Dick n Dom's take on Monty Python's Holy Grail..... (The Legend of Dick and Dom)

Member Name: sparkymarky1973

Product:	The Legend of Dick and Dom
Date:	02/09/09 (43 review reads)
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Advantages: Works brilliantly, lots of subtle references that adults will pick up on and very clever humour

Disadvantages: Only on for thirteen episodes.....

Over many decades of television and film, there have been several well-known comedy double acts that have created for themselves something of an established reputation; Little and Large, Morcambe and Wise, Cannon and Ball, Laurel and Hardy.... all these comedy duos have quite rightly earned their right to be remembered. But none of these have become the stuff of legends...until now!

Dick and Dom, the BBC's answer to Ant and Dec, first made their name in the kids show Dick N Dom In Da Bungalow which featured juvenile humour and light Saturday morning entertainment. But now they are the stars of a new show, The Legend Of Dick And Dom, which has a universal appeal for adults and youngsters alike.

Set in a mythical land that has fallen foul to a virulent disease, Dick n Dom star as a pair of Princes who help to govern the Kingdom. Their father, The King, arranges for an antidote to be made at great expense and gives it to his two sons to drink first. Unfortunately, after consuming the medicine, the pair drop it on the floor and The King sends them forth in disgrace to go and recover all the ingredients needed to remake the antidote. They are accompanied on their quest by Manitol, a very awful magician whose spells have a habit of going disastrously wrong, and a reabilitated thief named Lutin (see what they did there) and together set off to find all the nessecary ingredients to save their land and return as heroes...

But things are never as easy as they seem.....

Over the course of thirteen episodes, this mixed band of would-be-heroes must gather such items as a Mangofish, Dandruff from a Princess and Hairy Bat Saliva. This sets the scene for a series of highly amusing adventures that takes them all across the land and even, at one point, into our own world for a very brief excursion. The show is narrated by ex-Python Terry Jones and is quite literally littered with mainstream comedy and television references that older viewers are more likely to get giving the show universal appeal and enabling parents as well as children to enjoy. The Legend Of Dick And Dom has just finished a run on early mornings CBBC and is something I would not hesitate to watch again. Not only was it very, very funny but also very cleverly written and created. Like a more immature version of Monty Python's Holy Grail, it is imediately obvious in which direction it's influence lies and is very much in the same vein as earlier shows such as Maid Marion and Round The Twist that were about when I was a kid. Dick and Dom, two people I had never really followed before, here excel in their performances and it would be a crying shame if this was not made into a second series! Chloe Bale, as Lutin, provides a veritable smorgasboard of eye candy and Steve Furst, known best as the bald bloke from the Orange adverts, steals many of the best lines in his role as Mannitol. But this is a show that succeedson a multitude of levels and that is why the BBC should be persuaded to bring this back. Not for a long time has a kids show ever made me chuckle to myself so much. Long live The Legend Of Princes' Dick And Dom!

Summary: Dick n Dom must recover the ingredients of a magic potion and cure a kingdom of plague...