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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Where have I seen this before? Ah,a classic this - 4 main characters (3 male, 1 female) all living in a claustrophobic, shabby house fill of bric a brac, with a central protagonist whose plans never work and is obliged to bluster his way out of tight and surreal situations. Yup, Father Ted was a classic... Uh... Sorry, wrong series. It does have it's own charm and I don't regret buying it to add to the collection (being a big fan of Simon Pegg who holds the whole thing together), but having seen the aforementioned series, Hippies... more info
Not a patch on ususal Simon Pegg stuff I've liked most of Simon Pegg's other work (Spaced, Shaun of the Dead) but this series was really boring. I gave up watching it after 2 episodes. It is very low budget and the script is unoriginal and the characters are uninteresting.
A lost Gem I'm with most fellow reviewers here. The joy of Hippies is in the small details that highlight the hilarity and embarrassment of the post flower power era when us "students" (ie anyone too lazy to get a job) wanted to excercise our new political awareness but didn't have a clue how to go about it. We spent our time in "happenings" "sit-ins" and other pointless protests, and some, like Simon Pegg's character here, thought they could change the world with ridiculous or childish magazines read by few and... more info
Hippies after nine whole years! This show was first aired in 1999 before much of the cast hit it big e.g Simon Pegg. First of all if youv'e seen Father Ted or Black books, then you'll probably enjoy this as it's written by the co-writer of Father Ted and as for Black books, that was written by Graham Linham (the other writer).
Anyhow about the show, it's based in 1969 (the hieght of hippiedum) and sets about ridiculing the Hippie way of life and with hilarious performances from teh cast: Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and... more info
