Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

millennium-4 This series has been standby Netflicks viewing for me when I cannot seem to find anything without violence and crass humor. Having walked through the Dales as long ago as the early sixties I recognize much of the scenery and the characters.I am like many others who seem to prefer the early series with Carol Drinkwater and Mary Hignett. Replacing Carol must have been a hard process. The later series did one very good thing which was to improve the theme music. The earlier version had a percussion section that must been pasted in later and sounded like a complete tea set and box of cutlery being thrown down a set of stairs. And speaking of comic relief...the humor provided by Peter Davison as Tristan at times had me wincing. I could not quite believe that such an out an out conniving self absorbed pratt as Tristan could have been accepted either in the practice or in a small Yorkshire town. Davison acts the role perfectly, but I would have watched the series had it not included his scenes. Occasionally I could not quite swallow James's naiveté. The real stars of this show were the hundreds of local character actors who played walk on parts over the years, not to mention a never ending supply of compliant small animals willing to sit quietly while being examined, poked and fumbled and a never ending supply of cows ready to calve at the directors command.As for Robert Hardy...whenever I watch Martin Clunes in the excellent Doc Martin I am tempted to say "you were not the first to portray an iconoclastic medical role in a rural setting with colorful locals to play off".Hardy was superb but seemed tired in later episodes, however without his anchoring role the series would have been too cozy and tedious.In summary, one of the best TV series ever made. Up there with M.A.S.H., Midsomer Murders, Poirot and Barney Miller

Bob Shank One of the most terrific things about this great (even dramatic) long-lived British television series is that it had nothing to do with animals. Aside the confluence of wonderful animal husbandry with succinct British life-styles before-and-after the war, the human content is almost immeasurable. What we've all enjoyed so much about this incredible production is the inter-arrangement, personal and day-to-day trials within a close-knit family-owned business. It continues because of 'values' we've often treasured - and still long for. It's watched because it's incredibly engaging. And it's treasured not only for its immaculate and natural filming/editing/scoring/dialog - but for the characters who made it 'real' in our lives. Don't believe me? Watch the current 're-creation' of it in 'Duck Dynasty.' ...and how BIG is that?

oscar-35 Spoiler/plot- All Creatures Great and Small, 1978. The film explores the life and career of a veterinary in the rural English countryside. His patients, friends, co-workers, and the people of his village through the tough years between 1930 to 1950.*Special Stars- Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davidson, Carol Drinkwater. *Theme- Nature is a wonder to be appreciated.*Trivia/location/goofs- Based on a best selling book. Shot in the farmland Yorkshire 'Dales', north/west central counties of England. 'James Harriot's' wife role was re-casted with a different actress after the TV show came back after two years(two successive year's Christmas Specials) and post-WW2 in the story line with two Harriot children added to the cast. Peter 'Tristan' Davidson went on to play the lead role in the longest running TV science fiction show, 'Doctor Who'. The household dogs of Robert 'Seigfried' Hardy were his real household pets used in the show's filming.*Emotion- A completely charming, satisfying, entertaining, enjoyable, and heartwarming TV show on an unusual subject, a small rural veterinary medicine practice. It enjoyably follows a veterinary's hard life and it explores their larger issues of human nature and people's relationship to their farm livestock and pets in a rural setting. Beautifully shot, written, acting, cast and paced, this series delightfully shows viewers a little about the English village people and maybe a little about ourselves.

Eowyn1967 I was led to buy the first two DVDs from the glowing comments I read on this site and from having really enjoyed James Herriot's books which I've read and reread over the years. Well, books do not age or hardly but films (and TV films most especially) do. So I really do not recommend buying those DVDs unless one is nostalgic of static camera work, slow pace, bad special effects and mediocre acting from all but Robert Hardy, the actor portraying Siegfried (but I never pictured him that way from reading the book - I think he's described as tall, dark and elegant, and I imagined him much, much younger...). In fact neither I nor my children have been able to finish watching the 2nd DVD. I've seldom watched something so slow-paced. I suppose in any case that much of Herriot's humour comes from exaggeration and choice of words, and that's probably next to impossible to render on screen...