Amazon.co.uk Review
The success of
The Fast Show has always relied on the number of sketches devoted to your favourite characters. While this, the last ever series, suffers a little for the loss of Caroline Aherne (presumably busy with
The Royle Family?), and from the fact that those sketches based on a single catch-phrase or joke--Jessie's Diets, "Which was nice", and even the cough-prone Bob Fleming--seem to be running out of steam, the show's more rounded creations are all back and still going strong. Swiss Tony has emerged from therapy a new man, Colin Hunt gets the sack from his beloved office job and Ralph struggles on with his unrequited love for handyman Ted. There are new characters: a ragged, Charlton Heston-like astronaut who runs into different situations screaming, "What year is this? Who is the President?!", and a cynical, middle-aged woman who meets every note of human kindness she encounters with a sarcastic "Hah!", are particular standouts. However, as always, the series works best when the regular characters collide with contemporary phenomena, so here we have Indecisive Dave being phoned by a friend who's appearing on
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?; the "Suits You!" tailors harassing an incognito Johnny Depp; the cheeky criminal stealing a child's Pokémon cards; John Actor playing hard-nosed interior designer Laurence Lewellyn Monkfish in
Changing Monkfish; the send-up of recent gangster Brit flicks
A Right Royal Barrel of Cockney Monkeys (populated entirely by pseudo-cockney public schoolboys); and a sketch in which Channel 9's gardening presenter is assisted by a topless woman. Nice Dimmocks! --
Paul Philpott
Special Features
DVD 9
DVD 5
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital English
Dolby Digital
From the Back Cover
See your favourite Fast Show characters for (possibly) the very last time in a video so hot, it's like making love to a beautiful woman...
There's Dave Angel Eco Warrior, Ted and Ralph, Arthur Atkinson, Jazz Club, Bob Fleming (coughing his way through the last ever Country Matters Show), Dave The Hairbrush and The Cardinal - "you mug, you slag, you muppet" - in the spoof film "A Right Royal Barrel of Cockney Monkeys." It's also your chance to say goodbye to Ron Manager who, fed up and shagged out is leaving the Beeb to join the greed-filled scum at ITV. Oh, and there's, oooh sir, there's Johnny Depp, trying his very, very best in a suits you sketch.
"Listen, you don't wanna leave this video lying around. It's just that it's the last one ever, right, which makes it priceless, like an antique or something and someone might nick it. Don't lend it to me either 'cos I'm a little bit woor, a little bit wayy, a bit tasty. I'm a geezer!" - Chris the Crafty Cockney
