Unlimitedia
Sick Product of a Sick System
XoWizIama
Excellent adaptation.
Portia Hilton
Blistering performances.
tsc-60510
'Danger 5' is an attempt at an absurdist spoof of the myriad spy, war, and action movie tropes in our cultural consciousness. However in execution the show is a bizarre, self-indulgent and disjointed mess that never quite makes it to being clever or satirical and fails to make any more than superficial use of its source material. 'Danger 5' is the product of creator/writer/director/actors Dario Russo and David Ashby who we can only assume were given a Netflix series after some executive saw how much ad revenue their racist, sexist, one-joke self-published web series 'Italian Spiderman' (2008) made. As the show's auteurs, they probably saw films like 'Inglorious Basterds' or 'Team America: World Police' and, without understanding their satirical construction, thought it would be funny combine the two. The result, much like 'Italian Spiderman', is a painful, tediously amateurish production featuring actors attempting to create humor by overacting and mugging for the camera.'Danger 5' is a show that is in no way original or distinct except in its terribleness and is an unworthy entrant into the wonderful worlds of absurdist and Australian humor. It is the single worst thing I have seen in the last 10 years and represents the only time I have ever yelled at my TV.I would not recommend 'Danger 5'
Logan Fowler
WARNING: If you do not enjoy corny and hilarious effects, story, and all out production, this is NOT for you.Danger 5 is split upon 2 series. Series 1 is based upon World War 2, using a 60's style of filming it. A team named Danger 5 is set out to kill Adolf Hitler, and in doing so brings them to many bizarre places. Each character is based from a different country, which makes them unique in ways.Series 2 is set in an 80's theme. The now-split up Danger 5 lives their lives until Hitler resurfaces and has a new master plan to conquer the Post World War 2 era.This show is amazing and I highly recommend it if you enjoy cheesy hilarious comedy action.
EbonWolf
My best friend and i found this on Netflix... we did not expect what was about to happen. From the first episode on we were laughing out loud to the point of tears. I do not remember ever having seen anything this amazing in my life. I've shown it to several friends since then, and re-watched the first season multiple times and it keeps getting better every. single. time. Very similar in tone to Monty Python and the Mighty Boosh. I admit, season 2 is not nearly as hilarious as the first, bit it is still amazing and ball-shatteringly funny. Also Ilsa is literally the hottest thing, ever. 10/10: would watch on a desert island for the rest of my life.
soppiestcorgi93
Danger 5 is a 2011 Australian television series produced by Dinosaur that is a mixture of 50's shows with The Naked Gun movies; the result is a very funny adventure of a group of five super spies serving the Allies against Hitler's Axis.The humor of this series is very reminiscence of the cult web series Italian Spiderman, freely available on YouTube, this is not mere coincidence, because the creator of Italian Spiderman Dario Russo and David Ashby are the creator of Danger 5.The heroes are the macho man Jackson(David Ashby),Ilsa a more than seductive Russian woman( Natasa Ristic), the leader of the group Tucker(Sean James Murphy), the intelligent but never listened to Claire(Amanda Simon's) and an agent with special bartender skills Pierre(Aldo Mignone).Their interactions during the episodes are gold, every character is fleshed out during the episodes giving them personality, traits and even some little, but still interesting, backstories.During the six episodes of the first season they fight against Hitler(Carmine Russo) in bizarre plots involving dinosaurs Nazis, powerful monsters(Kaijus) that feel straight from Power Rangers or even the dark powers of Hitler's himself in a casino.There is a lot of visual gags and sound gags like Nazi flags on martinis, cheap sets and effects from the 50s serials, combination of different spoken languages and so, everything is played straight by all the actors so it's even more humorous because it's like the series is not self-aware. The attention to the detail is astounding, it's like everything came directly from the fifties, it's a perfect emulation of everything that made those shows great and not so-great.There is a lot of references to old classic shows like the Japanese Super Sentai (Power Rangers in the west), Star Trek, Johnny Quest etc. You are always laughing and delighting yourself from all the craziness that is happening.This series is an instant classic for me, my favorite episode is ""Hitler's Golden Murder Palace" because of how crazy the plot is and how funny everything rolls and my favorite scene is Jackson shooting a cigar to Ilsa mouth's using a handgun.
