Flight of the Conchords - The Complete First Season |  | Actors: Jemaine Clement, Bret McKenzie
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  250 reviews
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Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 360 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.5 x 0.6
MPN: HBOD94418D
UPC: 026359441820
EAN: 0026359441820
ASIN: B000P2A6C0
Theatrical Release Date: June 17, 2007
Release Date: November 6, 2007
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Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie (a.k.a. Flight of the Conchords) may be "New Zealand's 4th Most Popular Folk Parody Duo," but in the USA, finding someone who knows their act is about as easy as finding a kiwi nest in Central Park. To rectify this oversight, Jemaine and Bret have moved to New York's East Village to conquer America, one fan (literally) at a time.
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Unlike most HBO series, Flight of the Conchords does not want to set the world on fire. It is droll and deadpan to beat the band. If you like Tenacious D, They Might Be Giants, Jonathan Richman, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, and silly Pythonian wordplay, then its off-center charms will definitely strike a resonant chord. The Conchords are comprised of funky, funny folk duo Bret McKenzie and mutton-chopped Jemaine Clement, transplanted New Zealanders trying to make it in New York. Bret, their incompetent manager, Murray (Rhys Darby) notes, has "the right attitude," while Jemaine has "what I like to call, 'the wrong attitude.'" (Murray, who works out of the New Zealand consulate, makes the clueless agent in Extras look like Ari Gold.) Stardom eludes the band. They have one fan, Mel (Kristin Schaal), whose seething husband chaperones her while she stalks them (by season's end, even she will desert them). Financially strapped, they live in squalor and are forced to film a music video with a cell-phone camera. The dense Jemaine is a damper on Bret's love life (he derisively calls Coco, Bret's new girlfriend, "Yoko"). But from their mundane lives springs their inspired music, and it is during each episode's musical numbers that Conchords really takes flight. Sample lyrics: "You're so beautiful / You could be a hostess in the '60s"; and "I'm not crying / It's just been raining / On my face." Another mad highlight is "Bowie to Bowie" in the episode in which Bret is visited by visions of Bowie in his various career incarnations (portrayed by a dead-on Jemaine). But the dialogue, too, sings with an inspired, surreal lunacy. One exchange between Bret and Murray degenerates into a chicken-egg discussion over a job vs. a gig. HBO has renewed Flight of the Conchords for a second season. Bravo! As a greeting-card executive (The Daily Show's John Hodgman), who wants to license one of their tracks, tells the duo, "I believe in potential. I can see it in you guys." --Donald Liebenson
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 So funny! October 27, 2009
Mark (Oklahoma City, OK United States)
This show is one of my favorites. I'm so glad I stumbled across it at a friend's house a couple of years ago. Bret and Jemaine are so quirky, hilarious, creative, and musically-talented! As a long time musician, I am often blown away by their capacity to mix lyrically and rhythmically complex vocals with skilled guitar playing. This talent particularly shines when you see their live performances on websites like YouTube. A highly-recommended series! I look forward to seeing their new material!
FOTC season 1 September 11, 2009
Braden Bills
Excellent TV series. Best way I can describe it is that it has a similar comedy style as the Office, but with music. The songs in this season are very clever, original and also very catchy. Just watch it already.
 One dimensional juvenile humor good for a few laughs... September 2, 2009
Michael L. Grifka (Menlo Park, CA)
One dimensional juvenile humor good for a few laughs..., but the show is admittedly redundant after watching 4 or 5 episodes. There is plenty of humor to explore in the story's basic plot of two naieve and slightly incompetent Kiwi musicians trying to make it big in NYC...but alas, the same 18 to 25 year old guy jokes and accompanying situations repeat themselves. Every episode. Every episode. The writing becomes complacent, and with it, there is little character development or drive in this show. Ultimately, the viewer ends up waiting for the odd breakout into song, which is the brilliance of Flight of the Conchords. It's hard to care about the two main characters Jemaine and Bret. I'd rather just watch their kitschy, hilarious (and memorable) 3 minute dittys on a variety of inane subjects.
The 2 disc set offers no bonus features, and so the band/show's best parts are ignored. Take FOTC for what it's worth and you won't be too disappointed. I just wonder: can these guys go back to New Zealand with their heads held high...or do they sneak back through Aukland anonymously? I can't imagine real Kiwis who are impressed with this show. Real Kiwis are so much more intelligent, aware, engaging, and truly funny beyond three or four odd guitar chords and some digital support...
Thank you for not Deleting ANY scenes August 28, 2009
a gentle sound (USA)
Man I love this show.
Unfortunately I've only seen three of them, one re-run over and over and two others that just knock me off my feet.
But that's not a problem anymore, just seeing three shows I mean, because when I get paid, if i don't get laid off of my 27 year teaching career in sunny CA, I can order.
And what I ESPECIALLY like is that everything they did was put into the show-with no deleted scenes. I hate DVD's that I have to wade through all these cut scenes wondering if I now know something that went on behind a door I wasn't supposed to sneak up to, put a glass to, and go ahead and listen in, to find out something generally icky or just too much. It usually just leads you to shake your head and know now you know too much through means sideways. If it was supposed to be there wouldn't it be there? I don't know.
Anyway this is free of all that confusion. Watch what you missed on HBO. Order today!
Now why do I love it? Fair enough. Let me count the ways.... Well firstly the characters are so off, so unlike the boring stick Happy Days unfunny predictable joke comedy of network TV with reference to the same 15 things a group of smelly/smarmy/smarty track going, cigar chomping, aggressive, dank old "listen to my ego" driven comics do in doing re-runs of the first few days of TV ...ah...I like it's "not that." Nothing like that. There is almost none of that I like. Almost none. Feel sorry for that kind of comic. Smell like my grandma's suitcases. I may be old but we moved on for a reason. That' isnt to say that they didn't do their thing well-Red Skelton I loved. Once. I like it is driven by something where it might be about how being poor is a drag, people are very quirky, you bought a 2nd cup for your broken down apartment, went over-draft and now have all the power shut off.... laughs aren't necessarily punches in our face with an 18 minute laugh track.It just has this lovely little musical thing going. These two have an excellent "folk" act that translated to this form so well. They crack on themselves, America...characters and love. It's really funny.
It's just funny.
Ok....funny...in the way of why I laugh at kids in a classroom, and passing through things in my days, like the absurdity of a bird flying in the room, kids shrieking, inspectors watching you teach "to the test" in the first two days, and a child yelling out "It's only a bird, it isn't a bat or a dinosaur, relax, if it was a pterodactyl we'd be so dead by now."
It's kinda like that. Only with a New Zealand accent, agent, songs that are always insane and a very light feel.
I want to order both seasons, man I hope it's renewed. I think the show is brilliant. I'm actually ordering to watch at work, after my class is long home sure, and I'm working late or weekends and want to watch something but do not want to forget to laugh about it all. Someone called me boring today based on some 5 minute writing, adding I was like Palin's script writer, so that's enough ....if you want the comedy done a little differently you'll be into this. But, what do I know?
Flight of the Conchords 1st Season August 19, 2009
D. Nordyke (NH)
Sent as gift. Arrived promptly in great condition.
Thanks for great service. Hysterical DVD.
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