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List Price: $59.95 | | Label: A&E Home Video
Salesrank: 1883
Released: May 26, 2009 |
| Our Price: $29.45 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 05/26/2009
Description of Jeeves & Wooster: The Complete Series:
Fans of Hugh Laurie's prickly, sardonic House character may not realize that Laurie started as a slapstick comedian of the most British type: Veddy, veddy silly. And nowhere has Laurie been sillier, or more divine, than as Bertie Wooster in Jeeves & Wooster, the British TV series based on the famed P.G. Wodehouse characters. Playing off Laurie is the equally splendid Stephen Fry (a longtime Laurie pal and co-star) as the arch and supremely competent valet Jeeves. The two create a winning, hilarious pair of tour guides into the rarified world of early-20th-century upper-crust England. Bertie is kind-hearted and a soft touch, and, well, not exactly street smart. When Bertie's Aunt Agatha ("the nephew-crusher") decides he must be groomed to be a proper prospective husband for a proper well-off young lady, Bertie snaps, "I don't want to be molded, I'm not a jelly!" Auntie: "That's a matter of opinion. Dear." Happily, Jeeves is there to anticipate the worst of Bertie's mishaps (usually involving alcohol) and to find creative ways to bail him out. Fry is deadpan and delightful playing Jeeves, and Laurie is a revelation to any comedy fan who's only experienced him as House. The Wodehouse dialogue is preserved in all its exquisite tossed-away glory. Bertie's short chat with a barkeep doing renovations contains this small gem, from the musing pubman: "Well, they can't abide mooses, the committee can't." It's all about softening that stiff upper lip--and in this, Jeeves & Wooster succeeds brilliantly.--A.T. Hurley
Jeeves & Wooster: The Complete Series Reviews:
Jeeves and Wooster, The Complete Series 
2009-12-21 - This is great fun. It is an opportunity to see Hugh Laurie (House) as the completely different character of Wooster, the hilarious stereotypical spoiled rich British stumble bumble upperclass man of the 1920s. Steven Fry as Wooster's valet and problem solver is awesome. One of the remarkable features of the series is the 1920's settings. Every detail is covered from cars to table settings, hotels to New York streets, music to clothes. It is wonderful, classy British humor at its best. My son and I had a wonderful time viewing it together.
Nursimg Home 
2009-12-21 - This was purchsed for a bed ridden elderly person in a nursing home. It was a delight to hear him laugh and enjoy the nuances of this series. He has always been a fan of British comedy and seeing H. Laurie in a comedic role was a hoot.
Still no closed-captioning!
2009-12-16 - This release deserves 5 stars, but I am so disappointed that A&E still has not provided captioning or subtitles for these programs. My children and I are all hard-of-hearing and would love to own this set but will wait with fingers crossed.
Great fun
2009-12-04 - I love this set, and I recommend it to any fan of P. G. Wodehouse. Purists should know that these episodes do not adhere strictly to Wodehouse's plots. The producers have taken some liberties with the story-lines, for the sake of T.V. time constraints. All the same, these productions satisfy completely. I wish Hugh Laurie would learn to stop slurping when he talks; but, otherwise, he delivers a perfect Bertie Wooster. (Maybe Bertie slurped when he talked, too?) Of course, Stephen Fry was born to play Jeeves, and few living actors could have done so better. All of the episodes in this set appear to take place in the 1920s, and it astonishes me how the producers re-created that time period on film. They even dug up some old footage of Times Square in New York for those episodes set on this side of the pond. (I noticed that some of the stories that Wodehouse set in England got transferred over here, but they still work fine.) Buy this set if you love silliness.
Rip-off 
2009-12-02 - This review is about Amazon's pricing of Jeeves. I Put this DVD set in my cart over the weekend, priced at $28.99
This morning I came on to pick out a few more items before completing the order, only to be met with the message that the price for the DVD set was now $49.99! I would LOVE to know how Amazon justifies a 72% price increase - especially when other retailers through amazon are still charging less than $30.
Price-gouging: nothing like stiffing the public in time for Christmas...
