The Office is the one of the first DVD's I rushed out to get - and one of the only things I am happy to watch time after time. Written in the style of a documentary, it's a comedy with no jokes. The Office is quite simply genius.
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1At Wernham Hogg, the Slough paper-merchants, life is stationery...David Brent (Ricky Gervais) is a petty, pompous boss who thinks he is the funniest, most popular man in the world. Pedantic jobsworth Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) agrees with him. They're both wrong.Tim (Martin Freeman) really is popular and funny, but the joke is on him as he's stuck in the middle of their little world - a world in which he hates everything except the receptionist Dawn (Lucy Davis). Will Tim escape? Will Dawn choose the right man? Will MI6 ever call on Gareth to help them out? And will David Brent ever regret letting a film crew into The Office?SERIES 2Swindon have merged with Slough. Manager David Brent has to assimilate the new intake, a group of well-trained and motivated personnel. It should be an easy job. Sadly, someone forgot to tell them they're meant to laugh at everything David says.Neil, the new guy in charge, is Brent's worst nightmare: younger, better-looking, multi-skilled - and here's the killer - more popular.Meanwhile unlucky-in-love Tim finds his fortunes changing, we discover there's more to demure Dawn than first meets the eye... and even less to Gareth.
Comedy - Director: Richard Boden, Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Rowan Atkinson
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Production Year: 2004 - Comedy - Director: John Hay - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jimi Mistry, Kate Miles, Dougray Scott
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Advantages: extra footage, deleted scenes, interviews, seeing the man who wrote most of The Office in the flesh, and having all six episodes of the first series within easy reach! Disadvantages: You might spasm too much with laughing
The Office is the one of the first DVD's I rushed out to get - and one of the only things I am happy to watch time after time. Written in the style of a documentary, it's a comedy with no jokes. The Office is quite simply genius.
Anyone who has ever worked in an office will be able to identify with the characters and situation. Set in a fictional paper merchants in Slough, the whole thing is filmed with cameras constantly present, ... ...It's just another day in the office ...
David Brent (Ricky Gervais) is the boss and a more noxious irritating smarmy man you couldn't hope to meet. Not only does he think he's a good boss, he also thinks he's the funniest, coolest, most in-touch boss there has ever been. He's actually such an appalling human being that you can find yourself watching the programme through your fingers. It makes you cringe. It's humiliating, embarrassing, ... more
The Office is the one of the first DVD's I rushed out to get - and one of the only things I am happy to watch time after time. Written in the style of a documentary, it's a comedy with no jokes. The Office is quite simply genius.
Anyone who has ever worked in an office will be able to identify with the characters and situation. Set in a fictional paper merchants in Slough, the whole thing is filmed with cameras constantly present, documentary style. The defining characteristic of The Office for me is that nothing really happens. There are no elaborate plots. It's just another day in the office ...
David Brent (Ricky Gervais) is the boss and a more noxious irritating smarmy man you couldn't hope to meet. Not only does he think he's a good boss, he also thinks he's the funniest, coolest, most in-touch boss there has ever been. He's actually such an appalling human being that you can find yourself watching the programme through your fingers. It makes you cringe. It's humiliating, embarrassing, and the frightening thing is that the character is so real, such a mixture of existing bosses you have known and hated, that he is much worse than simply a fictional character invented for a sitcom. You can truly believe this man exists.
Team Leader, Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) is a skinny, weedy guy (Mackenzie's own words) who thinks of himself as David's right hand man. He was once in the territorial army, and his knowledge of how to get out of difficult situations provides lots of surreal humour. Gareth is the sort of man who doesn't like people borrowing his stapler without permission. When given the job of finding out who it was that sent a joke email depicting the boss in a compromising situation around the office, he turns a room into an Investigation Room (complete with several door signs beginning with Interregation Room and finally settling on Gareth Keenan Investigates!) and begins to interview everyone in the Office. Although he is a jobsworth, he is very easily to wind up (putting his personal possessions in jelly always works) and actually reveals a very vulnerable side when he cries in David's office at one point during the first series. I feel sorry for him, although he's quite obviously a knob, which I think might be the point.
