Product Details

• Actors: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Norman Lovett, Suzanne Bertish
• Directors: Ed Bye
• Writers: Doug Naylor, Rob Grant
• Producers: Ed Bye, Ann Zahl, Paul Jackson
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: BBC Worldwide
• DVD Release Date: February 25, 2003
• Run Time: 176 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00007AP32
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,548 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Red Dwarf: Series II" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Boldly going where no one in their right mind would ever go, this popular cult sci-fi spoof takes you on a joyride three million years into the future. Those ubiquitous anti-heroes of space travel - Lister, Rimmer, Cat and Kryten - are coming to DVD for the first time ever!
Running Time: 180 min.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Red Dwarf's influence on scifi should not be underestimated, February 14, 2005

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Michael J. Tresca "Talien" (Fairfield, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Dwarf: Series II (DVD)

After watching the first season of Red Dwarf, I wasn't expecting very much from the second season. I figured it'd be more of the same...cheap sets, the slob and the neat freak, and some crazy cross between James Brown and a feline bouncing around on screen.

I was right...it's all that and more. But I was wrong to think it would be boring. The show actually takes the time to explore the characters and really get into their heads. In season 2, the show hits its stride.

David Lister (Craig Charles) is still Lister, but he's more subdued. Someone finally realized that watching a slob be a slob is funny in small doses. Which is good, because Lister got on my nerves after awhile. More screen time is given to Arnold Judas Rimmer (Chris Barrie), the real star of the show. It's easy to figure out why Lister is a pig, but the uptight Rimmer is much more intriguing. We delve into his neuroses as well as his past. And Cat (Danny John-Jules) exists primarily as Lister's foil. His quieter screen presence helps let the show be funny rather than distracting.

It is in this season that we first meet Kryten the android (David Ross), a manservant who isn't too good at determining the liveliness of his hosts. We learn about Lister's love life, the death of Rimmer's father (a touching scene that's played straight even though everyone's long dead anyway), watch the blokes play in a virtual reality game, mess with time travel, and enter a parallel universe where women rule.

I can't harp on this point enough: a lot of other science fiction shows ripped off Red Dwarf. Lister gets pregnant by a female, just like Charles Tucker in "Unexpected" on Star Trek: Enterprise. The holographic game is just like the movie eXistenz, right down to the "are we still in the game" twist. And don't even get me started on the time travel plot.

Red Dwarf isn't afraid to mess with its characters something serious. Lister feels bad for Rimmer's lack of a love life, so he transplants a few months of his own romance into the hologram's memory. What a mind-screw that is! Speaking of messing with their minds, Holly at one point decides to play the meanest practical joke in history. Only Red Dwarf has the courage to pull off entire episodes that are fake or inconclusive.

Indeed, Red Dwarf often ends without any solid conclusion. Characters wander off into the bowels of the city (where the heck DID that android go?) and storylines are dropped, only to be picked up in later episodes. Having been exposed the first two seasons of Red Dwarf for the first time ever, I'm looking forward to the show's evolution.

It may be wacky, it may sometimes not make sense, but Red Dwarf's influence on science fiction should not be underestimated. All that, and it's really funny too.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The worlds premier Sci-Fi comdey programme is here!!!, December 24, 2002

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Jeff X (Addieville, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Dwarf: Series II (DVD)

...and its about time. Join the continuing adventures of the crew of the Red Dwarf; Dave Lister (the ship screwball and slacker and the last human being alive), "Holly" (the ships computer), Arnold J. Rimmer(a holographic representation of Lister's deceased bunkmate), and "Cat" ( a humanoid who has 'evolved' from Lister's cat while he was in stasis for 3 million years) as they meet "Kryten", an android who will join the ship as a regular crewmember in season 3, survive a stasis leak, and travel to an alternate universe!!

Seasons 1 and 2 are available Feb 25th 2003, and two seasons will be released every ensuing February until all eight seasons have been released.

This is the funniest television program ever made in my opinion, and I am sure you will enjoy it!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Big improvement over Season One, May 30, 2009

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Robert Moore (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Dwarf: Series II (DVD)

I had been hearing incredible things about RED DWARF for years and was dearly disappointed watching Season One. I found the production to be really low quality, the cast to be far too male-dominated, and the writing to be less than splendid.

In Season Two the cast remained a bit too all-male for my taste, but the production improved through an obviously improved budget, and the writing seems to find its groove somewhat. The interaction between the main characters improved, with the change in dynamic between Rimmer and Lister improving markedly. In Season One every episode was highlighted by their unmasked dislike of each other. That got old quick. In Season Two they aren't exactly bosom buddies, but the constantly negativity lessened.

I haven't given up on the series yet. I've asked around on several boards and everyone assures me that the series gets a lot better after Season Two. I hope so. I started watching this in part because of a need to watch all major TV series with a robotic character. We saw him for one episode in Season Two and I know that he comes on board full time in Season Three. But I also wanted to see it because I'm interested in quality TV. Hopefully it will get better in Season Three, but that won't retroactively make the first two seasons better. But it is improving. If we could do fractions, I would have given Season One a 2.5 rating while Season Two a 3.2. Hopefully Season Three will get a 4.0.