Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19940 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-08-18
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 360 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is the smuttier, stupider sitcom descendent of Men Behaving Badly, but lacks that show's charm and intelligence. The series tells the story of five twentysomethings--the loveable Johnny (The Royle Family's Ralf Little), his libidinous sidekick Gaz (Will Mellor), their long-suffering girlfriends Janet (Sheridan Smith) and Donna (Natalie Casey), and a token comedy-weirdo Louise (Kathryn Drysdale)--doing their best to fathom life's hardships through endless discussions about sex, booze and relationships.

In trying to appeal to a "yoof" audience through the use of recognisable, everyday settings, Two Pints... eschews the tradition of focusing on a "situation" almost entirely; essentially consisting of a string of scenes in which the characters sit trading witless banter in a pub, then in a lounge, then in a kitchen and then in the pub again. As a result it can't punch in the same league as more sophisticated, dramatically satisfying and, frankly, funnier sitcoms such as The Office, Spaced or Black Books and feels more like a weak excuse for a series of toilet gags. On these terms, however, it is amusing if juvenile entertainment. In particular, Little's performance as Johnny, a confused child trapped in a man's body, provides both humour and a likable centre to the show.

On the DVD: Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps on DVD has the complete first two series with has episode selection, scene selection and subtitles but no special features --Paul Philpott

DVD Description
Janet (20, half a cider-and-lager) dropped out of college to be a lady-who-lunches. She now works in a mobile phone store. She's got Jonny (21, pint of bitter). He's the one who really, really wants to be a bloke, but finds it hard to leer at women. He's easily swayed by Gaz (23, pint of lager). He's the genuine Cosmo Bloke. What Gaz really wants is to find someone with larger breasts than Donna (20, pint of lager). Loud and tough but with a heart of gold, she's one of the girls. Until she gets home to Gaz, where she's the man. Which is why she envies Louise (19, Malibu and Orange without ice). She's gorgeous, but she's the only one who's never had a boyfriend. Which is why she is jealous of Janet. This brilliantly-observed, highly engaging comedy features five loveable, skint characters in their 20s, in a script written for the Playstation generation.

Contains all the episodes from Series 1 and 2:

Series 1

• Fags, Shags and Kebabs
  
• Spunk
  
• Bone with the Wind
  
• Angry Wangery
  
• Lard
  
• Ugly Babies

Series 2

• On the Blob
  
• Bungle
  
• Dirty Girls
  
• Vomit
  
• Crusty Curtains
  
• Mo Mo & Pigsy

Special Features
English
Region 2

Customer Reviews

Real Life - Really Funny
Two Pints is the best new comedy to come along in years and mostly because it's true. Was the Amazon reviewer never a young pissed up twenty something? The corrie bird is one of the best characters in it - I'm sure we all had a friend with a mother like that! Buy this DVD and then go to the pub armed with witty conversation pieces.

If you can't relate you won't get it!
If you take the rather stilted attitude of comparing this with other comedies and criticising it at face value then I think you are missing the point of the show entirely. This is a raw portrayal of young northern life that is very reflective of a lot todays youth. To me the characters have become friends and it's almost scary how much I can identify with Janet and Donna, the little things they do are easily identifiable in my own life, Johnny's reminisinces of 80's childrens television are also highly amusing and reflective of memories of being a kid of the 80's.
Obviously the plotlines contained some slightly far fetched ideas mainly used for drama and to propel the characters forward in their development, but if you reduce things down and analyze the key emotions and motivations of each character then you can easily find the same people and the same emotions in your own life and this is why I find it so relateable.
If you're not a young early 20's skint northener then you may not understand and enjoy this but if you fit that description then I think you'll find plenty to laugh about and enjoy in this series.

A few kn*b-gags never hurt anyone
Splendid & closely-observed 20-somethings comedy, which makes me laugh out loud more often than any other comedy since Fawlty Towers. It doesn't try to be deep or preachy or moralising, it's just about entertainment. If I want clever sophisticated humour, I watch Frasier -- but Two Pints is not intended to be anything like that, a point which seems to have been completely missed in the rather sniffy quasi-highbrow Amazon review here -- does the reviewer moonlight for the Daily Mail or something?
Just buy this disc, crack a Stella and have a few good belly-laughs.