Tim (Martin Freeman) is the Office Everyman. He's the character you identify yourself with, as the poor relatively normal chap stuck in the middle of all this. The camera shows us his thoughts and feelings about everyone else as events unfold. He's genuinely funny and intelligent. So why is he still working for Wernham and Hogg? He needs the cash, primarily, I expect... and then there is Dawn.
Dawn is played by Lucy Davis (Jasper Carrot's daughter.) She's the lowly receptionist, treated appallingly by David Brent, and engaged to a man who isn't exactly every girl's dream. There are romantic sparks between Dawn and Tim, but as Dawn is engaged this makes the whole situation very fragile and by the end of the first series I defy you not to be desperate for them to just get together. If there is an ongoing plot that lasts for more than one single episode, this is probably it.
DVD extras:
These include deleted scenes, with a commentary from Ricky Gervais (who co-wrote the script) and Stephen Merchant (who reminds me very much of a cross between Tim and Gareth, if such a thing is possible). They talk about why they didn't use the scenes after playing them.
A 50-minute documentary about the making of the office with interview snippets with Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Mackenzie Crook, (who now signs his autographs "I could catch a monkey - Gareth") Lucy Davis and Martin Freeman. This includes footage of the pilot and pre-pilot episodes. Well worth buying on DVD just for this! If you are a fan of The Office you can't afford NOT to see this.
The DVD costs £19.99 (amazon price £14.99) Worth every penny!
My favourite surreal bit from the whole series:
Tim: (After being asked by Gareth to guess what he's thinking about) Something to do with the army? Gareth: No. I was thinking, will there ever be a boy born, that can swim faster than a shark?
The Office (Series 2) is currently shown at 10pm, Monday nights, BBC 2.
Techie Stuff:
Studio: BBC Worldwide Publishing DVD Release Date: 14 October, 2002 Run Time: 176 minutes
Edition Details: • Region 2 encoding (Europe, Middle East & Japan only) • Widescreen, PAL • Number of discs: 2 • ASIN: B000063W2U • Catalogue Number: BBCDVD1115
molelover 26.10.2002 (26.10.2002)
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Advantages: Funny, nice love story, comedy Disadvantages: None
The Office has to be one of the funniest sitcoms of recent times. Any one who has ever worked in an office environment can relate I think to the situations the actors find themselves in and probably have a similar story of their own as well. I think this is one of the reasons why it is so funny and became so successful.
The Office I think was different because it approached the sitcom genre in an interesting way by having the format of a documentary. ... ...had a camera crew in the office that basically filmed their every day lives in the office and all the drama and relationships that come with that. Like I’ve said, even though the show was made in the form of a documentary the show was fictional and scripted. It was interesting though because the camera crew often did individual interviews with the staff members also and asked them about things that were happening in the office. I found the comedy ...
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This review is on the first series of The Office, by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchaant. Or rather, a realistic look at what is currently going on in all office-based companies throughout the country. Cleverly written, it is in fact a comedy based as a documentary that is set in an office. In other words it is not a real life documentary, but rather it is a series that has been based on what potentially could happen in real life. And having worked ... ...I think is one of the main aims of the series. The series is based on a fictional company based in Slough, known as Wernham Hogg. This is a paper manufacturing industry, and although the majority of it is in fact based within the office department/s of the organisation there are in fact a number of pieces that are based within the warehouse department. There are in fact four main characters within the series, who are as follows: David Brent (Ricky ...
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Advantages: funny, different, great performances from cast Disadvantages: an acquired taste
...character when he was on the show, but my overall impression was "fat, racist git". I didn't find him particularly hilarious. When I heard about "The Office", the comedy set in the office of a Slough-based paper merchants, I wasn't particularly interested in ever watching it. Co-written by Gervais and Stephen Marchant, and co-starring Gervais, I just didn't expect much from it.
