Artivels Undescribable Perfection

VividSimon Simply Perfect

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

uknortherner2000 2DTV. This, and the Champions League were probably the only reasons why I wasted any time watching ITV.Funny dialogue, a warped sense of humour and the ability of the 2DTV team to knock these episodes out the same day as major events unfolded is the reason why I made the effort to watch it.Nothing, it seemed was out of bounds: The US, Iraq War, the British Government, the royal family, The Osbournes, Harry Potter, football, soaps, reality TV, celebrities, Al Qaeda, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict... Basically anything that hit the headlines, made it into the show and to hilarious effect.Although the episodes tended to be only 15 minutes long (and as such, could be easily lost amongst the dreary reality shows ITV usually churned out at 10pm), there was usually never a moment when the show lost it's pace.The animation was more functional rather than polished, and some of the voices were sometimes off the mark, but neither of these things really detracted from the script itself. The political bias may put some people off, but it's worth persevering even if it's only to see the celebrity gags.Certainly one to rent/buy on DVD.

TheNorthernMonkee SPOILERS In 2001, with a plan to fill the neesh left by the cancellation of "Spitting Image" in 1996, ITV began showing a cartoon series called "2DTV". Originally hilarious, the series continued to evolve. Sadly though that evolution has not always been for the best with bad choices being made in terms of the celebrities being covered. "2DTV" has changed from being a fresh original take on life into an excessively celebrity based inferior to alternative television shows.When "2DTV" first started, jokes tended to be directed at celebrities like the Beckhams (Jon Culshaw and Jan Ravens), Blair and Bush (both Culshaw) and the monarchy. This trend has subsided in recent times however as the series has began to change it's focus to keep with public opinion. The last series shown on television still maintained Blair and Bush, but it introduced jokes about Wayne Rooney and his fiancée, and the breast groping controversy over Arnold Schwarzenegger. Beginning to repeat the same jokes over and over again, the series gradually lost it's freshness and has eventually lost any of the wit and humour that it originally had.Part of the decline in "2DTV" has been as a result of the thriving "Dead Ringers" on the BBC. With vocal artists Culshaw and Ravens leaving for the BBC production, the standards and humour have plummeted. As "2DTV" has lowered it's tone and lost it's style, "Dead Ringers" has thrived and evolved into something rather wonderful.On the animation, even the old favourite of George Bush has lost his strength. Originally based around the concept that he is an idiot, the series would insult him in ways so extreme, that one advert for the show was even banned from television. In later series though, this style has gone off the boil as the world has accepted the view of Bush as an idiot and are more concerned about him blowing up the world than being thick."2DTV" was genius when it first started. Funny and witty, it provided decent entertainment when you were lucky enough to catch it (ITV never really giving it a proper screening time until too late), and never failed to make you laugh. In recent times though, this animation has self destructed. With main vocal artists leaving and the scripts getting progressively worse, the show has lost all of it's dignity and should have stopped a few years ago. Yet another example of a television programme going on for too long.

mellomeh I believe I was once a fan of this.The newest series has been the worst thing I have ever seen. The jokes are extremely poor, they've got rid of the Dead Ringers team and that music played in the background to each animation is embarrassing. Somebody in the production team obviously thought that a low trombone note would increase the hilarity of each animation's 'punchline' no end. They were wrong, very wrong.The animation is extremely poor, considering the gaps in between the series you would expect some new animating techniques but no, it's the same old animation, same old art.If you want animated satire then just look at what the BBC has to offer. The excitingly diverse Monkey Dust is being aired on BBC2 on Mondays at 10pm. If Monkey Dust is the Bremner Bird and Fortune of animation, then 2DTV is the Alistair McGowan.

bob the moo Tony Blair has his hands full with a cabinet of backstabbers and halfwits. Meanwhile his global action against terrorism and hopes for a new world order are stuttering thanks to the less than helpful help of George W and his new best friend, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.I managed to miss the entire first series of this show simply because it's Sunday night screening time more often than not clashed with a film I would want to see. However the second series was repeated later in the week and allowed me to see it. At first I thought that the very colourful cartoon-like animation would mean that the gags would be very childish and silly and, in a way, I was sort of right.The material is not as cerebral as, say, Rory Bremner, but it is actually more funny for it. Around about a third of the time the gags are quite topical and are reasonably sharp swipes at the week's happenings in the news. However for the majority of the time the comedy is quite broad swipes at basic happenings and basic characters. For example the football Wayne Rooney gets attacked for being a rough Scouse, Bush for being dumb, Arnie for being, well, Arnie. Some of it is clever but most of it is designed to be funny even if you hadn't watched the news for 2 months and only knew about current affairs from reading a tabloid. That's not to say it isn't funny - for it is, but it is not quite what I'd call satire simply because it doesn't make me think - only laugh.The voice work is very good, although some characters are better than others - Bush is my favourite by far. The series has lost out by ITV giving John Culshaw his own show and thus allowing him to leave 2DTV. However the remainder still do a good job.Overall this is an enjoyable series but I would prefer if it trusted me enough to make me think or to assume that I'll be aware of what is going on in the world. This is funny but it's like satire for those who don't know a great deal about politics.