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The Mighty Boosh : Complete BBC Series 3 [2007] | ![The Mighty Boosh : Complete BBC Series 3 [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512bE2b%2BfKL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Paul King
Actors: Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding, Rich Fulcher, Michael Fielding, Dave Brown
Studio: 2 Entertain Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  93 reviews
Sales Rank: 116
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 165 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014503259426
ASIN: B000YZ8594
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: February 11, 2008
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Is there anything on television quite like The Mighty Boosh? Bluntly, who cares, for the ongoing adventures and antics of Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt remain a comedic treat, even if season three does have its up and down moments. Let's temper that, quickly: The Mighty Boosh on one of its lesser days can still generate more laughs than 90% of other modern-day comedy series, and that's certainly the case with the six episodes here. Lead characters Howard and Vince are found working in the Nabootique this time, and it's not long before they're joined by some old favourites. Cue Bob Fossil, the sublime Shamen, and the Moon, among others. If there's one downside to The Mighty Boosh's third season, it is perhaps a little too much self-indulgence, which occasionally tempers things. But then that's set against some brilliantly ambitious episodes, some of the finest surrealist humour on the telly, and the terrific Crack Fox. There's little denying that as a show, The Mighty Boosh can easily be classed as bizarre, bonkers, and straight-out odd. But here, that's turned into the show's strength. And given the side-splitting laughs it continues to generate, we wouldn't have it any other way. --Jon Foster
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 Not as Good as... but Better than... September 30, 2008
D. M. Deeks (West London)
Series 3 is sort of uneven - three standout episodes that are strong enough to overwhelm the lazy, self indulgent strand running through all six. The main problem for me was that they brought to the fore those wonderful details that added unique texture in series 1 & 2. For example, crimping. Before crimping had a name, it was something that cropped up every now and then in a natural, brilliant sort of way. In series three there's an entire episode dedicated to crimping. Knowing it's something that can be taught, can be practiced and even copied just sorta cheapened it. The same goes for the Council of Shamen, and particularly Tony Harrison who's been transformed into a hard living drug fiend.
The other big problem is that the Boosh now inhabit the same space as a lot of the real world, and it's not a particularly great one - it's full of Camden posers. In Party, they're even told by Vince that they're the chosen people. They're arrogant, shallow body fascists. That was charming when Vince was the only one and it was taken to a surrealist extreme, but now it's just irritating. That's one of the bigger problems - Vince has stopped being lovable and the friendship between him and Howard descends into point-scoring and spite.
The standouts are Eels (the Hitcher remains reliably nasty), Journey to the Centre of Punk and especially the Crack Fox (definitely Julian Barrett's best turn and an effective comedy/horror mix). Even those have moments you'd rather weren't there, just as the weaker episodes have moments you want to savour.
Mighty Boosh 3 is not as good as their previous work but it's still better than any other comedy on British TV. I reckon series 4 will be a vast improvement and in the meantime, it's still not that bad. They just set the bar so high before that it was hard to top it the third time out.
 Bouncy Bouncy, oh such a good time! September 16, 2008
Jackie Daniels
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well, after reading the critical comments of previous posters I felt it my duty to add a more positive one! I do love how people are quite happy to sit in their armchairs with their Horlicks and pick apart someone's hard work(!)
True, Noel and Julian are more famous now due mainstream TV coverage and Noel seems to be in the right circles with all the coolest bands etc but I don't see how this is reflected in the material in Series 3!!!
They do use the same characters in this series as 2 but so what!?! It works!!!
They are some CLASSIC moments in it, the Journey to the Centre of Punk is totally off the wall seeing Vince dressing up as a range of weird and wonderful versions of himself! :)
I don't know why people begin to despise things when they become popular, that's the ultimate triumph for bands/artists/comedians etc - to become popular and all people can say is 'they've sold out' just because they are living it up!!! Selling out (in my opinion) is when you become something you're not due to pressures of the mainstream in whatever area you're in - they, as you have all kept repeating have stayed the same!
