The modern approach to making TV series and movies is very much in evidence here: hit them with all you've got and hope that it sticks. For "Little Britain" that means outrageous characters like the wheelchair-bound guy who really isn't, the adult guy who still loves being breast-fed by his mother or any female relative, the gay guy who prefers to think he's the only one in his village, cross-dressing men and frontal nudity galore. Running gags are repeated to the point of nausea (literally so in the case of the vomiting "lady"). The low-brow humour is only partially appealing. Hearing an old man talk about his experiences in mutual masturbation as a youth solicits laughter not because it's funny to hear, but because it's just plain outrageous. A complete lack of subtlety brings everything down.
The Monty Pythons had a policeman chasing them away when the sketch got too silly or the studio audience storm the stage when the gags got too tasteless - something that I sorely missed here. Not surprisingly, "Little Britain" has only about half the number of episodes that the Monty Python series had.
6 out of 10 for sheer recklessness - and not much else.
The Monty Pythons had a policeman chasing them away when the sketch got too silly or the studio audience storm the stage when the gags got too tasteless - something that I sorely missed here. Not surprisingly, "Little Britain" has only about half the number of episodes that the Monty Python series had.
6 out of 10 for sheer recklessness - and not much else.