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Billy Connolly's travel programmes have some difficulty deciding if they are records of his stand-up tours or travelogues interrupted by the occasional comedy routine. Fortunately in his World Tour of England, Ireland and Wales the two elements complement one another more often than they distract from each other. This series, which sees Connolly traversing the respective countries on his trademark motorised tricycle, is agreeable if ultimately insubstantial viewing.
That Connolly is an engaging presenter is no surprise: he has, after all, constructed a successful career from an ability to get large numbers of strangers to like him. However, probably due to the here-today-gone-tomorrow logistics of touring, his insights into the places he visits tend to be fleeting and predictable: in Dublin he plays the banjo in a pub, in Belfast he visits the shipyards and the more picturesque Republican and Loyalist neighbourhoods, in London he climbs the tower at Westminster Palace that houses Big Ben, and so on. Nobody who watches this, especially, if they have any first-hand knowledge of the cities, is going to learn anything they didn't already know.
As if in acknowledgement of the lack of narrative weight, there are an awful lot of lingering aerial shots of the locations. But with less money spent on helicopter hire, and more time to get to grips with the locations and, more crucially, the people who live in them, Connolly could do much better than this.
On the DVD:: Billy Connolly's World Tour on disc has a clever and witty interactive menu map of the countries visited that also offers an assortment of random trivia relating to each location. The special features are a link to Connolly's official Web site, and a chance to hear some of the music from the series in isolation. --Andrew Mueller
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English
Aspect Ratio 16:9
Contains all eight episodes of the BBC series, Billy Connolly's World Tour of England, Ireland & Wales.
Bonus feature- audio only, contains seven songs from the series performed by Cara Dillon, Ralph Mc Tell, Tommy Sands and Billy Connolly.
Aspect Ratio 16:9
Contains all eight episodes of the BBC series, Billy Connolly's World Tour of England, Ireland & Wales.
Bonus feature- audio only, contains seven songs from the series performed by Cara Dillon, Ralph Mc Tell, Tommy Sands and Billy Connolly.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is the boxset filled with all the televised shows from billy connolys world tour. It features clips from various shows on his tour including live at Dublin.
You basically follow Billy around England, Ireland and Wales while he gives you a taste of the history, then you see him performing the following night at a concert.
The dvd also features some of the music used in the tour.
This item is an essential purchase for all Billy fans, and will make your belly ache with laughter!
You basically follow Billy around England, Ireland and Wales while he gives you a taste of the history, then you see him performing the following night at a concert.
The dvd also features some of the music used in the tour.
This item is an essential purchase for all Billy fans, and will make your belly ache with laughter!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This series appeals to many audiences: those looking to be entertained by travel, history, beautiful landscape - and, of course, Billy Connolly's excellent comedy! The balance between the tour of the countries and the comedic interludes is nicely done. Just when Billy's narration or anecdotes touch on the serious, a jokey aspect is injected to lighten the pace again. The series really does have something for everyone. It is not to be missed!
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Excellent stuff! Billy never goes wrong.....he is a brilliant man and comic. My problems is with Amazon. They advertised this title along with Billy Connolly Live - 2002 as a package and a great deal. What they should have told me is, its the same material on both DVDs! Its a shame when i spend so much money at Amazon, that i can not contact anyone there to tell them. After laughing so much, this misinformation has left a bitter taste.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Good fun plus interesting tour of the countryside
Not as good as the World Tour of Scotland series but still funny. The countryside features less and perhaps this is because of trying to cover too much in one series. Read more
Published 11 months ago by G. H. Kennedy
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Loved the Big yin as always, especially as he is well into trikes, that gives us something in common, although mine is a home grown VS1400 from Rhino trikes and Billy prefers... Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2007 by Trikertracey
Only for the young?
Billy Connolly is his usual hilarious self - but I bought this for my 80 year old mother and she was unable to hear all of the dialogue. Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2006 by Sheila Sanderson
the great Billy Connoly
This double DVD is superb, combining Billy driving and sometimes riding his motor trike over Britain and Ireland interspersed with extracts from his stage shows. Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2003 by Mike Cawood
Finally a home tour of Britain!
An excellent DVD box-set that mixes clips of the Big Yins legendary stand up peformances from his recent tour in 2001 with clips of him visiting famous landmarks and places around... Read more
Published on 18 Sep 2002
Superb
Having watched the series I looked forward to the DVD edition. The one reason I wanted the DVD, simple the soundtrack. Read more
Published on 16 Sep 2002 by Michael Shaw
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