Console
best movie i've ever seen.
Chirphymium
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Tymon Sutton
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Rexanne
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
cannonballsean1992
it is no surprise that this series has been running for eight series. it is an absolutely amazing hilarious comedy. many critics look down on the series, but i personally love it. every episode is funny, providing almost continuous laughs. there is a really good chemistry between the main characters, making it believable that they are a really family. the jokes are short but often. this is what it has been panned for, lazy writing, but it is still a hilarious series.the only thing that sometimes annoys me is that supporting characters some how move in to the home, and it doesn't really make sense at times. despite this, every episode offers a plot that develops quick and provides comical value. the actors are great, my favourite character is Ben. you will probably find that a lot of the watcher reviews are good, and this is because the show is excellent, and can be watched over and over again. one of the most popular comedy series going, and it is no surprise. give it a go!
chris manley
my family has to be one of the best comedy's that the world has ever seen. the cracking story lines and acting given by some of the best performers make this brilliant. Kris Marshall is (i think)one of the greatest comedy actors ever and the role is brilliant for him, its just a shame that he didn't stay around for all 6 season. the Christmas specials are also great to. bringing back previous actors (such as Janey) to give this great comedy an added spark. there are times when the storyline is a bit stupid, but the laughs still come out all the same. I'm glad that they will all be out on DVD by the end of the year, so that i will be able to complete my collection, including all the Christmas special which are coming out in November. its just a shame that the American audience don't get them out on DVD as much as us, because they are missing out on this great British comedy. it stands out with comedy's such as only fools and horses and faulty towers. this is easily one of the best comedy's of the 21st century.
lucy-228
totally classic episodes, all of them are different but just as funny. Totally original characters. My favourite is Nick who keeps coming up with random hair brained schemes or getting a new job after new job(one a day). Ben with his dental assistant problem and Suesan's fabulous cooking. Janey always trying to get money out of Ben for clothes, Micheal the family genies (so cute in series 5+6). Then there's Abi and Alfie who are a classic addition to the family. This program always makes me smile no matter what mood I'm in. After each episode my mum comes in to my room and says that sounded like a good episode because I've been laughing so much.
IridescentTranquility
It recently occurred to me what exactly it was that appealed to me about My Family. I've loved it since it was first shown by the BBC, and now I think I know why. It has much to do with the characters.Ben is about as far away from the stereotypical father as you can get. He isn't proud of his kids - at one point he actually says of his eldest son, "Why did we have him?". He hates his job, he hates the people he works with and he almost seems to hate the life fate has meant him to live. Susan isn't much of the perfect housewife, either. She can't cook to save her life, but it never seems to bother her. Nick, who could have made his father proud by joining him in the family business, doesn't really seem to want to do anything - not get a job, not get a flat of his own, not even consider some kind of further education. Reading over my description of Nick just now makes me think I probably would encounter some kind of personality clash if I met him in real life, but there is something so great about Kris Marshall's performance as the character that makes me wish that - if I had an older brother - I would want one just like that.And then there's Janey. A lot of people don't seem to like her, even her father Ben has been quoted in the series as calling her "that air-headed shopping machine from Hell", but I think she's an interesting character. Very self-centred, very fashion-orientated, the only reason she want to go to university ("What's the one with all the clubs?") is because it's the only way she can leave home without entering the world of paid employment. A novel approach to leaving home if ever there was one.Michael is probably the most intelligent of the whole lot. He certainly seems it - watch out for a shot of him with a rabbit where Ben tells him he looks like a Bond villain. It would have been very easy to make Michael a one-dimensional character - having established his character as the brain of the family, it could have been that the writers decided there was no need to expand his characterisation any further, but they did. He still gets into girls, he still experiments with illegal substances, he even sells presents at a family wedding on eBay. This is no normal family. They're certainly not boring, and with the cast of supporting characters around them, I don't think they ever will be. The three main supporting characters, when Ben can find a dental assistant willing to stick around long enough to assist him, are his hippie dental assistant (who plays "Song of the Narwhal" in the surgery), a worryingly childlike new colleague Roger upstairs and Ben's hapless distant cousin Abi, who ends up in Casualty with a never-ending scarf wrapped round her hand the first time we meet her.
