Customer Reviews:
Good clean twisted sexy fun.......2008-02-12
The BBC is still able to pull a masterpiece from out of left field. Still able to leave you compulsively watching something that, by turns, makes you laugh and feel sick inside a matter of minutes.
Here we have the family business, the young couple struggling to cope with marriage and the driven mysterious loner with a mission. And we have little of what you'd expect.
I hesitate to say too much but if you've enjoyed The League Of Gentlemen you'll love this.
A lot of the show takes place in a lap-dancing club. There you go, nuff said.
Brilliant, Dark, Macabre and Hilarious.......2007-12-27
A fantastic piece - perfectly executed on every level (direction, photography, music) with stand-out performances from Frances Barber as the ageing trophy wife of hard man Shirley Woolf and Philip Jackson heart-wrenching as seedy B&B owner Leo Finch.
Wonderful, underrated series.......2007-12-20
This is the sort of series with it with its extravagant, sometimes over-the-top black humour and complex plotting which could have gone seriously wrong. Somehow they pulled it off magnificently, and not only is Funland hilarious it is also convincing as a savage and, at times, erotic thriller. The cast of larger than life characters is fantastic, but perhaps the star of the series is Blackpool itself. In the best possible way this is also the most English of comedy thrillers - crumbling guesthouses, sleazy pole dancing clubs, washed-up musical artists and gay taxidermists and deluded indie musicians, civic corruption, incest and small time gangsters... this just couldn't happen anywhere else.
Gloriously dark.......2007-06-07
I received this DVD of the gloriously dark 'Funland' for xmas.
Jeremy Dyson from the League of Gentlemen and a writer for Eastenders teamed up to create a wonderfully grotesque story in the gaudy town of Blackpool. Relaying the intricate story of the series would take too long, so you need to check this out! Having been created by a league member I just knew I was in for a treat.
The story is engrossing with cliff hangers galore throughout and the acting by all concerned is superb. This is the most inventive and original comedy series I've seen in a long time. The images and characters will stay with you long after. A must see.
Funland.......2006-07-04
This is fantastic. Not a bad word to say about it. Scary, weird, complicated and funny(in places at least), this is a little gem of a show that everyone who likes bizarre drama should watch.
Funland has a wonderful cast, who were no doubt revelling in being involved with something so different and original. Sarah Smart and Kris Marshal as Dudley and Lola Sutton do a great job as a the couple who get involved in the demented politics of the seaside town of Blackpool. The poison runs deep among the resorts inhabitants and due to Dudleys naivity during a poker game, Lola is forced to work as a stripper to pay off the debt.
Sounds pretty "Indecent Proposal" doesnt it? Well things get so much worse after that. As a result of their mistake, the Suttons become linked to the powerful Woolf family, the matriarch of which is Mercy Woolf who runs the club Lola must work at. (Judy Parfitt in this role is amazing, portraying pure evil to a tee.) Her son Shirley is borderline pyschotic and has his own problems having to find some sort of balance between a demanding wife, problematic children and an overbearing mother.
Things get even more complicated with the addition of Carter, a mysterious man hell bent on finding out why his mother was killed. All he has is a key and her final words to him before being brutally murdered by too unknown assailants with chainsaws. He too becomes embroiled with the Woolf family but decides to play by his own rules in order to find out what really happened.
I wont spoil the ending. This series works best when you just try to link things up as you go. And the reward is astounding as you find out just how messed up the Woolf family are.
Im not usually a fan of saying things like "If you liked *this* then youll love *that*", but if you loved League of Gentlemen (Like me) then Funland is right up your street. If its possible Funland is even darker and more twisted than the League.
Watch it! Its brilliant!
UK DVD:
- Gia [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
- Glory Road [2006]
- Guillermo Del Toro Collection (Pan's Labyrinth, Cronos, The Devil's Backbone) [2006]
- Hill Street Blues - Series 1
- Homicide - Season 1 [1993]
- I Am Sam [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
- If These Walls Could Talk 2 [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
- Jack The Ripper [1988] (Michael Caine)
- JAG - Series 1 [1995]
- Jude [1996]
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