Absolutely - Absolutely Everything | 
 enlarge | Actors: Peter Baikie, Morwenna Banks, Jack Docherty, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy
Studio: Fremantle Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  38 reviews
Format: Pal
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 8
Running Time: 880 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 2.4
EAN: 5030697013637
ASIN: B0015B04J0
Release Date: May 5, 2008
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Legendary :-) March 5, 2008
simonpeggfan (Maidenhead UK)
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
"Absolutely" was, without doubt, one of the funniest and most refreshing comedies of the late 80's, and still holds up well today. Although most of the cast are Scottish, the humour transcended nationalism far much better than Naked Video.
Featuring regularly recurring characters such as "Mr. Don & Mr. George", the residents of Stoneybridge and the Nice Family, the show was a surreal mish-mash which appears to being picking up more and more (deserved) comparisons to Monty Python as times go on.
This is a hidden treasure that should be compulsory viewing for anyone that loves top quality comedy!
 I thought this would never happen.... April 12, 2008
P. Ryan (Milton Keynes, UK)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Without doubt, the third series of Absolutely is the most consistently funny season of any television sketch show. The other series have great moments but they are patchier, hence the 4 stars here. That said, and as I think another reviewer touched upon, it still ranks above modern day contemporaries like Little Britain which, with half of the output, was faltering and rehashing old jokes.
I was involved with the company that was originally negotiating with Channel 4 four years ago to get the series released on DVD. Rather than release all the episodes as they are doing now, we were planning to do a "best of" to dip the toes of interest and follow-up with the complete episodes if the groundswell warranted it. As a precursor to this, Channel 4 converted some of the 1" masters for us to view to select the material that we wanted and I was given the task of picking suitable sketches from Season 2. It was good but not as good as I remembered it and when the shortlist for the 'best of' was drawn up, over half of the content was from the third series. Unfortunately for us, Channel 4 procrastinated for a further two years with changes of personnel and direction. When they became worried that the distributors of the original compilation, The Vido, still had rights over series 1 to 3, we dropped out. Good to see that it is finally going to get a release from the production company that actually made it.
When viewing Absolutely as it ran on TV nearly twenty years ago, I had a gang of people round watching it and we used to memorise the words, especially to Denzyl/Gwynedd sketches and Frank Hovis monologues. Most of them stuck with me, something which disconcerted John Sparkes at Edinburgh a few years back when, whilst he was reprising Frank Hovis in Filth!, I was mouthing the words to "Taxi" idly before I caught his eye and realised what I was doing. Not sure if he was annoyed or pleased but I stopped anyway.
There were only ten people in the audience that night and that kind of exemplifies that despite being a great piece of television, Absolutely somehow missed the real mainstream in its day. Hopefully the DVD release will give an audience size that the programme deserves.
At long last.... March 12, 2008
Summit
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
At long last the DVD of one of the best comedy sketch shows of all time is being released.The incredible number of strong memorable characters is truly breathtaking. Really looking forward to seeing the security guard whistling directions.
Classic comedy, well overdue for release April 29, 2008
M. G. Hughes (Port Talbot, Wales.)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Still one of my favourite lines ever....
Gwynedd: If you didn't want children, you should have taken the proper precautions.
Denzil: Gwynedd, Gwynedd, Gwynedd. I took the precaution of marrying the most repulsive woman in Swansea......
Can't wait to see this series again. Shame none of my friends remember it, but hopefully I can re-introduce it to the masses.
The classic finally makes it to dvd... March 11, 2008
Mr. J. J. Smith (Wolverhampton)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've been waiting for this to appear since the dvd format was invented.
One of the best comedy series ever. Missed by a lot of people when originally broadcast in late 80's to mid 90's on Channel 4, but here I can get to see Denzil, Mr Don and Mr George, Stoneybridge council, Frank Hovis, Callum Gilhooley and a mass of other wonderful characters.
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