BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

alexeykorovin It's a cartoon series with dark humor which is absolutely fun to watch. The series shows the UK (which is in most respects quite similar to other EU countries) from its dark "insider" perspective, something you would rarely see on TV or in movies. Here you will find a gay guy who struggles to find a partner, a wrongly accused murderer who spent 27 years in prison and forgot how to live a normal life, a hilarious "classically trained actor", a group of "wankers" who talk about completely useless things, then another group of idle young people who have nothing to do or talk about and end up playing Russian roulette, a suicidal father and so on. The images are frequently very violent which might turn off some people. But actually I would recommend this series to everyone except maybe small kids. Most characters who die in some of the episodes are alive again in the next episode - typical for comedies, it's more like a cycle or a snapshot of reality rather than a long story split into scenes (although some of the sub-plots do develop across episodes). The satire here is very smart, really British-level smart. E.g. I could hardly imagine such a series appearing in the US, for comparison. Some jokes here have very deep meaning and stay in your head for a long time. This show is so great that it totally deserves to be released on DVD, translated to other languages (German, Russian, Spanish etc). It's a true gem! Frankly, I am happy that in case of this series the artistic genius totally prevailed over suits, marketing and political correctness.

Arthur Novikov Monkey dust strikes me as something that only a person with the mentality of a 15-year old could enjoy. The commercialistic, corruption and capitalistic themes that come up are overly obvious, thus loosing the touch of hyperbolisation, because the whole show is so over the top, you expect every frame of it to be exactly what it is. The reoccurring characters are one-sided, and have no depth, for they do the same thing over and over again. The guy, who never gets what he wants and is watched, the middle-aged man who comes back to his wife, and tells her that he did something, and then she points it out that it's the plot of a song/show/book/movie, and then he admits to doing something like "being a cum-dumpster in a anonymous bukkake", the child with the father hating mother-divorcée, the paedofinder general, and others do the same thing over and over again, and sadly, it becomes boring after the first witnessing. Also, oftenly the "joke" is stretched out for the sake of showing how horrific and macabre everything around them is, but with the first part of the joke(and the remaining part of it) overinflated, the show gets lost in the concept of shock. To introduce shock, no matter if it is considering culture/nature/greed/etc, you need contrast. Example - Baraka. In monkey dust, the point is, I guess, to show people that the world is wicked, and everyone is screwed up in their own way. Sadly, there is no contrast, and the viewer gets used to the setting, gets used to the fact that everything will go wrong, that everyone will be cruel, that babies will curse, that children will die, and that lie,rape,sodomy,burglary will rule the day, and no suffering will be shown. The idea is to show, again, I guess, that the public is blindly dominated by the onslaught of different media, thus no reaction is gotten from it when introduced to a stupid commercialistic concept, but this idea is again, overinflated, and it just seems that the people are better off like this, unsuspecting, unknowing. With no contrast, we don't get the shock. With no knowledge of what is good and what is bad we cannot laugh at the bad and see that all light has gone. In short - overrated, one sided, no depth, reoccurring theme, no variety, no plot.

jpt27 'Monkey Dust' contains the most ****ed up humour you will ever see broadcast on terrestrial television. It's one of those rare moments where you wonder if the grey-faced executives who OK'd the show's production knew quite what they were letting themselves in for. At least South Park was barefacedly crude.Monkey Dust could have easily been great art, although luckily for us audiences, the creators have used their undeniable artistic flair and creative verve to sacrifice the art and wring the carcass until comedy comes splitting out the sides. This is comedy so messed up, so deeply deeply wrong, that most of the laughs come without the need for punchlines. It's very rare for a show to create situations which are just inherently funny. Monkey Dust has them like pearls on a string.The show, half an hour long, comprises a series of interlinked sketches, with returning characters competing with one-off spectaculars. I like shows like this; they have an ongoing sense of when the comedy has been fully developed. The animation is done in a kind of new-wave, post - computer graphics style, a good blend of hand drawn and computer animation. Different studios worked on different sketches, and so there's a lot of variety in the half hour.And now for the content. Monkey Dust has been described as Little Britain's older, edgier, criminally insane brother, and that's not such a bad way of summarising it. Both shows deal with everyday situations going on around the British Isles, and however mental the comedy may be, we're really laughing at the fact that what's being shown is not so very different from reality. Three flagship characters include a nameless elderly paedophile and his attempts to groom young girls on internet chat rooms; Steve the First-Time Cottager, whose attempts to lead a flamboyant homosexual lifestyle are hopelessly at odds with his modesty and shyness (the first time we see him he is reading a self-help book called Yes! I Can Gobble Off A Complete Stranger;) and my personal favourite, Ivan Dobsky the Meat Safe Murderer. Ivan was an friendly, innocent Liverpool lad before he was locked up 27 years ago for a crime he did not commit. Campaigning celebs have finally got him acquitted, unaware that police and prison brutality have turned him into an utter, utter psychopath. "Hullo I'm Ivan Dobsky the meat safe murderer, only I never done it, I only said I done it so the police men would take the rat out of me anus." Monkey Dust works so well because not only have they found comedy in the most unlikely of places, but because they even went looking for it in the first place. Occasionally the humour hits hard when a sketch begins with picturesque domestic bliss, because you know that in about thirty seconds time the rug is going to be pulled - hard. It also runs the risk of alienation when it makes fun of characters who closely resemble you and your friends. But the show never goes for a cheap gag, and that's admirable in a post- 'Friends' world.If you're after some dark comedy which is going to stay with you for a unconsensually long time, then Monkey Dust might just be the gimp suit that fits.

Monstro-1 Monkey dust is not a show you should let your kids watch. Or your parents. In fact, Monkey Dust is pretty much unsuitable for everyone. Basically, It makes South Park look like Scooby-Doo.Its a very fast-paced cartoon sketch show, mostly set in london, its all very grim and bleak. Topics it covers include Pedophilia, suicide, child murder, and the Nazis. The funniest moment so far was "The Diary of Anne Frank" as made by Jerry Bruckenheimer. Its not pure comic genius, its dirty, dark and filthy comic genius.Its compulsive viewing if you're into stuff like Brass Eye, Big Train or Jam. I cannot recommend it enough.