Watson & Oliver
Watson & Oliver
| 20 February 2012 (USA)
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  • Reviews
    Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!
    Majorthebys Charming and brutal
    Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
    Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
    chazwyman As a female duo, Watson and Oliver will naturally invite comparisons with French and Saunders. It's unfair to compare it to such a prolific sketch show and W&O has many, many funny moments. It strikes me as a little odd when a sketch show this new, made by relative newcomers, is slated for not being comparable to the greatest British female comedy double act of all time. It's true that some of their ideas are supposedly "recycled", however, this is the case with most comedians and sketch shows and very often the old ideas are the best. As well as that, if you don't find any of their facial expressions amusing on some level, then you can be considered officially without a soul.
    jacko07 I was really embarrassed as I watched Watson & Oliver trying very hard to be funny. The whole show was very old hat and second rate. It had all been done better and funnier years ago. I painfully watched the first episode and some of the others before giving up. Any so called comedian can trawl the archives and steal sketches, change them slightly and have the cheek to say it is new. Unfortunately it is happening all the time, there are a lot of deceased writers and comedians having their work copied by unfunny charlatans.Who at the BBC commissioned this dire stuff. Watson & Oliver conned this overpaid not very bright commissioning editor and his bosses. The whole lot should be fired along with Watson & Oliver.
    agnesvalkay If Watson and Oliver want to be the new French and Saunders they've failed. They're more like the new Horne and Corden. Yes it really is that bad.The problem is one that seems to exist in most modern British comedy series, especially on the BBC. There's a belief that silly voices, wigs, repetitive catch phrases and absurdity is inherently funny. It's not.There is no subtlety in the writing or the performances. People deliberately being inept or stupid isn't funny. People with delusions of grandeur who fail are more likely to be. Watson and Oliver feels like watching kids playing dress up. It's not a performance, it's just showing off.It's a pity because there isn't enough female comedy on TV. Watson is a good presenter and Oliver is a decent actress but they're not a comedy double act that anyone is going to warm to. They're too much like Hazell and Pepperdine when they should be Morecambe and Wise.
    benjamin-twist I just started watching this on BBC2 and I can't watch any more. I really can't. It's so pathetic and annoyingly unfunny. Watson and Oliver are the BBC's latest comedy 'find' and I wish they'd left them where they found them. This is so derivative it's embarrassing. It's like they watched the last series of French and Saunders (the totally shameless, doing-it-for-the-money, unfunny one where Dawn and Jennifer were both past it) and decided to copy it lock, stock and barrel. Throw in a bit of Catherine Tate, some Julie Walters (Ms Walters please sue) and copious amounts of truly irritating canned laughter and - hey presto - a crap series by two Z grade comedians.What's on? Watson and Oliver. My advice is to switch off.