Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7301 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-11-28
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Synopsis
A compilation of the greatest X Factor auditions including the comments from the panel: Simon, Louis and Sharon.

Customer Reviews

Slightly Disappointing
This DVD was long awaited in our household--especially by me, so that I could watch the apparent unseen footage of the judges and the contestants. However, I was slightly disappointed overall. This is because when I watched the DVD, and most of the footage was from the TV series shown on ITV 1. I find that this was unsatisfactory because the spiel on the DVD suggested that there were auditions and clips we had not seen on either X factor or Xtra Factor.
Overall, it is a good DVD for an X Factor fan, the format is clever and the DVD is overall very well put together.

The end result is pure evil , but the process is TV gold
Without doubt the single funniest moment on TV this year (2005) was the audition by the bespectacled rotund guy on X Factor, who sang something called -I think- “Be My Girl” with a level of simmering rage that spoke of years of frustration and rejection by the opposite sex. What put this demented performance into even greater context was his entirely natural easygoing and affable demeanour when not singing/screaming. To top it all however we saw the segment where contestants were allowed to video their ripostes to the three judges which usually consisted off some deluded tearful wannabe telling us that we’ll see them again when they are famous and successful . Or as is more likely the case serving us in Asda, Sainsburys or wherever. Anyway this chap chose to show us what we were missing by re-doing his audition in grisly bog eyed close up only to finish with a delayed hesitant mumbled sheepish “thank you”. I laughed so much I gave my partner a hernia. Genius of that ilk should not be so easily discarded.
Now the premise of the X Factor goes so unequivocally against my ethos of what music should be all about , namely some high minded tosh about talent finding it’s way naturally and being allowed to develop at it’s own pace any way it wants, that I should be throwing holy water at the screen whenever that theme music strikes up………But despite it’s detestable aim of creating yet another manufactured karaoke cipher the process of discovering the latest hollering shop dummy is undeniably the single most pure form of unashamed entertainment on telly every week .And as every right thinking person knows the best bits are the auditions . Now all the best ones are all collected on one DVD. How can you resist?
Well actually you could picture the frigging smug visages of the judges. Simon Cowell everyone knows about. His product, for that’s what it is, is despicable but at least you get the impression that he knows something about musical history and has a clinical passion for it. I realise that’s like congratulating a serial killer for knowing the best places to dispose of his victims but at least his comments have some empirical validity and I find myself agreeing with him more than I would really like. He’s pathologically hostile towards those who he thinks are chancers or talent less but seems to have his finger firmly on the pulse of this hideous business though his habit of pronouncing everybody whose voice wobbles around like a Glaswegian drunk as “The worst singer I’ve ever heard in my life “ quickly becomes tiresome and when he says “ I really , really lorved it“ it,s quite creepy. The real hate figure of this show is Louis “ You made that song your own “ Walsh. With a face that resembles a wet towel hanging off the hook on the back of the bathroom door he is an opportunistic business man who knows what will shift units, cos that’s all music is to him , but in actual fact seems to know very little about music at all. His crass choices for the final stages of this years X Factor prove that beyond doubt. Worse still, he can be downright nasty, his insults sometimes having nothing to do with ability or even dress sense which like it or not is part of the package. People have no choice over their features however; otherwise I’m sure he wouldn’t resemble a pile of fetid dough melting on a radiator. The charm less little chancer is put into further perspective by mother hen Sharon Osbourne. Her clucking and fussing over the contestants can become irksome at times but she seems genuine and like Cowell she is capable of genuine wit, unlike the poison dwarf. It’s difficult to dislike Sharon.
Which is why it’s such a treat to watch her verbally dismantle the arrogant Eminem wannabe from Leeds when he insults her family? One of many highlights including the girl with the ghetto blaster and a voice like a wasp being cooked in old chip fat, the couple from Yorkshire( “Sing them another song Della”) whose cheesy routine made my toes curl so much I could scratch my calves with them, and the unbelievably conceited twins with a major attitude problem who had to be forcibly removed from the premises.
You may think this is a cruel contemporary version of the gladiatorial arena, shamelessly exploiting these people’s dreams for pure entertainment and you’d be right. But they all know the score and while I would never advocate calling someone an idiot like Loius Walsh did to one poor lad one week just because he looked a little odd I feel that some of these people do need a cold hard slap of reality .Just don’t ask me to be interested in who wins the poxy competition or what becomes of them after that. Unless of course it’s a certain be-spectacled bloke singing “Be My Girl”.

Great Larfs
Nothing funnier than us is there.
From the scary eyed cook " So I hope I can cook you up something today" to the absolutely ancient looking toothless widow "I'm 47" and the look on the faces of the panel, this DVD provides great laughs. Living abroad where many of the guests we entertain are non English speakers, this kind of entertainment crosses the language barrier, always guaranteeing rip roaring fun for all.
Eagerly awaiting more of the same.