Customer Reviews

The Kids in the Hall: Tour of Duty

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I was disappointed at the lack of original material on this disc. It is some of their best sketches - word for word - performed onstage, including the Chicken Lady and Kathy and Cathy. There is a new Buddy Cole sketch which is lukewarm, a likewise mediocre Headcrusher skit and the Dr. Suess bible thing...whaaa?

I'm glad I only rented this and not purchased it, but it does give you a Kids fix if you really need it. Why can they can put Friends and that junk out on DVD season by season but no Kids? Come on! Kids on DVD! Kids on DVD!

This is the best us Kids fans are going to get until the original episodes make it to DVD (cross your fingers). However, it's a good DVD that captures a pretty good performance. Most of the classic characters make an appearance, including the Head Crusher, Simon Milligan & Hecubus, Gavin, and a good new monologue from Buddy Cole (dealing with, of course, dressing in drag in Afghanistan), among others.

Essential for all KITH fans, but it will become obsolete when we get the episodes on DVD.

Everyone who saw the Kids In The Hall on their 2002 "Tour Of Duty" had to be hoping that a home video version of the show would come out - and now here it is! While I can't remember every single sketch the Kids did - in my case, at the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse - rest assured - a lot of classuc characters like Simon Milligan and the Head-Crushing Guy make appearances, as well as a few new sketches written post - 9/11.
The cast really responded to the energy of a live show, though on the night I saw them, Kevin McDonald was pretty much voted Kid In The Hall Most Liable To Break Up During A Sketch.
This was a very skillfully performed sketch show with terrific, functional screen backdrops and excellent sound. If you loved the KITH live, you'll want to own the DVD or video.

These piddly DVDs of tours and such are all well and good, but they don't hold a 1/2 candle power candle to the original series. How long until the fans get Kids episodes on DVD? For this is what we truly want, and will pay a hefty ransom for them to be set free, emblazoned on Digital Versatile Discs!

Brought it for $3.99 at a Big Lots, thinking it would be funny, Since I am a fan of the show, Total Waste, Waste of time and money, Not worth the 3.99+tax. not even 99 cents. Fans of the show should stay away and watch The Show, it is much more entertaining than this.

I have to say I was dissapointed in the comedic value of this DVD. Although the production values where higher than KITH SGND, the composition was not so good.

I skipped through most of it waiting for funny sketches.

Scott wasn't nearly as funny, there were no backstage funny dramas (as before) and no funny commentary.

If you want backstage information, you have to watch the whole video and wait for an icon to appear (a setting for this appears in the special features section).

I absolutely loved this tour! Bruce was kind enough to give me second row center seats! So of course watching this reminds me of that wonderful day! I guess if you missed out on this tour it might have a different feel for you. I only wish the would have taped the 2008 tour! All new stuff! what were they thinking!!! Anyways a must have for anyone that saw the 2002 tour!

I have to say that this concert DVD is so disappointingly unfunny..it makes you long for the days of their original series. As an avid fan of KITH I wish they would return to TV comedy and leave behind their half baked attempts at touring. I recommend their previous DVD "Same Guys New Dresses" although that DVD is more of a "behind-the-scenes" documentary. You have to give the guys credit, though, for still performing together. TOD mostly rehashes old KITH sketches (albeit a little more raunchy than the originals)..most of which falls flat..even Scott Thompson's "Buddy Cole" sketch falls far short of his classic original sketches. They may be older..but their not wiser. Let's not even bring up the camera work and sound editing (the disc and packaging lack imagination)..seems like the work of an amateur. All in all..this concert simply rehashes old sketches..you will have that "seen this before" feeling while watching it. Hopefully someone will release the complete original series on DVD like so many sitcoms and shows are doing.

The Kids' performances are as good as ever - they're all older and look it, but effortlessly slip back into the troupe. Their sketch comedy translates surprisingly well to the live stage.
However, the video quality of this DVD is not up to par - there are extremely bad compression artifacts throughout. Although the packaging trumpets "wide screen" in several places, the image is in fact a 4:3 letterbox, not actual wide screen. The menu interface is minimal and amateur. One unique feature, "Behind the Screens" shows the activity backstage via a couple of stationary cameras - but there is little to see, and once you go backstage, there seems to be no way to skip these long, boring segments and return to where the action is. If I didn't know better, I'd have thought that his DVD was created in someone's basement using amateur tools and talents.

Canada loves the Kids! Why oh where did this DVD go and take so long to come out?The Kids said it would be PPV soon after.We searched for it to show up for months after seeing this live and it was the funniest show EVER! Its so exciting to bring this DVD home to see how it looks to DVD buyers.Its going to beat their last DVD with a jumpy camera.At the show this DVD! Fans jumped up and dodwn; shouting apreciation and standing O's.Nope, there wasnt comments from start to finish.The part interviewing fans must have some of the funniest material and where was it.It's a live show; no opinions;what friction made funny stuff on Same Guys was filtered and ommited. This DVD is all on stage,looking strange on DVD and dont make sense like it did to see it all. Kids fans are delighted to see them again but face it. We're the harshest critics.I say this because its a cult and matches how the DVD is criticized.The loudest whiners about the DVD are the biggest fans who know all the dialogue and everything. Who bought the shirts; pins; books; and met the Kids In The Hall; and HAVENT given DVD reviews Yet, hows that for weird?? AND EVERYONE WENT HOME HAPPY FROM A TOUR OF DUTY SHOW! A live show makes us want more and the DVD didnt deliver enough of it.Edited and sterile is how it looks when it gets plunked in the player;such a shame the Kids mustve had to do that to get the dvd out.Maybe its edited to please PPV. The tour was the old sketches the way they should be;live uncensored and delivered smoothly raw.Its not the same as live, it never will be but fans will buy it to add to our collections and some day they will put out a 2 DVD set that is the most appealing of the last 2 DVD's. Heres' for a new commentary on one DVD and new characters and skits live on the 2nd DVD.