps, little too sensual. I've heard that before, that my moves can be a bit too ripe for some...

Old Gregg: Easy now, fuzzy little man peach.

Fisherman: (Talking about Old Gregg) some say he used to drum for the Kaiser Chiefs. Actually, not many people say that. In fact, it's just me who says that.

The Moon: (Talking about Old Gregg) some say he's like a big fish finger ....as big as a garage.

Overall the series is brilliant as it appeals to a whole range of different people from children to adults. Also the series is very different from other shows. Each episode takes us on wild, weird and very bizarre journeys from searching for the new sound and stopping an army of demonic nanas. All the episodes give the audience endless laughs and great entertainment squeezed into 30mins per episode.

Price

Amazon £9.98
Play.com £14.99
HMV £10

Thanks for reading :-)

Summary: a fresh comedy program full of bizare adventures and crazy characters