Queer as Folk 2 [Region 2] |  | Director: Menhaj Huda
Actors: Aidan Gillen, Clinton Kenyon, Craig Kelly (ii), Denise Black, James Foster (iii)
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 165945
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5014138067908
ASIN: B00004RJH1
Theatrical Release Date: September 6, 2000
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 There is no fun in bigotry May 27, 2008
You have to be British to imagine such a soap opera, what do I say, A Coronation Street centered on gay people moved from the London East End to Manchester's Canal Street. But at a time when the Germans in Berlin are inaugurating a monument in honor of the pink triangles of the Nazi concentration camps, it feels good somewhere in your heart or soul. Are we finally opening the doors of all our cabinets and letting them come out and live just like anyone else? Are we finally starting the real aggiornamento that will bring everyone out and equal on the same main street, on the same bulwark to freedom, a destination that will always be a destination because there will always be some more freedom to conquer, some more way to go. But this series has gone a long way indeed. But the best part of it is how the series shows all the warped visions of the world, and there are many, the various generations of gay people, and there too there are many with many shades and hues, have grown, cultivated, bred and even amplified into some kind of both forbidding and apocalyptic myth, one of these misty myth some consider the acme of truth like the a*** being for s***, forgetting that the p*** must also be for p*** and the mouth for spit. The whole palette of gay bashing individuals is exposed though most of the time in passing notes, except at the end when 15 year old Nathan has the courage to expose a straight high school tourist who has come with his girl friend to that gay bar though he spends his time at school bashing the boys that are weaker than him and look slightly different from him, which is easy since he is a bigot. At the same time the series shows how having been forced to remain clandestine for so long, these young or not so young gay men have become unable to accept the simplest human relation that has ever existed between two or even more than two individuals, love, the famous libido, that attraction for the other, that appeal that only looks for tenderness and togetherness. And there the distortions are numerous: the butterfly that compensates his fate by fluttering from one bloom to the next and becoming a predator; the shy guy who is and has been in love with his school friend for more than fifteen years and cannot just accept it because the other is the one playing the butterfly-predator and has been since the very moment the two met; and the fifteen year old who just feels lust but discovers that lust is fun but it is always short lived and it requires running as fast as the wind from one desert to the next, from one erg to the next in the never ending sands of a lust-filled life. The film though shows him as a kid who makes his point and remains a kid and runs away from his anti-gay father, from his tolerant mother, from all his friends to go to London and what, tell me please, what on earth that he does not have there in Manchester? And yet all around these three there are plenty more who are just crossing the screen without any detailed resumes but we can imagine it is the same for them, be they playing now and then the drag queen, the sad discreet boy or man who is in love but does not have the guts to fight for it, or thinks that money can buy anything. Wrong. It is a lot more important to know all the actors who impersonated Doctor Who, a cult series but only, or should I say mainly, in GB. Of course since it is a British series the acting is a lot better than the various US soap operas because in Great Britain it is an honor for an actor to be on a TV series, in a film and on a theater stage simultaneously. Television series are not in any way a sloppy disgrace. British TV series are gems of their own merit.
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Queer as ever October 13, 2004
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved it!!!! Simular to the American counterpart; different names etc. Stuart=Brian; Vince=Michael, Nathan=Justin. Stewart is much darker and sinister than Brian; even going as far as blowing up a car;(I loved that scene)and confronting his relative who is trying to blackmail him. Its a bit difficult understanding the British lingo at times but if you watch foreign films you come to expect this. Nathan is 16 and as cute as Justin, has a face to face confrontation with his instructor in a prep school over his sexuality that truely has to be seen to be appreciated. The American version has more of a plot to it but, British version has more intense scenes which I enjoyed. A good film to have in your collection and I plan to purchase all of the British versions of QAF.
Nots as good as Series 1, but still rocks ! July 11, 2002
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought the DVD and I know the series pretty well.
Series 1 was really original at that time and somehow darker than its US counterpart.
Series 2 is a kind of tale that aims at closing the series with a tacky but emotional twist.
Worth watching for QAF fans June 14, 2002
I thought this was an excellent follow up to the first series. Sure, it was a little outlandish at the end (the Thelma and Louise feel to it was amusing), but the characters are so endearing, complicated, sympathetic, and appealing that I still enjoyed every minute of it. I was disappointed and incredulous that there was only one disk in the box, as I expected to get another four episodes out of "Series 2" -- sadly, it was just one movie. But it did wrap up a lot of the strands from the first series, and I felt satisfied by the weird ending. For fans of the first series, I think it is well worth watching. (If you weren't a fan already, there's no point.)I prefer this series to the American version any day of the week -- but then, I am generally a fan of British film and TV, and I generally hate American TV. So there's my bias. Also, I watched the British version first, so I was already digging the Brits before I started watching the American series. Brian and Michael were doomed from the start for me -- they just can't measure up to Stuart and Vince, in my book.
I held my breath... April 10, 2002
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I found myself holding my breath at times during this final part of the series. The story line is bold, quite disturbing at times, even alarming. It's not happily ever after. But I LOVED IT. I couldn't believe how exciting it was. It's not what you expect. If you want a gushy love story, go back and read Gordon Merrick. This, however, may shake you up a bit.
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