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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Maddie & David? Like seeing old friends again.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Moonlighting [DVD] (DVD)
I was an enormous fan of moonlighting for the five years that it ran for a myriad of reasons than go beyond this review. So I was very quick to buy the Moonlighting DVD that included 1.The Pilot 2. The Lady in the Iron Mask & 3. A womb with a view. The Lady in the Iron Mask is taken from the 1st season & A Womb with a View from the final season. The one thing that ruined the DVD was in 'The Lady in the Iron Mask' the soundtrack to the whole episode is not the original one that we heard on TV when it was originally trasmitted in England, which was a sort of haunting female synthesized vocal that was again used in a future episode. You can ALMOST forgive the new repetitive soundtrack but why does it ruin it so much? Well simply, the last scene (the chase) had one of the most memorable funny scenes that Moonlighting produced (Maddie, David & two others all dressed up as the same woman running through a hotel corridor) which was originally set to a famous classical cavalier style racing piece (can't think of the title but you would know it if you heard it) this music added to the humour of the chase & made you roll around with laughter. But NO! they even changed that & the scene was flat & not half as funny. You may think I'm being picky but I have the original on tape & if you compare the two I believe you would totally agree with me. Does anyone have any idea why the original soundtrack was disgarded? lost perhaps? The rest of the DVD is great fun & brings back warm memories. Thanks
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The magic of Moonlighting,
By Nicola Taunt (York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Moonlighting - Box Set [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Moonlighting was the best series of the eighties and little has touched it in the intervening years.The sparkling dialogue still shines, fuelled by the wonderful chemistry between the lead characters, the strait-laced but feisty Maddie and the wisecracking, impulsive David. Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis vividly brought their characters to life and the sexual tension between them fairly crackles. The writing and acting, everything in fact is just as good as I remember it. This box set took me right back to the mid-to-late eighties when me and my friends spent our maths lesson obssessing over what happened to and between David and Maddie the night before rather than paying attention to calculus and trigonometry. There was no better way to spend a Tuesday morning! The only criticism I have is the odd choices in what appears to be a 'best of' box set. We've got the pilot and final episodes but why aren't some of the really classic epiosdes here? Where is 'Atomic Shakespeare', Moonlighting's sublime take on The Taming of the Shrew? Where is 'The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice' which segued to a black and white 1940's film noir with Maddie and David dreaming about a 40-year old murder? And what about the quartet of episodes where Maddie and David finally scratched the itch all the audience had been wanting them to scratch since the first season? This is wonderful, quality television that hasn't dulled with time even if the fashions and Bruce Willis' hair have. I can only hope that more episodes are released in the very near future! Brilliant stuff!
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent value for almost 7 hours of shear magic.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Moonlighting - Box Set [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Don't be fooled by this box set only having 8 episodes. At only a few minutes under 7 hours duration it is a defining anthology of a classic comedy-drama.From the first to the last episode each tape contains the most relevant stories to the complete series. The titles are: The Pilot / The Lady in the Iron Mask / A Womb with a View / Those Lips, Those Lies / Perfetc / When Girls Collide / Eine Kleine Nacht Murder / Lunar Eclipse. Classic TV doesn't date and these are timeless. If you are old enough to have watched the series first time around then you will love this compilation. If you are a die-hard Willis fan (no pun intended) of his action films then you maybe pleasantly surprise to find a young Bruce full of life and action but with hair. Only twice in my life have I encountered an American TV series where I cannot wait for the next installment, Moonlighting and the first 3 series of Friends. That's how rivetting this programme was for me. Now for a very brief synopsis for anyone who does not have a clue to what Moonlighting was. Back in 1985 a pilot TV movie was made. It starred Cybill Shepherd as Maddie Hayes (an ex-model) and Bruce Willis as David Addison ( a P.I.). Without spoiling the plot, Maddie finds herself as part of a detective agency called "Blue Moon Investigations". The series (in full and on this box set centres around the relationships of the Maddie/David and Agnes/Herbert (Who? You ask. Don't ask, just watch and learn and you will see why I choose the word anthology at the beginning of this review). So for only a few short years (1985/89) a huge number of teenage evenings were livened up by the subtle humour and drama of Moonlighting. If serious crime fighting is more your scene then stick to Miss Marple. If, however, you like a good, clean laugh, a touch of variety-show, very silly chases, the occassional crime to bust and very bad poetry then this is for you. The comedy elememnt, I find, is spot on. No disgusting/improper innuendos, minimal tasteful slipstick, no bad language. The vast amount of the laughs are gained through the shows tongue-in-cheek comedy. Hang on a mo, this makes me sound like a prude. I love Chubby Brown and Carry On, but a time and a place. The point here being two tapes rate PG and one at 12 the shows are for general appeal. Now, to be honest it was an old girlfriend of mine who first introduced me to the show, but I watched it, hooked to it years after we split. My wife loves the series also (come on who didn't). So I bought her this box set and as we snuggled on the couch together I reministed and fell in love with Moonlighting all over again. I think I shall be watching these tapes many more times than my wife. Don't get me wrong these shows are not way of recapturing my teenage years, indeed the programmes are just as fresh and lively today as they were all those years ago. O.K. so it gained a cult status with teenagers but it wasn't driven by teenage angst which spurred so many shows and films of that era. So to finalise, BUY IT! WATCH IT!! LOVE IT!!! Thanks for reading.
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