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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
EAN: 9780790793214
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790793210
Label: BBC Video
Manufacturer: BBC Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 20, 2004
Running Time: 180 minutes
Sales Rank: 10511
Studio: BBC Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 23, 2003
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/22/2005 Run time: 180 minutes
Amazon.com:
The second series of the award-winning BBC mockudrama The Office exceeded even the sky-high standards of the first. Indeed, it ventured beyond caricature and satire, touching on the very edge of darkness. Ricky Gervais was once again excruciatingly superb as David Brent, a subtly shaded modern English comic grotesque in the desperate and self-deluding tradition of Alan Partridge and Basil Fawlty. In this series, however, Brent's to-the-camera assertions concerning his management qualities and executive capabilities are seriously challenged when the Slough and Swindon branches are merged and his former Swindon equivalent Neil takes over as area manager. To compensate, Brent cultivates his pathologically mistaken image of himself as an entertainer-motivator-comedian whose stage happens to be the workplace.
Meanwhile, Tim Canterbury (Martin Freeman), who can only maintain his sanity by teasing the priggish Gareth Keenan (Mackenzie Crook), continues to wrestle with his yearning for receptionist Dawn Tinsley (Lucy Davis), a sympathetic character persisting in a relationship with a man about whom she still maintains unspoken reservations. As ever, it's the awkward, reality TV-style pauses and silences, the furtive, meaningful and unmet glances across the emotional gulf of the open-plan office, that say it all here. As for Brent, his own breakdown is prefaced by a moment of hideous hilarity--an impromptu office dance, a mixture of 'Flashdance and MC Hammer' as Brent describes it, but in reality bad beyond description. Then, when his fate is sealed, he at last reveals himself in a memorable finale to perhaps the greatest British sitcom, besides Fawlty Towers, ever made. All this and Keith too. --David Stubbs
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Funny
It's like the American version of the office, except: they can curse and discuss sexual situations. It has quite a bit of British humour(that one is for the Brits) so sometimes it can take a while to get, or not all, unless you do a quick check on Wikipedia (I know it can't be trusted) or use Google. But as much as there is humor that you can't get there is humor you can, and again, as in typical Office fashion, plenty of that awkward, uncomfortable situational humor.
Rating: - Spot On, Spot On. Different Than American Humor!
I prefer British humor due to it being more dry & straightforward than slapstick American humor. This "Office" has its rights bought out by NBC for the smash-hit (of the same name) here in the states.
Each version has its own ROFL parts, and is a great view for any comedy fan.
The acting is top-notch, and is a must-have for any US Office fan!!
Rating: - Painfully funny
The second series of this brilliant British series is just as funny, though even darker, than the first. The Swindon and Slough branches of Werham Hogg have been combined. David Brent (Ricky Gervais) is now in charge of the combined sections, while Swindon's former boss, Neil (Patrick Baladi), has been placed above David, and he proves to be the kind of perfect boss that David has always fancied himself to be. David's naked jealousy, so transparent to everyone around him, is as painful to watch ... Read More
Rating:  - good product delivery as usual very delayed
the office (british version) is brilliant, however, the delivery of this product was one month delayed. i bought several things at amazon so far and the products were never delivered in time.
Rating: - Classic of modern comedy
At times, I found the awkwardness of Season 2 a bit forced, but on the whole it was still extremely funny.
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