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Mighty Boosh : Complete BBC Series 2 [DVD] starring: Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding

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Rating: - Much more interesting than series 1

I first a couple of episodes of the Mighty Boosh series one on BBC 2 and to be honest it didn't really catch my attention that much. It seemed a bit run of the mill average 'new trendy comedy' although it did have its moments, and the Vince/Howard relationship worked really well. Time has passed... and I happen to catch series 2 one late night on BBC 2. Its the episode The Nightmare Of Milky Joe and i'm immediately hooked. That episode is when Vince and Howard get stranded on a desert island and invent a mini society of coconut people to talk to.
And it just gets weirder from there really. I think the best parts of series one are when Vince and Howard leave the Zoo, and series two takes this idea further where they actually spend the whole episode on an crazy surreal adventure. Its like when the Starbug was invented for Red Dwarf, it makes the show so much more interesting and provides a lot more scope for surreal comedy. Don't get me wrong I love the Vince/Howard relationship and it's still a strong factor in series two. It's made even stronger by the addition of two more characters to the group- Naboo the Shaman is so much better in series 2 he's a lot more fuller character wise and thank God Bob Fossil is gone. I think the writing is a lot more cynical in series two, and it's better for it. Vince seems to have a lot more of a dig at Howard for example, as do the rest of the characters, in fact Howard basically becomes the butt of a lot of jokes. My favourite episode is The Priest And The Beast in which the band have to find a new musical direction and encounter the Betamax Bandit intent in reeling in all men and killing them for some reason. If I had to compare it to another comedy I would say its like the Lister/Rimmer relationship in Red Dwarf (but a lot cooler/vainer Lister with a dress sense) with a lot of the Young Ones (in the sense that its a kinda gang thing) and the surrealism of Spaced. I also love the music references dropped here and there (Roger Daltrey appears as a cleaner!!) which I got a lot of, it's a bit like how Spaced always dropped film refernces which I never got. Overall a vast improvement on series 1 in my opinion, hopefully more of the same to come!!

Rating: - A brilliant comedy show

The 1st series of the mighty boosh was extremely original and funny, and meant that the 2nd had a lot to live up to.

I disagree that the 2nd series is "too zany" or "too surreal" because I think this adds a lot to the show, and even though the first series is amazing, It needed a change to keep it fresh, and I think the 2nd series has got this just right.

I highly reccommend it to anyone with a sense of humour!

Rating: - "Crunch Time!"

Some people seem disappointed with the second series of The Mighty Boosh. Personally I think it's even better than the first. The first series doesn't exactly lack in imagination, but this second batch takes bizzare comedy to even greater levels. Freed from the restrictions of the Zooniverse, Howard and Vince now live in Naboo's flat and are trying to start a music career. This isn't really referred to much, though, and is pushed into the background as even weirder adventures unfold.
There isn't a bad episode, but two in particular are pretty much up there with any classic comedy. One is 'Nanageddon', in which Howard and Vince inadvertently bring about an invasion of demon old women; one character in particular, the travel-sick head-with-tentacles Tony Harrison is one of the funniest things they've ever done.
The other one is 'The Priest and The Beast' which is just extraordinarily inventive and dreamlike - I can't think of much else like it. It starts out as a story told by Naboo and just escalates into one of the strangest things I've ever seen in television comedy. If Spike Milligan had written narratives for Q, and left out the racism and sexism, it might have been a bit like this.
Both Julian Barrett and Noel Fielding are brilliant as their main characters, but Fielding in particular plays some excellent extra characters, especially The Moon, who delivers a couple of short, strange monologues in every episode. And, to even things up, Barratt has made some excellent music for the series, in particular in the 'Old Gregg' episode.
So, yes, it IS different to the first series... but surely if I want to see the Zooniverse, Bob Fossil and (especially) Dixon Bainbridge I can just watch series one again?
If they do a third series, I hope it's just as different again.

Rating: - Goodbye Zooniverse... you'll be sadly missed

With the exception of Spaced and probably Peep Show, I don't think I have ever waited for a follow-up series with such eager anticipation. Mighty Boosh Series 2, however, was a bit dissapointing.

I really wanted to love it as much as its predecessor but in abandoning the Zooniverse in favour of Naboo's bedsit, Howard and Vince's existence lost the charm which it gained from such an unusual and original concept.

With the new setting the storylines have become overly far-fetched. This is probably an attempt to satisfy those cringeworthy media critics who dubbed the Boosh 'zany' and 'surreal' - which to an extent is true but not in the "I'm well mad I am!!!" sense...

Howard has lost some of his trademark whinging and universal contemplation while Vince’s chic androgyny and mod stylings from the first series have turned into full-blown dressing in girls clothes.

The saddest fact of leaving the Zooniverse behind is the loss of the Zoo Manager Bob Fossil. The actor who plays Fossil, Rich Fulcher, appears in Series 2 as various other minor characters but all are a mere sliver of the genius which made the idiotic manager an integral part of the Zooniverse.

I am the first to appreciate the need for comedy to evolve, particularly in this country where really good shows are few and far between, but sometimes change isn’t always for the better.

Rating: - Good, but not a patch on series one

It was by chance that I saw an episode of Mighty Boosh (series 2, Hunt for the Yeti). It was funny and made me laugh and so I decided to get the series one DVD. Series One is by far funnier and contains more episodes that I will watch again and again (Jungle, Bollo, Hitcher and Tundra being the stand out ones).
Series 2 is okay but I find its plunged into the too wierd zone. Nanageddon is a cracking episode, so too is Fountain of Youth and Old Gregg. Milky Joe, the final episode, is really quite poor and I could not finish it.
Features wise we have a commentary on each episode with the main trio (Rich and the other two whose names escape me at the mo) which are always good fun and interesting, if a little rambling.

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