.......that hasn't seen the A-team. Where have you been? Under a rock somewhere?
Anyways - the A-team, easy to sum up - pure class.
BA Baracus, Hannibal Smith, Murdock & Face all come together to provide us with quality saturday/sunday morning entertainmet.
For those of you unaware as to who the A-team are, let me explain......
....."In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team."
This was the opening line/narration to the programme and pretty much sums the whole show up. The A-team are a group of renegade guns for hire, hiding from it's own goverment, contesting it's innocence (against the accusations of crime) and still finding time to saving the meek, poor and humble in the process.
Guns, car chases, kidnapping, espionage, politics, expolosions and making tanks out of a practically anything (like a lawn-mower, some tin-foil and a can of baked beans! lol!) - this show had everything to keep the kids amused - but without the blood and gore. Some have described it as a "live action cartoon" which I guess kinda sums it up. Mildly sexist and a tad chauvanistic, this program is showing signs of being dated, but as a TV show "for the family" this does have quite a cult following from people who watched in in the 80's & 90's. Lengendary though- even if it may look severely dated now when compared to many shows - but like many other iconic hits of it's day (Knight-rider, Airwolf etc), this show is still loved by many today.
If you've never seen the show - I'd recommend starting with the first series as this has the pilot episode that intoduces the team. However if you're already well-versed in the A-team, series 3 really does have some corkers in terms of "cheesey" episodes and slightly weaker scripts (which I think made it so great!). I'm not going to describe them in detail though as its easier to describe them all - beings as they are so similar! Don't go expecting any Oscar winning performances, effects or dialogue, just the usual helping of the A-Team helping those in need - getting themselves in trouble in the process, then building something amazing from an oven, a prosthetic leg and last nights left over raviolli in order to foil the plans of the truely stereotypical bad guys and their stupid henchman who can't aim a gun to save their own life (quite literally!! lol!)! And of course, no episode would be complete without an "I love it when a plan comes together......" from Hannibal.
Mr T is by far the best character and was somewhat of a childhood hero for many young boys! And watch out from the particularly cheesey perfomances from Dirk "I can't help smiling" Benedict as "Face" and some incredibly bad disguises for Hannibal!
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Production Year: 1977 - Action/Adventure - Director: Clint Eastwood - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
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Soho_Black 15.02.2007 12:23
I see you've posted this as a DVD review, but you've not mentioned the DVD. Are there any extras? If so, what are they and are they any good? If you add to this, or if you change it to be posted as a "Film Only" review, which can be done by accessing "edit review" above the review and changing the drop down menu under the "Which format are you reviewing?" question at the bottom, please let me know and I'll re-rate.
Ailran 15.02.2007 00:28
I think that RichPrice has said pretty much what i was going to say :o)
Feb 14th, 2007
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