Whoopsie!
I thought (or seemed to remember I thought) Whoops Apocalypse was hilarious, as I first watched it when aired in 1982. In recent years I found myself looking for it to become available on DVD. In the absence of the TV series, I bought the film version when it came to DVD a few years ago. But I couldn't finish it, it was so bad. It tags along, unloved and unwanted, on this release too.
Time hasn't been kind to the series. At the time it may have been biting satire; but the problem with political jokes, other than them being elected, is that they're a product of their time. Rather like Hot Metal, what seemed funny then, falls flat now. There were a couple of laugh out loud moments in Whoops Apocalypse, but most of the time I found myself remarkably, and disappointingly, unaffected.
I guess that anything with Ed Bishop, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Jones, Richard Davies, and John Cleese cannot be all bad. And they all play their parts well. But the writing was, in most part, lame. And the ending was, frankly, not worth the wait.
Hey ho. I would bin it but, like Hot Metal, I'm going to keep it. If only to prevent me wasting my money should the wave of nostalgia arise again.
2/5