Whatever anyway - I love it and think they have created something new and exciting with ALL 3 SERIES and that is hard in this day and age as everyone seems to be copying old stuff albeit some in a strange paradox!
 Series three September 14, 2008
Ms. S. L. Lamb (England)
We definately go on a journey through time and space with The Mighty Boosh in series three. In episode one we see the frightening cockney slasher "The Hitcher" make a re-appearance, in episode two we take a journey into Vince's body to find and destroy a rogue jazz cell, The Flighty Zeus take on the Boosh in episode three, the Crack Fox acquires some powerful Shaman juice in the fourth episode, there's some weird and wonderful goings on at a party in the fifth, including THAT kiss, and in the sixth episode we see Howard overcoming the chokes in order to be noticed by avant garde film maker Jurgen Haabermaster.
As always the Boosh can't easily be summed up or indeed described, but Fielding and Barratt are still on top form with this latest series of cult viewing The Mighty Boosh.
The Boosh is the BEST September 14, 2008
Leanne F. Blanche (Stanwell Park, NSW AUSTRALIA)
Series 3 is remarkable and hillarious. All the people who claim to be 'loyal fans' who DON'T like the series, how can you be at all loyal if you don't appreciate the wonderful work of the Boosh? Imagine how hard it would be to write 3 whole series' of the boosh the have people say they don't like your work? If you were in their position you would feel awful and extremely betrayed.
Series 3 is wonderful and does not dissapoint fans who love the boosh.
The boosh is the most wonderful thing ever and it makes me upset to see people who don't appreciate it becuase me and all the other fans, LOVE it to pieces.
The boosh will not disapoint and I would highly reccomend it.
To Define is to Destroy September 12, 2008
Kevin Wilson
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Would have been 2 and a half, but Amazon wont support that. Lets be honest, the first TV series of the Boosh was probably, the funniest, most intelligent, most stylish, most creative, most 'out there' new comedy... 'phenomena' for a generation. They bypassed the ghastly evolutionary dead end of Mr Elton's alternative to comedy, very loosely following a lineage whose forebears include Vic & Bob and the sainted Pythons themselves. These guys roared in out of left field, almost from another dimension, but as they emerged into our reality, everthing was just so right, so perfectly balanced. It was time and space, but not as we know it. The thinking nation divided between those (of us) who identified more closely with the dour northern miserablism of Mr Moon, and those innocent, happy, boiffanted souls who looked to Mr Noir for leadership and inspiration. Their coterie of gifted supporting players, notably Matt Berry/Dixon Bainbridge filled their corner of the alternate universe with brilliant energy. They even had their own George & Ringo in Naboo and Rich Fulcher. It looked like genius, and perhaps it was, but genius, so they say, is 99% perspiration, 1% inspiration. The material had evolved through years of stage work, and was given a final polish in a brillant radio series.
You'd have thought their subsequent work would have benefitted from the freshness, momentum and sheer genius of Series 1, but it doesnt appear to have been the case. Series 2 & 3 seem to be a body of work almost distinct from what went before. Instead of benefitting from the initial momentum, if anything, their extra mass has just added inertia. This wasnt immediately apparent, although series two was different. It had a glossier feel, and had become worryingly self referential. It wasnt quite a parody of its former self in the way that series two of the Young Ones was, all those years ago. There were brilliant flashes of genius amid the boiling gas and dust; new stars were forming, but it was clear that this new universe was cooling. Series three seems to be a slow continuation of the process. By any other standard there is still great stuff here. The Crack Fox and the strange tale of Sammy the Crab were Gamma ray bursts of comedic energy. Maybe the difference is that this activity seems to be taking place in a contracting, rather than an expanding universe. There is still real genius at work here, but they are fighting the inertia of the Boosh's own dark matter; the self referential, Camden punk, NME in-crowd stuff. Montgomery Flange and his ilk may yet represent the phoenix rising from the ashes.
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