Arrested Development: Complete Season 1 (3 Discs)

Took an episode or two to jump into the humor but when you do its fantastic. Too funny.

A great programme that should never have been canceled. excellently preformed.

My manager let me borrow this series of Arrested Development and within the first 6 minutes i was hooked! It is absolutely fab extremelly funny, the cast are just fantastic!!!! I love it!!! I am a massive American T.V show junkie thought, so if you're not a fan of American sitcoms and very dry sense of humour you may not like it! Defo worth buying in my opinion it's just a shame they axed it after the 3rd season! Word has it they are making a film though :0)

This has got to be the most pointless, boring and unfunny program ever made. I had heard good things about it before but i was left very dissappointed.
It contains a strange american sense of humour with few jokes in each episode.
do not buy it!

Arrested development is hands down the best comedy show ever, it's funny and smart and there are so many details and hidden references there that you can watch the show MANY times.. I've watched it 4 times and I plan to watch it at least 4 times more before I die :)

I can't even start with how amazing this show is, it's the most watchable and rewarding comedy I think I've ever seen. It's as good as if not better than Frasier but it's a very different kind of sitcom.

It begins with Michael Bluth (the AWESOME and perfectly cast Jason Bateman) and his large wealthy Californian family having their assets seized and their property company put on the ropes after their father ('The Larry Sanders Show's' Jeffrey Tambor) is arrested and jailed for 'some light treason'. The first season follows the family - as if a camera crew were recording them, with narration from Ron Howard - as they are forced to become a family again and save the company.

The cast works so well together - Jessica Walter is comedy gold as Lucille the Matriarch, Portia De Rossi as Micheal's sister, Lindsay, David Cross as her confused former Doctor husband, Tobias, the equally awesome Micheal Cera (Juno) as Micheal's son George Micheal, and Alia Shawkatt as Lindsay and Tobias' daughter Maebe (on whom George Micheal has a conflicting crush), and finally Gob, the last Bluth sibling, a failed magician, played expertly by Will Arnett.

But every episode is SO layered with gags you can literally watch this a dozen times and still see new jokes - both verbal and visual - going off everywhere. It's so densely packed it's as rewarding to me to watch now, after many, many viewings, as it was the first time.

With a guest roster including Liza Minelli, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Henry Winkler (priceless as the slaezy family attorney), and many other comedy stars this is comedy genius that you rarely see.

Please, please, just buy this first series, and you'll have the rest in no time!!!

Arrested development is just a fantastic series that is a must have on dvd. In case your not aware of this modern classic here's a very quick history. Fox buys the show it gets great reviews from tv critics and fans begin to spread wildly, then no one watched any of the series because fox couldn't make up their minds when to schedule it and when they do make a "brilliant" suggestion. Then fox pulls the plug when the ratings go down hill "because all the fans end up watching american idol or something more important and didn't even know that fox where showing it" fans cry till they get the dvds and start watching them again from episode one. So the fat cats didn't like it and chose to axe it in the middle of making season 3 and it's a great shame because this series is just fantastic it's very well made directed written and acted by all the cast and crew and has set a great example of how to make a brilliant comedy. You should buy this dvd right now! So you can enjoy it in all it's glory and with the rumours of a movie version being made you should jump on the bandwagon while you can. Buy it now buy it now!

Becuase i wee'd myself several times watching this series, its most definetly one of the smartest, funniest, comedy series ever created, lets put it this way, Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Ben Stiller and J.D. from Scrubs all endource and play some part in this TV series. I bought the first series and the next day bought the second, then the next day i bought the third, addictive to say the least!

The series revolves around a dysfuctional family, the most hilarious dysfunctional family ever, The Bluth's.
The Bluth's who are a rich succesful buisness driven family, have there world come crashing down when the Owner of the Bluth empire, the father/grandfather Pop Pop goes to jail for embeselment of company funds, this leaves the dim-wited Bluth family to fend for themselves, who turn to 1 man, Michael Bluth, the only smart one out of the lot... well kind of. this sparks an outragous comedy spectacular which includes company power struggles, urges of inbreeding, Granny love, and a little bit of magic! As Michael Bluth finds his family is incapable of completing even the most simple of tasks!

I brought this recently as i had to return an item to a shop & couldnt get a refund so i had to exchange it. I happend to see this in the sale & thought what the hell ill give it a go! & blimey am i glad i did!! It has to be one of the funniest smartest shows on tv. I gutted to hear that it got axed although rumour has it there is a film in the pipeline. All the characters are likeable in particular micheal,gob & george michael.I cant stress enough how funny this show is, so if u wana laugh & looking to try something new go out on the limb like i did & take a chance with this show because its blooming brillaint. I want to be in the bluth family!! never a dole moment! BUY IT!!

Arrested Development is something of a seriously rare quality. All of the series regulars are so in tune with their characters, and each other that it seems they were born into their parts;

Michael Cera's George-Michael fumbles nervously around for an excuse to justify his crush on his cousin Maeby (played by the pretty damn awesome Alia Shawkat), while David Cross and Portia de Rossi's portrayal of husband and wife Tobias and Lindsey is the perfect spin on a modern relationship-of-convenience (especially considering how inconvenient it all is).

Cross, and Cera especially, give two of the consistently finest performances in American comedy since Roseanne.

Jason Bateman and Will Arnett bounce off each other in their scenes to a obscenely fun degree, but nothing in comparison to Jessica Walter as sociopathic head case Lucille and Tony Hale as youngest (and cripplingly awkward) son Buster.

You don't even realise some of the stories are going on; they're so brilliantly disguised and intermingled within each scene that by the time an episode has finished you've watched a hell of a lot more than you realise.

This is because the script isn't plot heavy - it's character and dialogue heavy instead (given that these two traits are by far the show's strongest) without bogging its audience down in complications.

As well as this, the guest stars in this series are amazing. Especially Liza Minnelli.

This really is great television. If you want something you can keep track on, all the have to do is pay attention to the (excellent) narration by Ron Howard, and if you just want something to chuckle over one-liners to, you'll be hard-pressed to find a show with better dialogue than this.