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Dom Robinson reviews

Dangermouse:
Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind

Distributed by
PT Video

Cert:
Cat.no: PTDVD 8097
Running time: 132 minutes
Year: 1980
Pressing: 2001
Region(s): 0, PAL
Chapters: 6 plus extras
Sound: Mono
Languages: English
Subtitles: None
Fullscreen: 4:3
16:9-Enhanced: No
Macrovision: Yes
Disc Format: DVD 9
Price: £9.99
Extras: Cast Biographies, Animated Menus, First Ever Count Duckula Episode

Director:

Brian Cosgrove

Producer:

Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall

Screenplay:

Brian Trueman

Music:

Mike Harding

Voices:

David Jason, Terry Scott, Edward Kelsey and Brian Trueman

He's the greatest. He's fantastic. He's Dangermouse!

The cult of kids TV arriving on DVD continues with a series I regularly watched and enjoyed before I hit double figures and which, on a recent I Love the 80s, was admitted it was easy on the animators because many of the scenes that featured in every episode, such as DM driving from his secret hideout, were copied across each time.

Six episodes are included here. For a mo I thought this would amount to around 30 minutes screen time, but then I remembered that each one was aired in four parts (oh, how the continuing storyline would get me through yet another unbelievably shitty week at school from Monday to Thursday; and who cared about Friday afternoons because the weekend was here!) and so lasts around 20 minutes apiece.

Back to the plot and the six episodes are: Custard, The Duel, The Day of the Suds, The Bad Luck Eye of the Little Yellow God, The Four Tasks of Dangermouse and the 'title track', Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind in which Dangermouse (voiced by new first-time father David Jason) has to stop Baron Silas Greenback who is threatening to steal the Big Ear Tracking Station and Penfold (voiced by the late, great Terry Scott) has gone missing, but will DM find him before it's too late? Daft question :)

It's in 4:3 fullscreen and the print has many a scratch on it but nothing you don't expect and it certainly doesn't put you off for those who were big fans and at least it makes a damn sight more bloody sense than Pokemon !

The sound is in mono which comes across clearly enough.

cover pic

Wherever there is danger he'll be there!

In the extras dept. there's Cast Biographies for the cartoon characters and not the voices behind them, the First Ever Count Duckula Episode, "No Sax Please, We're Egyptian", although he never quite did it for me, plus a brief sequence of DM being very unlucky with the birds.

The disc has no subtitles but a neat animated menu with the classic theme tune. If I had one complaint with the DVD it's that there's generally just one chapter per episode rather than breaking them down into individual parts. I say generally because the first episode has a chapter break randomly stuck in the middle, not between two of its parts but just somewhere where it doesn't belong.

Don't worry about the overall score. With a disc like this, the price and content score are all you should concern yourself with. As for how it looks, well you didn't really expect Vittorio Storaro to be taking time out from Apocalypse Now to lend a hand did you?

FILM CONTENT PICTURE QUALITY SOUND QUALITY EXTRAS
OVERALL

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2001.

The following is a list of all the PT Video, Freemantle Home Entertainment and Telstar Video Children's DVDs reviewed online to date :

Button Moon Vol.1
Chorlton and the Wheelies: Series 1
Chorlton and the Wheelies: Series 2
Chorlton and the Wheelies: Series 3
Cult Kids Classics Vol.1
Cult Kids Classics Vol.2
Dangermouse: Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind
Dangermouse Saves the World...Again!
Dangermouse: The Great Bone Idol
Hello Kitty's Paradise
Jamie And The Magic Torch: Series 1
Most Wanted Classic Kids TV
Rainbow: Zippy Sets Them Up!
Stories from Camberwick Green
Stories from Chigley
Stories from Trumpton
Sweep Superdog

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