Absolutely the worst movie.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

You probably have to know London a bit to fully enjoy the story of Neverwhere (the series or the novel for that matter). The whole story relies on knowing a bit of the city layout, above and below :) And it's understandable that US viewers can be surprised by the low budget BBC production (unless they were familiarized with it through stuff like Dr Who which seems to be popular at the moment). Most European TVs don't get to sell their productions abroad so they won't invest as heavily as the US productions.I read the novel long before I could get my hands on the DVD (actually way before I was even aware of anything being available in filmed form, much less as a DVD). For some reason the only release seems to be for the US market.Regarding the Neverwhere series, yes, while the cast is mostly good, some of the actors are so-so. Even with the obviously shoestring budget, the sets and costumes are quite inventive and convincingly used. The directing unfortunately is really poor and it does quite a bit of damage to the effectiveness of the whole.If you have read and enjoyed the novel, you will find the series to be something imperfect yes but also something that you can watch with fondness. Possibly a proper adaptation by a proper director with a decent budget would be nice. But it's unlikely it will ever happen. Isn't it better to enjoy what's available even if it could theoretically be better ?

I came to Neverwhere pretty late having enjoyed the Sandman books by Gaiman. He really is a classy story teller and I love the punky, edginess he brings to his tales..The lurid colours in the TV show were a bit odd at times but kind of added to the overall weirdness of a pleasantly unusual story. London I think is an underused city in fantasy and it was nice to see places like the underground and St Paul's being used like this. All the performances were solid enough and thought they came across as accurate depictions of the characters in the book - I heard that Gaiman wrote the novel of his scripts while the TV show was filming so this maybe isn't surprising. A little gem of a TV oddity.

I borrowed this DVD set from my local library and had to turn it off ten minutes or less into the "programme." The dialogue was written so unnaturally, immaturely, and talentlessly, it felt like the author was spitting barbed-wire insults into my ear with each half-shat, incredulity-spawning utterance of the script-cursed actors. I loved Lenny Henry in his show "Chef" -- he's obviously an intelligent and witty man. Neil Gaiman, on the other hand, has proved throughout his publishing career that he possesses no more literary talent than one would expect from a prancing-penned, new-age, semi-goth, leather-jacket-and-sunglasses twit who apparently missed the musical bulletin that Bela Lugosi is, in fact, dead. (To speak more precisely, "twit" in this man's case should be spelled with an alternate vowel of the species "a.") The urinary outpourings of Gaiman's clammy handed word processor make me want to reach for an Ebola-spiked cyanide capsule. May he be cursed with a Tori Amos lunch-box full of shame for having sprayed the gullible reading public with his nonstop stream of poorly chewed mythological magpie stew.

After being treated to the first episode of this gritty tale of another world I was left desperate for more! I am quite surprised that this passed me by in the first instance. What on earth was I doing in 1996 when this was being shown?Neverwhere begins with the introduction of its characters in a less than conventional way. It almost puts you off by its quirky and totally off the rails introduction. Once you get over this and the low budget nature of the program you find that the storyline is quite appealing. There are many familiar faces to discover throughout each episode.This 6 episode adventure would appeal to fans of Dr Who and general low budget science fiction. This is never going to be mainstream programming and thats where its appeal lies. Give the first 10 minutes of episode one a try, its a pretty good indicator of the general story itself, and it got me hooked pretty quickly.8/10 LEWIS CAROL EAT YOUR HEART OUT!