Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7494 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-05-25
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 170 minutes

DVD Description
Reggie Perrin (Played by Martin Clunes) retells the story of a sales executive on the edge. An average man finding it increasingly difficult to put up with the monotony of life. A disappointing marriage, the office grind and the daily commute. Rebellion begins to build in his mind, in the form of increasingly surreal flights of fancy. And, slowly, Reggie begins to say what he really thinks...

This new adaptation of the classic sitcom has been written by Simon Nye (Men Behaving Badly) and the writer and creator of the original Seventies show, David Nobbs. Martin Clunes leads a fantastic cast, including Fay Ripley (Cold Feet), Wendy Craig (Butterflies, The Royal), Geoffrey Whitehead (The Worst Week of my Life), Neil Stuke (Game On) and Lucy Liemann (Moving Wallpaper).

Synopsis
Reggie Perrin (Martin Clunes) retells the story of a sales executive on the edge: an average man who finds it increasingly difficult to put up with the monotony of life. A disappointing marriage, the office grind and the daily commute: rebellion begins to build in his mind, in the form of increasingly surreal flights of fancy. And, slowly, Reggie begins to say what he really thinks.

This new adaptation of the classic sitcom has been written by Simon Nye (Men Behaving Badly) and the writer and creator of the original Seventies show, David Nobbs. Martin Clunes leads a fantastic cast, including Fay Ripley (Cold Feet), Wendy Craig (Butterflies, The Royal), Geoffrey Whitehead (The Worst Week of my Life), Neil Stuke (Game On) and Lucy Liemann (Moving Wallpaper).

Customer Reviews

I didn't get where I am today by remaking classic situation comedies
Well, it's easy to scoff and Martin Clunes can never be Leonard Rossiter (no one can) - always seeming young at heart, whereas Rossiter felt old before his time - but this was a pretty successful attempt to capture the essence of Reggie Perrin and 're-imagine' it for today. In a sense, it was very topical - it must surely have been commissioned before capitalism and the consumerist dream collapsed in the way it did - and the fact that it is co-written by David Nobbs, author of the original series, means that there has been a loving attention to detail.

It is certainly vastly superior, then, to the notorious fourth series of the original Reggie Perrin which focused on his legacy and didn't feature him at all. Fans of the original will spot him walking past Sunshine Desserts to his place of work in this series, shaving giant Groomtech. They will also spot the original CJ on the cover of Boss magazine, being read by his 2009 equivalent. The new character is subtly different but just as unsettling - he knows every cliche of management, but nothing about what his new company does (his previous one made dogfood). We've all worked for people like that!

It is the mixture of the familiar and the new that fascinates (right up until the end I wasn't even sure whether he was going to abandon his clothes on a beach in this version) and, while there's nothing as memorable as the original's 'sweltering day in a safari park with the grandkids' episode - indeed, this Reggie, in keeping with modern times, doesn't have any children - there is nevertheless much to be enjoyed here.

Hilarious
I am too young to have seen the original series in the 70s, only ever seeing a couple of repeats and reading the first book in the trilogy from the library in my teens. When I saw that the series had been updated and was starring Martin Clunes I just had to watch it, and was hooked.

Martin Clunes is Reggie Perrin, a modern day everyman. An executive for Groomtech his days are mind numblingly tedious, as are most peoples. The same commute with the trains always running late, with the same excuses are enough to drive anyone bonkers. Reggie is hitting a mid-life crisis and starts speaking his mind more often and having surreal thoughts, which are visually captured for us all to see. Now the gorgeous Jasmine has started working at Groomtech Reggie is quite smitten. Will he ever get her into bed, after all he couldn't do it when they were both promoting the company in Finland. Will he always have to put up with his mother and his father in law keep popping around?

There are a host of memorable characters who are mostly bonkers in this and surely it will become a cult classic as the original series did. Simon Nye (writer of Men Behaving Badly) has joined forces with the creator of Reggie Perrin, David Nobbs to bring some classic comedy to our screens. I have enjoyed watching this so much that I have even now got the book trilogy The Reginald Perrin Omnibus.

clunes comedy is my talent
I watched half the series until now its hystrical .I didnt see the original series but I wont because it wont be as funny as this one this guy martin is really a talented actor I think acting is in his blood comedy or drama (doc martin) I ll try to collect his work and I loved him in men behaving badly .