Product Description

Carleen Beadle, Karl Collins, Mat Fraser, Michael Dotchkin, Rikki Beadle Blair , Silas Carson - Director: Rikki Beadle Blair Metrosexuality opens with its enthusiastic cast (all clad in their underwear) singing the show's theme song, "It's All About Love." As the more than two dozen characters play out their lives and loves in this infectious, light-hearted romp through London's Notting Hill, audiences will quickly get caught up in the action. This amusing, fast-paced series includes all of the staples of a naughty adult soap opera -- cheating lovers, fabulous hair and costumes, copious sex and drugs, even an attempted murder.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84726 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-06-04
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 140 minutes

Customer Reviews

METRO: A STELLAR FAMILY SITCOM FOR THE NOT-SO-NEW-MILLENIUM
I heard about this British series from some entertainment magazines, but nothing could have prepared me for this. Fast-paced, colorful, eclectic cast, incredible music, and the dialogue! I've seen nothing like it, but it's hip and poignant at the same time. Two gay black fathers, separated and on the verge of divorce, raising a spitfire of a seventeen year old straight son with two gay best friends an angst-ridden and horny girlfriend with a sexy lesbian best friend and an awnry loud-mouth father...I could go on, and I will: the brassy recovering drug addict and her earnest boyfriend, the plucky lesbian couple, the homophobic ex-military man and new gay boyfriend, etc. etc...This show has it all. And the extras on this DVD are great...Extensive interviews with cast and the creator, behind-the-scenes footage AND the amazing soundtrack album with over 15 songs on it...This is a bargain...a real treat. I can't give this a higher recommendation. The whole package is stellar...A family sitcom for the not-so-new-anymore millenium...Forget QUEER AS FOLK, this is the real treasure of a British import.

Those Clothes! That Hair!
Bought this disc because the marketing claimed it was a cross between AbFab and QaF. I like both those shows, so I took a chance. Wow! Six 23-minute episodes spliced together with opening credits shown once only, it plays like a feature-length movie and that's fun. Overall, I was most impressed with the surface of the production. The costumes and, in particular, the hairstyles are, well, absolutely fabulous! Since watching it myself, I've cajoled three other guys (2 gay & 1 straight) on separate occasions to sit down and watch it with me. Each of them liked it a lot. As for myself, after 4 viewings, I'm not "metrosexed" out--I'm sure I'll easily watch it another four times. This 2-disc set has quite a few worthy extras, including the original pilot episode. Nice bonuses! It's fast, fun and has a moral center tucked underneath all the eye candy! Enjoy!

A gaudy, frenetic tribute to love and family
This colorful comedy/drama originally aired on Britain's boundary-pushing Channel 4 (home of the original "Queer as Folk"). It was a late-night miniseries, seen in six half-hour installments in early 2001. The frenetic visual style and over-the-top characters are not for all tastes, but it's a fun show whose characters turn out to be more complicated and human than they initially seem.

This American DVD offers some great extras not available on last year's British video release. Three cheers to TLA Releasing for including the wonderful pilot episode, "Heterosexuality," which in some ways I prefer to the actual series. The making-of documentary was interesting, though I could have lived without some of the creative camera work.

TV purists be warned: this DVD does not present the series in its original episodic form. It's featurized -- essentially a two-and-a-half-hour TV movie that hits a cliffhanger every 24 minutes. I usually can't stand seeing miniseries featurized, but in this one case it works.

The video quality on the extras (including the pilot) is beautiful. However, the DVD rendering of the series is slightly hard on the eyes -- at least it was on the copy I rented. The movement is a bit uneven -- probably a byproduct of the way they converted the video from European to American video standards. I'm pretty sure it didn't look like this when I saw the series originally. But after a couple of minutes, my eyes adjusted and I enjoyed rewatching the show.

The first ten minutes or so of the series are the weakest part: stick with it through the first half hour and you'll probably be hooked!