To me, this movie is perfection.

Good concept, poorly executed.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

It was awful. Three jokes made me laugh - three. And Atkinson said in the the "making of" that each line was written to be funny. No way. It was so bad it was predictable - something never present in a good comedy. After seeing the main episode I went on to see the special features to hopefully find something else funny - the scenes that were cut were funnier than what was left in.This is the last and unfortunately the worst possible episode of Blackadder. It is completely untrue to the utterly brilliant TV Series that shined so often throughout its invention. Don't see it unless you want to be hurt by the expectatus nihil humoratus. 1/10-LD_____________________________________________my faith: http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/jbc33/

Even though a lot of people on this forum seem to think this is rubbish i think this is a great blackadder ( although not as good as the TV series i admit ), It is funny and tries to incorporate a family audience to blackadder, I saw the film @ the Dome when i was just 10 and i was laughing my head off. There are a phew mistakes with crew visible but it is a nice short film to end the blackadder series.The crew all seem to have had a great time making the film and it was a good send off after the killing off the characters in series 4, it shows them all as very good friends and Rowan Atkinson @ his cunning best.

Blackadder was one of the greatest comedies of the 80s - and this superb special one-off episode does not let it down. The episode looks a heck of a lot more modern than the old Blackadder series - and the idea to have Blackadder and Baldrick sailing through time in a newly-built time machine in order to win a bet is one that is original and fits well with Blackadder's historical background.Blackadder brings modern life into the Elizabethan era in an extremely funny way (he shows a Tesco Cashcard to Queen Elizabeth I - absolutely hilarious), beats up William Shakespeare, kills the Duke of Wellington and Baldrick's pants wipe out the dinosaurs. All of these outrageous moments are successfully incorporated into the plot rather than them just being there for humorous effect - and that is what makes this episode great, as Blackadder sets off on his adventures. More hilarious one-liners and situations do not let down the original Blackadder legacy, and though Blackadder Back & Forth lacks the cruel wit and sarcasm of its predecessors, its big budget and hilarious script ensure it is one to be reckoned with.Absolutely hilarious! 10/10

I've come to this conclusion about Rowan Atkinson: Unless he is doing physical humor in roles like Mr Bean, he definately needs an audience to react to. Here I am assuming that the original Black Adder and Not the Nine O'Clock News series were filmed before an audience. There is something about his film roles which is a little too slick, his delivery and timing suffers.As such, "Black Adder Back and Forth," is not a success. Its done entirely on film, unlike the original Black Adder, and also unlike the original it has a much bigger budget -- or, I should say, it has a budget. When you see it, you are filled with frustration as lines which are funny, which should have been funny, are bulldozed through. Without having to wait for audience laughter, there's not enough pause to let the joke sink in. You basically just get this vague impression that something funny happened, "Oh yes, this is a joke, ha, ha." This is a pity, as the material is just as funny as usual.Also, you get the impression that they were trying to make a series out of it, but in the end, just settled on editting it all together for a movie, so in a lot of ways it feels rushed. Finally, in listening to the interviews with the writers about the material, you can't help but feeling the Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, now that they have moved on to bigger and better things, have nothing but contempt for the material that they were working with. As such, the whole movie seems a little bit nastier than the previous series.