The End

DAVE LISTER - THE LAST HUMAN
Red Dwarf is a classic BBC Sci-Fi series with a cult following all over the world. Originally produced an a miniscule budget and a fairly unknown cast, it grew to become one of the BBC's most popular shows and now was a movie in pre-production for a 2004 release.

The DVD contains 2 disks with the following episodes from the first series:

"The End". We are introduced to David Lister and his superior Arnold Rimmer, two junior technicians on the mining space ship "Red Dwarf". They work together, the live in a cabin together... and they HATE each other. After visiting Titan, Lister smuggles a cat onboard but is caught and sentenced by Captain Holister to spend the rest of the tour in a stasis pod. When Lister emerges he discovers to his horror that 3 million years have passed. While in stasis, a drive plate ruptured and the radiation leak killed the entire crew. Holly, the ship's computer, piloted the ship into deep space and didn't release Lister until the...

Seinfeld In Space
Don't listen to that detractor John Tilelli- He's just a pediatric cardiologist from Bumblehump Florida. I checked out his reviews. His idea of good Sci-fi is aparrantly limited to Men In Black II. I'm not surprised this was a little over his head. It's true that the classic RD foursome (Rimmer,Lister, Cat, Kryton) wouldn't coagulate until after this season, however, these episodes are hilarious and the actors are playing around- experimenting with the new format of television sci-fi comedy. Like all great English episodics, this series didn't need to rely on special effects, or stars, or gratuitous sex and violence. Not that I mind those things, but the English have had a television focus on story and characterization- and those two elements are very present in Red Dwarf. If I could get an uptown Bergdorf's fashion maven into this show almost as much as she liked Absolutely Fabulous, you and your friends will get hours of fun out of this set. Crack open a couple of cold ones, break...

Doesn't Time Fly When you're Trapped in Deep Space, Three Million years into the Future?
Alright; maybe series 1 and 2 of Red Dwarf weren't the peak of the show, as far as writing,and all-around polish, but I still find it hard to believe that a previous reviewer found NOTHING funny about this. Not Norman Lovett's deadpan delivery as Holly, not the petty behavior of Rimmmer? Not the carefree, slob, but good-hearted man that is Lister? Not even the Cat????? I can't believe that the "Everybody's dead Dave" scene, or the Cat's shiny thing (actually a yo-yo he apparently found, and uses like a cat toy) didn't force so much as a chuckle from this reviewer. Some people obviously lack taste, and class when it comes to humor. Poor, laugh-deprived human beings; oh, well...
As for my own opinion, I think it's smeggin' hilarious! The writing is great, the actors are wonderful (so much character in the Cat, and Holly), and things are always fresh. Even the sets, and props (admittedly low-budget) have a certain appeal to them. Just great jokes, highly original and well-matched...

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