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DVD : Bo Selecta - Series 1 - Complete [2002]
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Bo Selecta - Series 1 - Complete [2002] starring: Leigh Francis, Patsy Kensit, Caroline Flack, Craig Phillips, Michelle Heaton |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5014138070144 Format: Anamorphic, PAL Label: 2 Entertain Video Manufacturer: 2 Entertain Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 2 Entertain Video Region Code: 2 Release Date: June 16, 2003 Running Time: 140 minutes Studio: 2 Entertain Video Theatrical Release Date: 2003 Sales Rank: 13798 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Featuring Avid Merrion as the Scandinavian stalker/host and sketches in which he plays the parts of pop stars like Craig David and Britney Spears in lurid, latex masks, Bo' Selecta! is a brilliantly surreal take on celebrity culture. This first series (originally broadcast in 2002) features a number of cameos and guest appearances from minor celebs: Boyzone's Keith Duffy, Davina McCall, Vanessa Feltz and the hapless Christine Hamilton, one of numerous guests to be interviewed by a puppet bear played by Merrion whose feverish line of questioning invariably results in him sprouting a little erection. Another character is hauled up in a neckbrace (following an altercation with Lisa Tarbuck), but Merrion's innocent broken English can't conceal the fact that he's a psychotic sex maniac who explicitly lusts after celebs who "make me do a sex wee", keeps Craig from Big Brother locked in a cupboard and his dead mother in a wardrobe. Merrion's pop spoofs are also masterly: rather than mimic the stars, he reinvents them--Mel B and Britney Spears--as farting, hairy-chested Northerners, slobbing out on fry-up breakfasts washed down with lager and, most improbably, Michael Jackson as a cussing, jive-talking black dude à la Huggy Bear. Bo' Selecta! doesn't so much satirise celebrities as debase them, exposing their humiliating none-dimensionality by drawing them into a vortex of vulgar absurdity, not unlike Vic Reeves' Shooting Stars. Of course, they play along--they're on television. Although initially off-putting to some, once you get into Bo' Selecta! there is, as for Big Brother's Craig, no escape. On the DVD: Bo' Selecta! on disc features numerous extras, including a behind the scenes feature in which the production team discuss making the show ("like directing a squirrel on roller-skates"), deleted scenes including Gareth Gates as a Tourette's victim, which was deemed a little beyond the pale, some unfunny bloopers and a feature on the life story of "Craig David" with Kate Thornton, including an unmissable nativity scene in which the infant Craig plays Jesus. There's also a commentary, with Merrion as his stalker self watching himself with consternation (It's strange seeing yourself on TV"). It's a pity we don't get to hear from the "real" Merrion. --David Stubbs Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - cretinous claptrap, vaccuous and vomit-inducing.the 'talents' lurking and skulking behind this snide, obnoxious 'work' are exploitative charlatans who milk the most vulnerable, braindead, unthinking elements in society today: i.e.fans of this rancid, unsavoury feces.... I have already been criticized for daring to speak out against this, er, 'show', but I feel it represents a particular low-point in the field of non-entertainment, I cannot see a single point of merit within this uninspired dross, on any level [even taking into account the undemanding requirements of the low-grade viewers it is aimed at]. 'don't watch it'I am repeatedly told, and this is sound advice I wholeheartedly accept. Rating:  - It were proper bo i tell thee!Bo' Selecta is now my favourite programe. I find it hard to belive Avid Merrion gets away with it. The latex masked celebrities such as Craig David, Mel B, Michael Jackson, Davina McCall and loads more, appear in the programe along with Avid protesting his unhealthy facination for celebrities and "The Bear" a 13 year old bear that lives up a tree on Hampstead Heath with his friend Steven, The bear interviews celebrities in his tree house and Steven often popps in and squeaks at the celebrities in a naughty way, the bear then translates it to them. The celebrities are usualy very shocked and this causes a chance for them to hurl abuse at Steven. Bo' Selecta offers an amusing take on the world of celebrities and realises fame and popularity ... Read More: Rating:  - Perhaps the funniest, most original new comedyI must admit I was shocked. Not by the content of this DVD no...nor the one following it...no...I was shocked by the fact that at the Comedy Awards, Avid Merrion received niente for perhaps the funniest and most original comedy of this century. His impressions of famous celebrities aren't impressions in themselves, in fact he completely recreates them. All the impressions have a horrible case of Turet's, but this makes them all the more appealing. The frightening Yorkshire portrayal of Mel B, the long chinned Will Young, the balling Osbornes. All these characters are good fun, overshadowed and presented by freaky, frightening, Transylvanian Avid. We know Transylvanians are scary...check out the Cheeky Girls...but Avid is ... Read More: Rating: - It's proper bo I tell thee.This is very funny. It's not as stupid as it looks . You've got to give it a chance. This is more than a foreign celebrity stalker saying rude things and people in masks with northern accents pretending to be celebrties. It's actually a lot more sophisticated than that but it might take a few watches to realise. I know it did for me. Self-parody at it's best. Once you've 'got it', you'll just find it hilarious. Lots of extras on the DVD as well. A good buy. Rating: - When I say Bo say SelectaHas to be one of the funniest channel 4 tv shows since South Park.Just give this ten years then people will be calling it a classic.Join Avid Marrion in his wild journey to follow celebs (including cameo appearences with some).Aided by "The Bear" and rubber masked celebrities from Craig David to Michael Jackson. The DVD is a must have, it has some great outtakes and deleted scenes and a commentry on every episode so go and buy it. CAN I GET A REWIND! |
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