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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780783121710 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 0783121717 Item Dimensions: Label: Home Box Office (HBO) Languages: Manufacturer: Home Box Office (HBO) MPN: 99180 Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Home Box Office (HBO) Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 13, 2004 Running Time: 360 minutes Studio: Home Box Office (HBO) Theatrical Release Date: October 15, 2000 Editorial Review: Product Description: He's got it all a loving wife good friends a successful career a good home... What could go wrong for Larry David? CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM stars "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David as himself in an unsparing cinema verite depiction of his life. Featuring real life celebrities playing themselves the episodes are improvised by the actors from storylines by David.Running Time: 390 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 026359918025 Manufacturer No: 99180 Amazon.com: Like its fellow HBO series Sex and the City, this half-hour comedy broke some TV rules and went from critics' darling to an award-winning series in three years. Curb Your Enthusiasm is the brainchild of star-creator Larry David who co-created Seinfeld and was the basis for the easily rattled George Costanza (who was played by Jason Alexander). Like George, David has a tendency to speak too much, blow things out of proportion, and, most often, fail in the end (and often liking it that way). David's new show is also like its predecessor: it's about "nothing" except following the day-to-day ramblings of a sometime writer and comic (this time in L.A.). Eternal questions stemming from universal daily dilemmas are honed to perfect comedic absurdity. A notable exception is the show is only scripted by plot; much of the action is improvised. The first season starts with a one-hour mockumentary following David's return to stand-up for the first time in years; the other 10 episodes follow a more traditional sit-com setup. David plays "himself" (as does his friend, Richard Lewis) although his manager and wife are played by comedians Jeff Garlin and Cheryl Hines. Although this first season is a comedic gem, one can't take more than an episode or two at a time--it's acidic, biting comedy. The episodes are often built like a house of cards, which the irritable David will surely collapse by the end. Like another caustic TV character, Dabney Colman's Buffalo Bill (1983-84), Larry David is not for everybody. --Doug Thomas Average Rating:
 Rating:  - So funny but not for those over 70I like challenging my family and introducing them to material that stretches their point of view. Not being an HBO subscriber, I was hoping CYE would be on the level of Seinfeldt- good for the whole family. Larry David's all too frequent use of the "F" word and crude references to male and female organs in my mind makes this rich series inaccessible for grandma and grandpa, the grandkids, and probably many church goers who could really benefit from this sophisticated humor. IMHO, it's a shame ... Read More Rating: - Funny Funny StuffMy sister told me a long time ago about this show. I had never seen it and she told me that she loved it. She assured me that I would like it. Well, I got the first season the other day and I must say that she was right. This show is hilarious!!!! I recommend it to anybody. Larry David is funny as hell. Rating: - Funniest Show I've Ever SeenCurb is the most irreverant, taboo-busting comedy series I've ever seen. Some may find it offensive, but those are the best people to watch it with. Rating:  - The best modern version of the Restoration comedies of Wycherly and Congreve4.5 stars Some of this series has been great, and some of it painfully embarrassing to watch (let's face it, sometimes Larry is just a spoiled selfish brat). The great moments can be truly classic, however, never more so than in the hour-long pilot, where the concept of the show is not yet fully in place, and the real Larry appears as well as the LD he says (in the commentary)he wishes he could be, who is the main character in the series. In the pilot we get Jerry and Jason Alexander ... Read More Rating: - Always greatI love this show, I never saw it when it originally aired on TV, so I went to the DVDs since friends said I'd love it. First viewing a couple of episodes I wasn't sucked in, but when I saw the one where he has to take his shoes off at the porno actor's house, I had a flashback! It was hilarious and also close to home. Oddly, I had the same situation happen to me years ago! Larry David's themes may sometimes seem trite, but they aren't, he goes deeper and deeper into many Hollywood and personal taboos and ... Read More |
