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Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)
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Richard Curtis (television series "The Black Adder", "Blackadder II", "Blackadder the Third" and "Blackadder Goes Forth") &
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At a New Millennium Eve party Blackadder and Baldrick test their new time machine and ping pong through history encountering famous characters and changing events rather alarmingly.... full summary | add synopsis
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Great reunion, for actors and fans.
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(Credited cast)| Rowan Atkinson | ... | Lord Edmund Blackadder / King Edmund III / Blackaddercus | |
| Tony Robinson | ... | Sod-Off Baldrick / Baldrickus | |
| Miranda Richardson | ... | Lady Elizabeth / Queen Elizabeth | |
| Tim McInnerny | ... | Archdeacon Darling / Duc de Darling / Duke of Darling | |
| Hugh Laurie | ... | Viscount George Bufton-Tufton / Georgius | |
| Stephen Fry | ... | Bishop Flavius Melchett / Melchett / General Melchecus / Wellington | |
| Rik Mayall | ... | Robin Hood | |
| Colin Firth | ... | William Shakespeare | |
| Kate Moss | ... | Maid Marian / Queen Marian | |
| Patsy Byrne | ... | Nursie | |
| Simon Russell Beale | ... | Napoleon | |
| Jennie Bond | ... | Royal Reporter | |
| Crispin Harris | ... | Friar Tuck | |
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| Amanda Jane Manning | ... | Lady in waiting | |
| Tyronnosaurus Rex | ... | Dinosaur | |
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Time for Blackadder (UK) (working title)
Untitled Blackadder Millennium Project (USA) (working title)
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Untitled Blackadder Millennium Project (USA) (working title)
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33 min
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At the dinner party at the beginning, a portrait of Captain Blackadder from "Blackadder Goes Forth" (1989) is positioned on the wall behind the present Blackadder.
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Anachronisms: When Blackadder runs into Shakespeare after his visit with Elizabeth I, he picks up a copy of "Macbeth". "Macbeth" was written during the time of James I.
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Blackadder:
May I present to you, the greatest breakthrough in travel since Sir Rodney Tricycle thought to himself, "I'm bored of walking. I think I'll invent something with three wheels and a bell, and name it after myself": the time machine.
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Referenced in Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga (2008) (TV)
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Blackadder Back and Forth was, or seems to be, meant as a collector's film for fans of Blackadder, and also as a fun reunion for the actors at the millennium. That is, it started out with the same motif as the other Blackadder series: just to have fun and be funny. Though Back and Forth is only funny as an addition to the other Blackadder's, not by itself. All the other series' could be funny on their own. This movie isn't a disappointment if you realize that it's just a wrap up put together for fun at the turn of the millenium, it wasn't meant to be like the other Blackadders, and it certainly isn't. It's a mere following of some of the characters throughout time, which is funny in itself, especially the part with the Romans and the short skirts.
The only real disappoint I had was the loss of Percy Percy. Even in the "Making of a Blackadder" they seemed to avoid talking about Percy Percy deliberately. I think it's great to see Tim McInnerny as more than one role in the series: Darling and Percy (and Smedly), because he's such a terrific and underrated actor, but I loved him the most as Percy and I miss that character. I know he doesn't want to be pigeon-holed as just one character, and he shouldn't be, but it would have been great to see both Percy and Darling in one film.