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Keeping Up Appearances - The Ultimate Collection [DVD]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5050582517132
Label : Playback
Manufacturer : Playback
Publisher : Playback
Release date : 2007-10-08
Title : Keeping Up Appearances - The Ultimate Collection [DVD]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Parental Guidance
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 8
Region code : 2
Studio : Playback

Customer reviews

review by: Le Nomél date: 2009-05-21 rating:

The Ultimate Bucket
The ultimate collection of my all time favourite series, in one smooth collectors box. Excellent service and promp delivery. A++++

review by: XM date: 2009-02-27 rating:

worth to buy
It's very nice,very funny. I like this kind of humour very much! It's really worth to buy.

review by: Carry On fan date: 2009-02-03 rating:

Snob vs Slob
You have to feel sorry for Richard Bucket ( as played excellently by the superb Clive Swift ) - fancy retiring and having to spend more time with the terrifying Hyacinth ! Their next door neighbors positively quake when being sung at at such high volume. It is a comedy of contrasts as Hyacinth tries to fool everyone into making them think that she is better than she really is by both hosting Candle-light suppers and keeping Onslow Daisey out of sight. No wonder Elizabeth spills her coffee..... br / br /It does lack taste at times as the jokes about Hyacinths son being gay and her Father's all to obvious dementia could be seen as labored unfunny and offensive by Gay's and those whose lives have been touched by mental health issues. br / br /This is a comedy of contrasts as we see the interaction between Hyacinth and her under-class neighbors. It works better than The Royle Family as at least you get sharper social comment by having extreme versions of social climbers and welfare dependents in a comic context. br / br /This Roy Clarke comedy will always be seen as a poor relation when compared to the very funny Ronnie Barker vehicle Open All Hours and the seemingly evergreen Last Of The Summer Wine. It lacks the life a line wit lovable main character of the first and the evocative filming location pathos of the second. The characters are either bland wall flowers or just to over the top to be either likable or plausible. br / br /It is a waste of talent as the cast try their best and I do not blame Patricia Routledge for knocking it on the head after Season Five as she is a fine actress who deserves better than being typecast as a crude snob. Rather than wasting money on this stuff the BBC should have given David Croft the budget and recruited John Inman Molly Sugden. Five series of Here Come's The Queen would have been better. br / br /As with buying Carry On Emmannuelle on DVD - only get Keeping Up Appearances if curiosity gets the better of you.

review by: The Voice in the Wilderness date: 2008-12-27 rating:

"Stop Being So ENGLISH!"
Having learned recently that abuse is perfectly acceptable in the form of smug, backhanded insults and passive aggressive provocation, (whilst of course, using the word `Rubbish' means that you are a violent thug,) I felt that I should finally write a review of this terrible programme. Because in the end, the entire series was based around the premise that telling the truth was the worst crime that anyone can possibly commit. br / br /Along with Jeremy Clarkson, the walking midlife crisis and poster child for libertarian values, (I, e, I demand MY right to do what I want at the expense of everyone else,) `Keeping Up Appearances' is the ultimate example of what is wrong with English society. Not only because Hyacinth `BUCKET' is farcically obsessed with her status, but because the rest of the cast refuse to ever tell her the truth about how they really feel. br / br /They whisper, laugh and complain behind her back, but never to her face. And of course, once they did, then the series would be over. So instead, Hyacinth makes a total fool of herself in evermore ridiculous situations, still believing that she is a `Pillar of the Community' and desperate to `Keep Up Appearances.' br / br /After all, the main reason that most people watch this programme is because they want to laugh at Hyacinth, at her husband for being such a spineless wimp and the poor neighbour who is terrified of breaking the China. br / br /As Freud suggested, the lowest form of humour is to make yourself feel better by laughing at other people's misfortunes. And being English, this means allowing someone to remain blissfully unaware of the truth, lying to their faces and then sniggering childishly behind their backs. br / br /Indeed, this programme's ONLY saving grace was Onslo; the wonderfully strong but silent working-class philosopher whose every line was either a comedy gem or serious food for thought. br / br /Then again, Onslo's character was intended to be the `opposite' of Hyacinth; an introverted man, completely comfortable with his own identity who lived according to his own desires. So what if the writers had looked beyond the clichés and created a true opposite of Hyacinth; an `Ubermench' who judged the value of his accomplishments by the sacrifices he'd made to achieve them? br / br /Once again though, this is England. The value of your accomplishments is determined by popular opinion. Appearances are everything, and so the `opposite' of Hyacinth is a working-class slob who never drags himself away from the TV. br / br /In the end then, nothing could save such a hopelessly one-dimensional programme and the mere thought of it makes me cringe. So unless you are truly desperate to study a near-perfect archetype of middle-class English society, I strongly recommend that you simply watch the repeats on UK Gold. br / br /In the words of those wonderful `Ikea' adverts, "Stop Being So ENGLISH br /

review by: date: 2008-08-16 rating:

Problem.
I love Mrs Bucket, however, this page does not do her justice, br /and whoever wrote the sypnosis on it has never seen it, br /that is, if they think they spell her name 'Hyacinth Buckett' br /everyone knows it is B.U.C.K.E.T.

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