Hai! (Banzai)

Member Name: mr_darlington

Product:	Banzai
Date:	04/07/02 (82 review reads)
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Advantages: Interactive, Fun For Whole Familly

Disadvantages: Can Cause People To Shout At Screen

Who'd have thought that a Japanese themed interactive betting show named after a tree would take off? Well obviously directers Peter Boyd Maclean and Simon Toyne did.
The first time I saw Banzai advertised on E4 I thought it would just be a show taking the micky out of the Japanese language and culture, and to a certain extent it does. But no so much as to cause offence, well at least the Japanese people I know are not offended.
Banzai is a show that takes general things and uses them as betting objects, although sometimes it takes very strange tasks (for example having Todd Bridges (Willis from Diff'rent Strokes) in a swimming race against a dog).
Only once have I seen Banzai go too far, and that is where they had a doll of Princess Diana dropped out of a window to see what side of the fence she would land on. Although I think the producers realised the seriousnous of this one and have not had anything similar since.
Banzai is now one of my favourite shows on E4 next to Graham Norton and Friends, and hope that it will continue to be shown for a long time.

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