Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26360 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-11-14
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Box set, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 420 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Bundling together the first two series of the smash hit BBC series, this double pack of Little Britain: Series 1 & 2 is an economical and entertainment-packed way to catch up with one of the comedy phenomenon of the decade.

A sketch show focusing on an eclectic selection of characters, there’s plenty here to enjoy. From catchphrase comedy, including Dafydd, the only gay in the village, and the yeah-but-no-but-yeah-spouting Vicky Pollard, through to quieter, wryly observed takes on everyday life, it’s hard not to be entertained.

It’s tricky to pick highlights, but the trick here is that the show’ creators--Matt Lucas and David Walliams--have created numerous memorable characters, and have a great knack at putting them in tightly written, at times gut-bustingly funny scenarios. Witness the adventures of wheelchair-bound Andy, as he leads his carer Lou on a merry dance, for evidence.

Little Britain isn’t a flawless show by any means, and there are a fair share of troughs to the undeniable peaks. Yet Lucas and Walliams, through both their writing and performances, keep the laughs coming regularly and reliably. For Little Britain is fast, frequently very funny indeed, and has enough moments to ensure these discs will be spun time and time again.--Simon Brew

Synopsis
Meet the characters that inhabit 'Little Britain' in the first and second series of the comedy sketch show. Characters such as: Dafydd, the only gay man in his village (and wants to keep it like that); Fatfighters group leader Majorie Dawes; teenage girl Vicky Pollard, and rubbish transvestite Emily Howard. Along with these characters there is the carer Lou and his wheelchair bound pal, Andy, and the multi-talented actor, singer and composer Dennis `Minder' Waterman. The show presents a wide range of comedy characters in sketches shot both on location and in the studio.

From the Studio
Take a surreal tour of the British Isles in this comedy sketch show, adapted from an award-winning radio series, as it looks at life in the new millennium by following the lives of some extraordinary and sometimes sinister folk.

You could learn a lot about our glorious land from this award-winning sketch show. Find out how Britain lives and breathes through the enduring characters of Dafydd, the only gay in his village; Emily Howard, the unconvincing transvestite who protests "I'm a lady!"; Lou, the caring protector of manipulative wheelchair-bound Andy; and Vicky Pollard, the scheming, thieving, lying teenager who would give most hard-nosed criminals a run for their money.

Customer Reviews

Unfunny, unoriginal, over-hyped
This dvd is one of the most depressing so-called comedies I have ever had the misfortune to witness. It is simply boring. Buy something like the marvellous Peep Show, Spaced or Black Books if you want truly original (and funny) comedy.

This show is a classic case of emperor's new clothes. People seem to think because everybody else says it's great they're somehow deficient if they don't. Let's say it - it's Little Britain that's deficient.

Boring and tedious
I really tried to enjoy this show but as others have said, it's pretty uninspired stuff. After seeing the show make it near the top of one of those "100 funnniest show" programmes on C4 I felt I needed to say somewhere what I really think of it. The scene highlighted was the one where Lucas gets out of his wheelchair and dives into the pool. David Walliams I thought was somewhat arrogant when he suggested that he and Lucas will go down in comedy history for that scene. Mildly amusing as it was, I think the media's hyteria over Little Britain has gone to his head. The show simply consists of a number of scenes in which there are a couple of dull exchanges between characters before the writers have obviously given up and decide to let the characters each say their catchprases or do the most disgusting thing they can think of in order to get a laugh instead. The formula never changes and it annoys me to think that the show's attracted such praise considering the lack of originality and effort that has gone into creating it.

Little Britain supporters on here have suggested that people may not like it because they are offended by its vulgarity. I assure you that's not the case. The real reason is that the people who don't like it can see through the vulgarity and see that it's simply there because the scripts aren't witty enough on their own. The creators have had to resort to "grossing out" the audience in order to try and get a few cheap laughs, I'm not impressed.

Comedy is a really subjective thing and people are clearly very divided here on the show. If you'll pardon the cliche it's a real marmite scenario.

I don't like it
All day and night for the past few years I have had to put up with slack jawed idiots imitating the hilariously uninventive catch phrases of Little Britain. When the show was first on BBC 3 I liked it, this was until I saw the second episode and realised it was all the same. Britain has made great comedy in the past Brass eye, Father Ted, Spaced and the League of Gentlemen. All of this shows are great.
Little Britain is a bad rip off of the League of Gentlemen. If you like this rubbish then buy LoG and burn your current comedy collection.
This show wasn’t meant to be mainstream; it wasn’t mean to have retards reciting sketches in their masses. The main flaws in the show are how uninventive it is, repetitive and uninspired. I thank God that the BBC has shown mercy and axed the show.
The box set alone is pointless as BBC 3 repeat it just about everyday and if you don’t have BBC 3 then get a friend to tape it.
The comedy in the show is very lazy, Matt Lucas and David Walliams rely on stupid catchphrases, the only good sketch is the one with the pushy stage mother, and this is a copy of a sketch on the league of gentlemen anyway.
Come on people, I believe together we can erase the evil that is Little Britain. I just can’t wait to see what Lucas and Walliams comes up with next. If you do like this show then you are very silly but fair enough, I’m not a comedy fascist, I just think that those who like this show are very annoying.