Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

supernova_painkiller What I expect from a comedy show to be perfect is to be both canny and shameless. What makes ABOFL so remarkable (actually it's one of funniest and pleasant things I've ever seen) is a well-known formula to comedy duos: balance. It looks obvious to conceive, but hard to achieve.Every duo MUST have a leader. It's hard to accept, but it's completely necessary. That doesn't mean that one is better than another, it's just you can't have a body with two heads: one must point at the direction and the other must move towards the goal, the head and the body.With this in mind, one must agree Fry is the head. I saw one review here where one says the he has an overbearing presence... I agree, but not in that sense of loftiness, but in the sense of command and control. See, Hugh is the body (a lovely one by the way), he is the fun, the grace, the spirit that moves the show. But what if we had two Lauries? We'd have lots of laughter but no wit, and this would be wearing, it would run in circles around itself, an explosion without function. And if we had two Frys, we would have and interesting show flirting with comedy, but not fun.Here is what all the genius of these two brilliant men is all about: Judgment. Fry never tries to be funnier than Laurie, because it's not possible, just that! Laurie was made for comedy like few people are, and his type of humorous talents can be hardly beaten, Fry's cannot compete with this. But, at the same time, Hugh, despite being so brilliant, knows it and allows Fry to lead him. Because he (Fry) has sense of artistic form, like technical, he knows what to do and how to - a perfect timing - then Hugh comes and does so. He is the player, Hugh is the ball, together they reach the goal.I totally recommend this. Here is my favorite quote from the show: "Please, Mr. Music, will you play? ...Soupy Twist."

ashwin-avasarala Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are known for their comical timing, wit and acting skills and until now one could only imagine what sort of mad magic will be created if they script down and act out a "sketch" themselves. A bit of Fry and Laurie encapsulates the talents of both of them in the perfect proportions to make the audience laugh. Not having to use a script, but just 'Bits' as the title suggests, makes it all the more light-hearted. The use of language to make something absolutely innocent, to outrageously funny is probably the most striking aspect. Sure they go overboard sometime, but hey like I said, its madness. Funny, insane, sometimes thought provoking and of course Fry and Laurie.

dr_foreman I consider Steven Fry & Hugh Laurie to be old buddies of mine, since I grew up watching "Blackadder" and "Jeeves & Wooster." Naturally, I thought I'd give "A Bit of Fry & Laurie" a try when it came out on U.S. DVD. So far, I've seen the first two seasons.The show sees the boys operating at their most cerebral and bizarre; many, many of the sketches are unashamedly intellectual and/or surreal. While there are many hilarious moments, I find perhaps half of the sketches to be either flat or alienating in their grotesqueness. The show is a weird mishmash of great stuff and complete clunkers. Generally, I find Laurie funnier than Fry.The first season is good on the whole, but the second season sees Fry and Laurie recycling too many of their characters for repeat skits. I really didn't need to watch the endless adventures of John the businessman or the soft-spoken secret agents, for instance. I wanted more new stuff.But when the sketches are great, they're great. I can't get the nursing home skit with the cocoa out of my head. But something about the bad sketches really annoys me. Sometimes being a little too smart and too smarmy kills the joke, you know what I mean? Pitch your material lower boys, pitch lower! You're dealing with an American here! Maybe I'll buy season three when I have some dough handy -- I'm just not sure.

smegma23 Having never seen ABOFAL on TV, I've now watched all of Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD. To be fair, one should note that not every sketch delights--some are perhaps a shade too random and give us little to hang on to or identify with; but when Fry gets going on his "overly-florid-speech" character, with Laurie as the increasingly put-out straight man, we're in LOL territory. A particular highlight of Season 2 is the extended sketch in which an effete, reticent Laurie is charged by Fry's menacing spy/terrorist with planting a bomb in a local restaurant--then this scenario plays out alongside two or three other situations in the restaurant--each one terrific--with Fry and Laurie playing multiple characters.In addition to the six episodes of Season 2m the DVD includes a 45ish-minute "Cambridge University Footlights Revue" that, while inconsistent in tone and quality, shows off Fry and Laurie and some of their contemporaries (including Emma Thompson) at college-age, looking freshly scrubbed and adorable. Fry, in particular, had yet to gain his extra poundage--his slender face is beautiful and he is a veritable panther in terms of physical grace. He, solo, also has the best piece in the "Revue," a recitation called "The Letter" that recounts, with raucously funny wordplay, his Harkerian visit to Transylvania to respond to the legal needs of one Count Dracula. ("The journey through Eastern Europe had passed pleasantly enough. I'd picked up a little German on a previous visit, and he and I had met up again at Ragensberg. Now, night was just falling as I knocked on the mighty oaken door, and heard the answering echoes ring through the castle. After what seemed a cliché, iron bolts were drawn back..." "I tried to question Travolta as to the nature of the Count's business as I dressed for dinner, but he made the sign of the cross and said nothing. I asked him why there were no mirrors in the castle, but this time he made the sign of the very cross indeed, and spat." "The wind whistled all through the night, and other Welsh hymns. I arose early, made my toilet, sat on it, and then came down to breakfast.")