Then, one night, there was nothing else on tv apart from an episode ... ...that it is one of the funniest comedies to emerge in recent years. And most of its humour lies in the fact it is so damn TRUE, as anyone who has ever worked in an office can testify. Why do I think its so true to life? Well, I can take the various elements of "The Office" and apply them to my own experience . . .
~ REAL LIFE ELEMENT # 1 - THE BOSS WHO THINKS HE'S GREAT (BUT REALLY ISN'T)
David Brent (Gervais) thinks he is the bees knees. He does ...
Pmshack99 14.07.2005
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Advantages: Very original script with good humour Disadvantages: Not many special features on the DVD
The Office is a situation comedy set mainly in the fictional Wernham Hogg Paper Merchant's Office of Slough. Although the program may look like a typical day in a typical office, the sort of things that happen there could not be more surreal or unusual!
The series is done in an unusual style: a fictional documentary crew are filming the so-called typical day-to-day workings of the office to give the inside story of the Paper Merchant trade, and ... ...Brent (Ricky Gervais)- Brent is the manager of the Wernham Hogg Paper Merchant's in Slough. He attempts to be a good manager by cracking bad jokes and generally trying to be funny around the workplace, whilst motivating the staff as best as he can. It never works properly, as he is mainly putting on a show for the documentary crew!
Gareth (Mackenzie Crook)- Gareth is an ex-Territorial Army member and he fully respects Brent's authority and believes ...
Davius 06.03.2003
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Following hot on the heels of the repeat series on BBC2 comes this fantastic 2 DVD set. If you have not sampled the genius that is David Brent, or are part of the ever dwindling group of people who have only seen one episode, where have you been?
David Brent is the utterly hapless branch manager of a paper merchants in Slough. He attempts to laugh his way through the day, but his humour invariably falls upon deaf ears - watching him try to be 'one ... ...first DVD takes us through the first series, as the title suggests, with only a couple of add ons, which I'll come back to later. Episode 1 introduces us all to the unhappy paper workers, most notably David Brent, his assistant Gareth - who is obsessed with his territorial army training, and a couple of other characters who, at this stage, appear to be only 'bit parts'. It quickly becomes apparent that all is not well at The Office and David is fighting ...
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A documentary film crew follows David Brent, regional manager of the Slough branch of Paper Merchants, Wernham Hogg as he and his 'team' go about their business. As David works he manages to alienate, belittle, embarrass and offend just about everyone who works with him... Features the episodes 'Downsize', Work Experience', 'The Quiz', 'Training' 'New Girl' and 'Judgement'.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO; SONY DADC
Release date
14/10/2002
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
BBCDVD 1115
Barcode
5014503111526
Languages
Main Language
English
Subtitle Language
English
Hearing Impaired Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Exclusive Documentary, Deleted Scenes
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital Stereo
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital Stereo English
Award information
BAFTA
Best Comedy Performance 2001 (Ricky Gervais)
DVD Description
The entire first series of the award-winning spoof fly-on-the-wall docu-comedy set in the offices of Wernham Hogg, a Slough paper merchants. Ricky Gervais' excruciatingly funny portrayal of the tragically inept manager David Brent drew favourable comparisons with John Cleese's role in Fawlty Towers, and THE OFFICE is assured a similar place in the hall of fame of UK comedy. Whether dealing with his overly officious sidekick Gareth, the engaged yet lovelorn receptionist Dawn or Tim the disillusioned sales rep, handling the opposite sex, the potential redundancies as the imminent merging of two branches looms or the ultimate office cliche--the training day--Brent never fails to demonstrate his desperate inadequacies. All six fantastic episodes: 1. Downsize - David Brent learns that his staff are threatened with redundancy but he's been promoted. 2. Work Experience - Donna arrives at Wernham Hogg for work experience. 3. The Quiz - It's the Annual Quiz night but it's also Tim's birthday too. Will the young Tim and Gareth beat Brent and Finchy
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