Counting down the days to Christmas,I started looking for films/TV X-Mas Specials to watch. Looking on Netflix UK for themed flicks,I stumbled on the Blackadder special being on the site, which led to me once again seeing Blackadder's carol.
View on the special:
Made as they were starting to plan the 4th (and final) series, the script by Ben Elton & Richard Curtis shows the duo working like a well-oiled machine,from the opening send- up of the tradition Dickensian Christmas setting, to the hilarious episodic ghostly visions of X-Mas from the past and the future.
Merrily skipping over the wholesomeness which clogs up a number of Christmas specials, the writers cleverly give a moral sting in their loose take on A Christmas Carol, as Blackadder decides to no longer be a pushover, only to discover that he has slammed the door on the chance for some Christmas cheer.
Reunited with outstanding regular co-stars Stephen Fry, Miranda Richardson, a proto-Hagrid Robbie Coltrane, future Oscar winner Jim Broadbent and Hugh Laurie doing his future "House" US accent, Tony Robinson and Rowan Atkinson give fantastic performances, with Robinson hitting Baldricks mix of dim and disappointment over the lack of any Christmas presents, and Rowan Atkinson joyfully tearing up his initial morals, in Blackadder's reading of A Christmas Carol.
View on the special:
Made as they were starting to plan the 4th (and final) series, the script by Ben Elton & Richard Curtis shows the duo working like a well-oiled machine,from the opening send- up of the tradition Dickensian Christmas setting, to the hilarious episodic ghostly visions of X-Mas from the past and the future.
Merrily skipping over the wholesomeness which clogs up a number of Christmas specials, the writers cleverly give a moral sting in their loose take on A Christmas Carol, as Blackadder decides to no longer be a pushover, only to discover that he has slammed the door on the chance for some Christmas cheer.
Reunited with outstanding regular co-stars Stephen Fry, Miranda Richardson, a proto-Hagrid Robbie Coltrane, future Oscar winner Jim Broadbent and Hugh Laurie doing his future "House" US accent, Tony Robinson and Rowan Atkinson give fantastic performances, with Robinson hitting Baldricks mix of dim and disappointment over the lack of any Christmas presents, and Rowan Atkinson joyfully tearing up his initial morals, in Blackadder's reading of A Christmas Carol.