Blackadder Back & Forth

19991999
33m

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.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.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.

7.6/10

15K

Director
- Paul Weiland
Writers
- Richard Curtis(television series "The Black Adder", "Blackadder II", "Blackadder the Third" and "Blackadder Goes Forth")
- Ben Elton(television series "Blackadder II", "Blackadder the Third" and "Blackadder Goes Forth")
- Rowan Atkinson(television series "The Black Adder")
Stars

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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award
- 1 nomination total

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Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Miranda Richardson, Hugh Laurie, Rik Mayall, Kate Moss, and Tony Robinson in Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)

Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Miranda Richardson, Hugh Laurie, Rik Mayall, Tim McInnerny, Kate Moss, and Tony Robinson in Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)

Rowan Atkinson, Rik Mayall, and Kate Moss in Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)

Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Miranda Richardson, Hugh Laurie, and Tim McInnerny in Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)

Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson in Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)

Rik Mayall and Kate Moss in Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)

Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and Tony Robinson in Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988)

Director
- Paul Weiland
Writers
- Richard Curtis(television series "The Black Adder", "Blackadder II", "Blackadder the Third" and "Blackadder Goes Forth")
- Ben Elton(television series "Blackadder II", "Blackadder the Third" and "Blackadder Goes Forth")
- Rowan Atkinson(television series "The Black Adder") (uncredited)
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New Year's Eve, 1999, Blackadder Hall. While exchanging pleasantries with his hand-picked guests--Archbishop Melchett, Archdeacon Kevin Darling, Lieutenant George, and Lady Elizabeth--cunning-as-a-fox Lord Edmund Blackadder suggests a wager on the brink of the new millennium. To prove that he can travel through time with his fully operational time machine, built to the exact specifications of the great Leonardo Da Vinci, Blackadder bets each £10,000 that he can retrieve any item of historical interest they request. Of course, the marvellous device is nothing more than a pile of planks ingeniously put together by Baldrick, and imagine their surprise when the mismatched duo discovers that the time-travel machine truly works. But tampering with history is never without grave consequences. Will the world be the same after Blackadder's trip across centuries? —Nick Riganas

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Taglines
- The final episode in the saga of the Blackadder family, who have forever been at the very center of British history and society.
Genres
Parents guide

Trivia
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.

Goofs
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.

Quotes
Blackadder: [punches Shakespeare] That is for every schoolboy and schoolgirl for the next 400 years! Have you any idea how much suffering you're going to cause? Hours spent at school desks trying to find ONE joke in "A Midsummer's Night Dream", wearing stupid tights in school plays and saying things like, "What ho, my Lord," and, "Oh, look, here comes Othello talking total crap as usual."
[kicks Shakespeare]
Blackadder: And THAT is for Ken Branagh's endless, four-hour version of Hamlet.
William Shakespeare: Who's Ken Branagh?
Blackadder: I'll tell him you said that, and I think he'll be rather hurt...

Crazy credits
The opening credits are a series of historical paintings and photographs, featuring Blackadder "Forrest-Gumped" into them..

Connections
Featured in Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga (2008)

Soundtracks
Robin Hood
Written by Carl Sigman (as Carl Stigman)
Published by Memory Lane Music Ltd.

Top review

6/10

Great reunion, for actors and fans.

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.

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