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Summary: The most boring of Benny Hill
Review: ...would have been a more appropriate title. Having watched the TV series in the 80s with much delight and pleasure, I was appalled and very disappointed what I watched on this DVD. Whoever was responsible to make this selection, deserves to be awarded with the order of "Humorless Bore". But, hey, if you need something to exercise your yawn muscles with, this is the right movie for you. I have given it one star, because it is not possible to select a zero. My final comment - a total waste of time and money.
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Summary: Benny Hill...well ahead of his time
Review: Ah yes. Benny Hill. Now there was classic slapstick comedy at its best. Perhaps one of the coolest comedians to come out of England, Benny Hill broke new ground in his brand of humor. Often pushing the envelope with racy sexy comedy for his time, he was a refreshing comedian more or less like a modern Chaplin with his silent comedy routines/sketches. This DVD seems to include his best moments from classic shows and it looks like it's going to be very good. If you never have been exposed to Mr Hill's humor, this is as good a place as any to give it a shot.
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Summary: CLASS A PERVERT!
Review: Benny Hill's "best of" DVD is a skit classic, Benny's play on words is probably what I love the most about his comedy and that talent is very apperent in his Garden of Love song, it is classic Benny Hill and my favorite part of this classic comedy DVD. Maybe not worth buying, but definitely worth watching.
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Summary: Uh yeah this IS the best of Benny Hill!
Review: Having grown up in Sydney, Australia during the 1970's I was exposed to a lot of Benny Hill and this DVD contains but a small portion of the funny and brilliant comedy programming Benny made which I grew up watching. I happen to like his early stuff from the 70's as opposed to the later stuff he did in the 80's. Lucky for me this compilation movie was made in the mid-70's and has made it to DVD. The skits on this DVD represent the original years of Hill's brand of humor and I love it. The only drawback is that since some of the skits were shot on video the quality isn't as good as the superb quality of the skits shot on 16mm. On the contrary the other DVD(s) available that covers Hill's later years contains the boring, mundane humor in my opinion. I am very much hoping that I can get some more Hill programming on DVD from the 1970's, as presented on this DVD because as I said this is but a mere taste of Hill's early era of original and very funny yet risque humor. There's a lot more he did back in the 70's which hasn't made it to DVD yet. A lot more.This DVD is the game and the others are lame.
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Summary: The most boring of Benny Hill
Review: I had VHS version with the same contents as this DVD. I decided to buy this dvd expecting to have better picture and some extras. These are my truly technical comments about this DVD: 1) No extra features! No subtitles at all! If a trailer is an extra then I'm wrong here. 2) Picture quality is really poor. It's so bad that my VHS version plays with much better picture quality than this DVD. (DVD Player is not the problem as it works fine with the rest of my DVD collection). Probably I will just throw it out and stay with VHS version. :( Contents of this disk is great!
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Summary: Horrible picture quality, but great contents!
Review: I had VHS version with the same contents as this DVD. I decided to buy this dvd expecting to have better picture and some extras. These are my truly technical comments about this DVD: 1) No extra features! No subtitles at all! If a trailer is an extra then I'm wrong here. 2) Picture quality is really poor. It's so bad that my VHS version plays with much better picture quality than this DVD. (DVD Player is not the problem as it works fine with the rest of my DVD collection). Probably I will just throw it out and stay with VHS version. :( Contents of this disk is great!
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Summary: Bloody good show!
Review: I loved watching Benny Hill on Saturday nights when I was a kid, now I can watch him anytime I want. The highlights are:
He's doing a cross-continent interview and continues to answer on question behind.
The talk show with the 107 year old man.
A bunch of skits like the bicycle tire pump.
The Garden of Love song
The story of the Birds and the Bees (She had the biggest Parakeets I've ever seen!)
The French Film director
And the false TV commercials
Benny Hill was a class act and his humor will live on forever.
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Summary: Where were the dancers???
Review: I would have appreciated a more balanced presentation of the show. This DVD just contained a series of skits. The skits were good, but it would have been nice to include some of the musical numbers. The Benny Hill Show was a 'variety' show after all. The video quality was very disappointing. If they didn't have a good enough master source, they shouldn't have released it. Overall, it was nice to see some of my favorite skits, but I didn't keep the disc.
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Summary: Definitely not the Best
Review: Only 1/8 of this CD was worth watching. The major portion of this CD was not funny. Some of the video had a washed out look as if from old tapes gone bad and the audio was not good in sections.
With all the good shows Benny Hill did, it is hard to imagine putting out a DVD with consistantly mediocre material.
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Summary: Definitely not the Best
Review: There really is no such thing as "bad" Benny Hill skits, but his earlier skits are far superior to what's on this DVD. A few gems such as the hospital sketch and "throw open your window" are scattered between other material that you can either take or leave. The transfer from Anchor Bay is excellent, and though lacking in bonus materials it's a decent disc for the price. Aficionados of the naughty ol' man will enjoy this disc, but newcomers to Benny Hill may want to catch re-runs on PBS before buying this. It's not the Best of Benny Hill, it's merely good.
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