Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7097 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-07-25
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Formats: PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 720 minutes

Synopsis
Joey Tribbiani has moved away from New York and set up residence in Hollywood with the ambition of becoming a serious actor. Lodging with his sister Gina and her grown-up son Michael, life will never be the same again. 24 episodes.

Customer Reviews

Give it a chance,..
Many of my friends who used to watch 'FRIENDS' (the series) have quickly taken to the new sitcom 'JOEY' with a negative attitude.

The first few episodes are weak and sure it's not as good as 'FRIENDS' but there are some classic comedy moments in there and some great episodes later on. It is a comedy so be more open minded, try to enjoy it!

As a big 'FRIENDS' fan I do love the connections between the two shows and the few references but on a whole I just love 'JOEY' for what it is; a cool, easy-going comedy series.

Infact one of my friends who had always hated all the 'FRIENDS' series has really enjoyed the 'JOEY' coverage on t.v. I'm hoping to get him watching friends in no time, even if we do watch from series 10 back to 1.

My personal favourite character is Michael, Joey has all the great one liners but Michael as a character is very funny to watch and very easy to love, I can't wait for the second series!

If you liked friends I really do hope you give this a good chance and you should love it. If you're a fan of any American sitcoms then you should definately try it out.

Joey
As many other people i thought the new series of Joey was gonna b a bit boring and repetitive but this 1st season has been brilliant. Each week they have come up with a totally new story and not made it boring and once the season got going there was some really hilarious stuff in there. The funniest episode ive seen so far is the one where he was meant to be in 3 plays at once and he goes to the play that he thinks is a shakespeare play but it is infact a cowboy western. HILARIOUS. If you have doubts about this series then watch that episode. I think series 2 will b an improvement just as friends was after series 1. If you look at the biggest comedies you will see a vast change from series 1 to 2. The Simpsons & Friends just to name 2.

An amazing show! (review of seasons 1 & 2)
At the end of the TV show "Friends" all of the characters had settled down - Rachel and Ross had got back together with their baby Emma, Chandler and Monica adopted twins and Phoebe and Mike had tied the knot, so that left Joey (Matt Le Blanc) which gave us this excellent spin-off where he has moved to Hollywood which has been set up by his sister Gina (Drea De Matteo) to live with his nephew Michael (Paulo Costanzo) and to pursue his dream of becoming a movie star.

I'd like to start off by saying that this show is brilliant - easily one of the best sitcoms I have seen and definitely the best spin-off since Frasier. Ive watched both series 1 and 2 (which I had to order from Amazon.ca) and it is hilarious with such strong characters and good storylines. Why they ever cancelled this show is beyond me as although it isn't Friends (and I didn't think it ever intended to be) Joey is a really fun show that was finished way too early.

Going back to the characters - Joey is Joey, maybe a little bit more over the top than he was in Friends but he is still the womanising, sandwich eating actor that we all grew to love in the ten years of Friends. His sister Gina is a similar character to Joey but is a little stronger minded and tougher than her younger brother. Her son Michael is the brains of the family who doesn't have his uncles skills with the ladies. Joey's next door neighbour Alex (Andrea Anders) is a lonely lawyer whose husband is away a lot of the time. Howard, also a neighbour, idolises Joey and would do anything to be his best friend. Joey's alcoholic agent Bobbie (Jennifer Coolidge) is hard mouthed and appears to have a heart of stone but she does do a lot to help Joey out over the seasons. And finally there's Zack (who first appears in Season 2) who is an actor/director/film crew/new best buddy of Joey.

As well as the excellent set of characters, the storylines are all very funny and have some side-spitting jokes and situations that could only happen to Mr Tribbianni. One problem I found with this show though was Joey falls in love a little too often - keeping in mind he only ever fell in love once (with Rachel) in the whole 10 series of Friends - he falls for 3 different women in just 44 episodes in 'Joey'. A few gueat appearances from his friends from Friends would have been good too.

Overall I've already made it clear that I really like this show and can't believe why it was cancelled as there's not many US sitcoms as good as this one. I think people perhaps expected a little too much from this and wanted it to be exactly like Friends so were disappointed by this, but if you watch this as a stand-alone show you will love it!

NOTE: If you're after season 2, this is available on the Canadian Amazon site costing about £25.