Overview
Writers:
Richard Curtis (television series "The Black Adder", "Blackadder II", "Blackadder the Third" and "Blackadder Goes Forth") &
Rowan Atkinson (television series "The Black Adder") ...
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Plot:
At a New Millennium Eve party Blackadder and Baldrick test their new time machine and ping pong through history encountering famous characters and changing events rather alarmingly....
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Awards:
1 nomination
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User Comments:
a delightful old favorite gets a makeover
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| Richard Curtis | | television series "The Black Adder", "Blackadder II", "Blackadder the Third" and "Blackadder Goes Forth" & |
| Rowan Atkinson | | television series "The Black Adder" & |
| Ben Elton | | television series "Blackadder II", "Blackadder the Third" and "Blackadder Goes Forth"
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| Richard Curtis | | (writer) & |
| Ben Elton | | (writer)
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Also Known As:
Time for Blackadder (UK) (working title)
Untitled Blackadder Millennium Project (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
33 min
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1
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Fun Stuff
Trivia:
At the dinner party at the beginning, a portrait of Captain Blackadder from
"Blackadder Goes Forth" (1989) is positioned on the wall behind the present Blackadder.
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Goofs:
Anachronisms: When Blackadder exits the time machine in the Elizabethan era, the lights in the basement are electric wall lights and couldn't have featured in an Elizabethan building.
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Quotes:
Blackadder:
You really are as thick as clotted cream, that's been left out by some clot, and now the clots are so clotted, you couldn't unclot them with an electric de-clotter, aren't you, Baldrick?
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Old BBC shows are lovely, so low-budget and witty and strange.
To a lover of literature and history like myself, Blackadder stands as possibly the funniest sitcom of all time. Like Doctor Who, it was cheap, but I didn't give a fig...it was simply ten times cleverer than anything on American television, and I loved it. At first, I was dubious about this millennium special - I didn't think that Blackadder really needed a big-budget makeover, special effects, etc. But in the end, "Back and Forth" served its purpose for me. I laughed. Lots. Maybe I would've liked a little more wit and a few less sight gags, but so what? It's been ten years since the original Blackadder went off the air, and it's unreasonable to expect that a new special will emulate the old show exactly. And in addition to the new material, there's plenty of nostalgic jokes on hand (e.g. "I have a cunning plan"...why do people complain that this was recycled here? Can you image Blackadder WITHOUT this line?).
Like the recent big-budget Doctor Who and Asterix films, this was criticized by fans who were disappointed that it wasn't 4 stars all the way...but a general audience can forgive the odd flaw and accept this for what it is, a delightful reunion of great British comics for one last episode of a great show.