No it's still shite
I'm probably the only one, but I thought it quite enjoyable. I loved the original and Bob Mortimer will never be as good a Jeff Randle but it was good family fun.
I suspect its also loved more by people who haven't seen the original (which I have)
I don't mind the series either - it's a Reeves and Mortimer vehicle, and in that sense it doesn't disappoint, it's quite amusing, Tom Baker's great, and it fills fifty minutes in an inoffensive way. Great to see Wanda Ventham in something, and Peter Bowles - the kind of people you'd expect to see in the original (which I've never seen).
So, I don't mind it at all.
Awwwwww..you must be a mere baby !!
I too loved the original R&H(D), but I think the new version is brilliant....and to top it all off I HATE Reeves & Mortimer normally, but find them highly amusing in this...and the special guests, effects etc make this Saturday nights best programme in ages !
i think the problem is that first, it's not a 'comedy', rather a drama that's sometimes funny, in keeping with the original, and compares to stuff like jonathan creek (nevermind whether you think it's funny or not). secondly, and most noticeably, bob mortimer just CAN NOT ACT!!! vic reeves ain't no larry, but bob is just so fucking wooden it's awful.. we laugh far more at bob churning out his lines with absolutely no inflection, emotion or any of those other acty things, than any of the scripted jokes...
shouldn'y have been a r&m vehicle, vic's ok, but they should've got an actor to play randal...
>Awwwwww..you must be a mere baby !!
I'm pushing 29.... I haven't got round to buying it on video yet... nor have I noticed it on Granada Plus since I acquired that luxury (?)
>>Awwwwww..you must be a mere baby !!
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>I'm pushing 29.... I haven't got round to buying it on video yet... nor have I noticed it on Granada Plus since I acquired that luxury (?)
Sad to say I am approaching 30 ! The last channel I saw it on was Bravo...but that was in the days that it was good...with the black and white idents RKO style..those were the days !
Reeves and Mortimer.....have got a second series commissiond.
Sadly.
I agree with whoever said (and I suspect it was more than one person) that Bob Mortimer isn't too good at the old acting lark, but then again even those who can act sometimes find themselves living in Brookside Close!
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I agree with whoever said that it fills 50 minutes in an agreeable way, it's certainly fairly undemanding and done in a nicely polished sort of way. However, I also agree with the comment that it might have been better not to have let it be someone's 'vehicle' because I'm not sure whether Vic and Bob add to the fun of it or detract. Just to add a skewiff female perspective, my first thoughts were to quite enjoy Bob M's Randall, because he's a not unattractive chap and I was more willing to like him than Vic R... however, with each progressive show that I've seen, I've inclined in the other direction and now find Vic quite watchable and Bob rather a trial as his delivery of lines tends to break the flow of the programme and bring you back outside the fantasy to thoughts of 'comedians trying to act' (Just for the record I have absolutely no criticisms in the same line for the likes of Fiona Allen and Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse).
Tom is Wyvern is Tom and a pleasure but I believe the highlight of the show is Emilia Fox as Jeannie - she reminds me of no-one so much as Emma Peel in respect of actual likeability and general sense.
...and when they bring it back I really hope Mark Gatiss writes himself and Steve Pemberton some slightly extended and improved parts!