The Mighty Boosh: Future Sailors Tour - Live

I've been a huge Boosh fan for years and was sorely disappointed by this tour and the resultant DVD. It seems that there was public demand for a tour, so they did one, regardless of whether or not they had any material for one and they definitely didn't have the material for it. The Boosh boys are so good at ridiculous, yet hilarious plots, but that's completely missing from this. There is no plot, just a mishmash of disappointing sketches featuring old jokes and characters thrown in for Little Britain-style catchphrase repetition. The show just doesn't work and it's clear that no real effort has been put into the writing. They've also tried to fake the shambolic and improvised nature that made the Boosh so popular originally with a number of obviously rehearsed slip-ups that coincidentally happened on every show of the tour. It's such a shame if two of the most exciting and original comedy minds of recent years are as out of ideas as this suggest.

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I've been a huge Boosh fan for years and was sorely disappointed by this tour and the resultant DVD. It seems that there was public demand for a tour, so they did one, regardless of whether or not they had any material for one and they definitely didn't have the material for it. The Boosh boys are so good at ridiculous, yet hilarious plots, but that's completely missing from this. There is no plot, just a mishmash of disappointing sketches featuring old jokes and characters thrown in for Little Britain-style catchphrase repetition. The show just doesn't work and it's clear that no real effort has been put into the writing. They've also tried to fake the shambolic and improvised nature that made the Boosh so popular originally with a number of obviously rehearsed slip-ups that coincidentally happened on every show of the tour. It's such a shame if two of the most exciting and original comedy minds of recent years are as out of ideas as this suggest.

The complete lack of extras on the DVD itself is pretty atrocious. If you want any extras such as behind the scenes documentary, you have to buy a 'Special Edition' set that also contains the 2006 tour DVD, which every Boosh fan worth their salt will already own. As amazing as the previous tour was (and it really was, which made this one even more of a let down), I don't want to own it twice.