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Director:
Paul Weiland
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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Genre:
Short | Comedy | History | Sci-Fi more
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.... full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
Rowan Atkinson Unharmed After Crash
 (From WENN. 10 July 2001)

User Comments:
Great reunion, for actors and fans. more (40 total)

Cast

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Directed by
Paul Weiland 
 
Writing credits
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"

Richard Curtis (writer) &
Ben Elton (writer)

Produced by
Peter Bennett-Jones .... executive producer
Sophie Clarke-Jervoise .... producer
Marigo Kehoe .... line producer
Geoffrey Perkins .... executive producer
 
Original Music by
Howard Goodall 
 
Cinematography by
Tony Pierce-Roberts 
 
Film Editing by
Guy Bensley 
 
Production Design by
Andrew Howe-Davies 
 
Art Direction by
Nic Pallace 
 
Costume Design by
Hazel Pethig 
 
Makeup Department
Jan Sewell .... makeup designer
 
Art Department
Kevin Day .... stand-by prop
Peter Hallam .... property master
 
Sound Department
Philip Meehan .... adr editor
 
Special Effects by
Colin Shulver .... art finisher
Colin Shulver .... creature sculptor
 
Visual Effects by
Sean Danischevsky .... digital compositor: Magic Camera Company
Max Dennison .... digital matte artist
Sarah Lockwood .... digital compositor
Daniel Pettipher .... digital supervisor
Andy Stevens .... visual effects camera assistant: Millfilm
 
Stunts
Marc Cass .... stunts (as Mark Cass)
Joss Gower .... stunt double: Rowan Atkinson
Steve Griffin .... stunts
Richard Hammatt .... stunt coordinator
Paul Heasman .... stunt coordinator
Tony Lucken .... stunts
Lee Sheward .... stunt coordinator
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Sam Goldie .... camera trainee
Rawdon Hayne .... assistant camera
Andrew Shields .... video playback operator
Philip Sindall .... camera operator
 
Other crew
Adam Browne .... location manager
Sue Calverley .... production coordinator
Gavin Charlton .... sous chef
Peppy Dickinson .... stand-in
Simon Giles .... title designer: closing title sequence
Paul Jackson .... health and safety
Charles Jiminez .... stand-in
Paul Kirkby .... stand-in
Nathaniel McCullagh .... floor runner
Paul Mortimer .... unit paramedic
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Time for Blackadder (UK) (working title)
Untitled Blackadder Millennium Project (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
33 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS 70 mm
Certification:
Australia:PG | Singapore:PG

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Writers trademark (random black extras). Although they are not correct to the period, black extras can be seen in the Robin Hood and Elizabethan scenes because of a long-running joke between Richard Curtis and Lenny Henry who apparently always complains that he could have been the extra instead. more
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. more
Quotes:
Blackadder: [punches Shakespeare] That is for every schoolboy and schoolgirl for the next 400 years. Have you any idea how much suffering you're going to cause? Hours spent at school desks trying to find *one* joke in "A Midsummer's Night Dream", wearing stupid tights in school plays and saying things like, "What ho, my Lord," and, "Oh, look, here comes Othello talking total crap as usual." more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga (2008) (TV) more

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8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Great reunion, for actors and fans., 17 September 2001
6/10
Author: Raleon from New Brunswick, Canada

Blackadder Back and Forth was, or seems to be, meant as a collector's film for fans of Blackadder, and also as a fun reunion for the actors at the millennium. That is, it started out with the same motif as the other Blackadder series: just to have fun and be funny. Though Back and Forth is only funny as an addition to the other Blackadder's, not by itself. All the other series' could be funny on their own. This movie isn't a disappointment if you realize that it's just a wrap up put together for fun at the turn of the millenium, it wasn't meant to be like the other Blackadders, and it certainly isn't. It's a mere following of some of the characters throughout time, which is funny in itself, especially the part with the Romans and the short skirts.

The only real disappoint I had was the loss of Percy Percy. Even in the "Making of a Blackadder" they seemed to avoid talking about Percy Percy deliberately. I think it's great to see Tim McInnerny as more than one role in the series: Darling and Percy (and Smedly), because he's such a terrific and underrated actor, but I loved him the most as Percy and I miss that character. I know he doesn't want to be pigeon-holed as just one character, and he shouldn't be, but it would have been great to see both Percy and Darling in one film.

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