League of Gentlemen Vol 1 [VHS]
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Artist: League of GentlemenEdition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 88 minutes
Release Date: 2000-10-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: BBC Warner
Studio: BBC Warner
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Movie Review: Hello, Dave? Wanna buy a peg?
Summary: 5 Stars
Surreal, cruel, and devistatingly funny. Imagine Monty Python meets South Park and you getting close... sort of. League of Gentlemen is set in the small rural town of Royston Vasey, a fine example of isolated parochial culture rot. On the surface everything seems so quaint and charming. As the show progresses one thing becomes apparent, these people are really screwed up. Most of the people of Royston Vasey are character studies portrayed with biting wit. The acting and writing for this show are all top notch. A word of warning: this show is not for everyone. You will either love it or hate it. I love it. I also like South Park, Strangers with Candy, and Ab FAb, if that is any help.
Summary of League of Gentlemen Vol 1 [VHS]
Are you local? You are if you know The League of Gentlemen, the award-winning team who burned the remote town of Royston Vasey into the psyche of a nation. In a tour de force that has been called "Monty Python meets Twin Peaks," three actors bring an entire community of hilariously inbred characters to life. Once you're hooked on The League of Gentlemen and Royston Vasey, you'll never leave. EPISODE 1 - Welcome to Royston Vasey
Ben struggles to take in Auntie Val and Uncle Harvey's incomprehensible house rules, while Martin poses a threat to the precious things in Tubbs and Edward's Local Shop. At the local job center, Pauline is furious when someone lands an interview without her help. Taxi driver Babs makes middling progress through her sex change.
EPISODE 2 - The Road to Royston Vasey
The new road is good new for everyone except Tubbs and Edward. Pauline coaches a workshop in selling The Big Issue, and we meet butcher Hilary Briss, video hounds Henry and Ally, and the formidable Reverend Bernice.
EPISODE 3 - Nightmare in Royston Vasey
Tubbs sees a map and discovers the world beyond Royston Vasey. Pauline buckles under pressure in the interview techniques workshop, and a terrible discovery is made on the road building site.
In some grim and isolated corner of northern England lurks the town of Royston Vasey, where the local cab driver is a hirsute preoperative transsexual, the local butcher sells his special stuff to select customers, and the local employment counselor thinks people are like pens: "If they don't work, you shake 'em. If they still don't work, you chuck 'em away!" But if you're not local, you should steer clear of the local shop, no matter how tempted you are by its precious things.
To call The League of Gentlemen a black comedy would be an understatement. Its bleak humor owes as much to Samuel Beckett as it does to Monty Python, so those who like their laughs served warm are in for a shock. The show is the most wickedly inventive comedy to come out of Britain since Eddie and Patsy staggered onto our screens in Absolutely Fabulous, and like that groundbreaking series it proudly ignores the boundaries of good taste. Part sketch comedy, part bizarre soap opera, the narrative jumps back and forth between more than a dozen major characters, all played by the three performers who cowrote the show. These characters range from the odd--a vet who accidentally kills all of his patients--to the thoroughly disturbing, like Edward and Tubbs, the inbred proprietors of the Local Shop, who are willing to go to any lengths to prevent the building of a new road through their beloved town. You have never seen anything like The League of Gentlemen, but like butcher Hilary Briss's special customers, you're sure to be back for more.
This tape contains the first three episodes of the series: "Welcome to Royston Vasey," "The Road to Royston Vasey," and "Nightmare in Royston Vasey." --Simon Leake
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