Distributor:
Roadshow Home Entertainment Certificate: M15+ | 203 Minutes
Cast: Jon
Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Phil Cornwell, Kevin Connelly, Mark Perry Extras: No
“It’s
bad news Mr President”
“You
mean they’re not bringing the
muppet show back”
Dead Ringers is hilarious, one of the brightest
BBC comedy shows of recent years
, since the days of The Fast
Show in fact; Based on a Radio 4
series of the same name the show
takes a group of top notch
impressionists and some high
quality writers and turns in a
very funny, entertaining fast
moving sketch show.
Jon
Culshaw, who has to be one of the best impressionists of his generation,
heads up the cast with his Tony Blair, superlative Tom Baker, Russell
Crowe and Dale Winton (“He’s lovely”). Others in the cast include
such stalwarts as Jan Ravens, Phil Cornwell (who does a great Michael
Caine as Greg Dyke), Kevin Connelly and Mark Perry.
Dead
Ringers has a touch of class about it, poking fun at politics, tv, music
and films, some of the targets may be a little too insularly British but
on the whole it is spot on. Another good aspect is the quickfire nature
of the sketches, if one doesn’t work don’t worry another will be
along in double quick time.
Dead
Ringers gives a slightly askew vision of our own world, here Parkinson
doesn’t interview celebrities but people at bus stops and dustbinmen,
Darth Vader becomes a tea lady and George Bush uses the songs of Sesame Street to help him remember
his enemies.
Great
fun. No extras
as such but does include the original pilot show.
