Before you sit down to watch this show, get your history books. Have you got them? Good. Now put them out of your reach and discard whatever knowledge you have readily available. This show has anachronistic references, language and persons. And yet, it delivers roughly 22 minutes of undiluted fun and games. I've seen others review this show negatively due to the historic persons who are sometimes decades out of place. Well, so what? The story takes place on a fictitious island called Pulau Pulau, the governor of which is a stereotypical, campy French man, an over the top British lady inventor (whose attractiveness is comparable only to Earth's gravitational pull), and a man (Campbell) who is so present-day American and corny that you have to love it. It has been compared to previous series of the same type (Xena, Hercules) but is superior in many ways, because it doesn't assume too much about itself. Both those shows, however campy and silly they may have been, always had some sort of moral undertone. This show is just silly, goofy and a wonderful insult to every nationality represented in it. You have to love it. Verne Troyer plays Napoleon. The second you see him, nobody in their right mind could possibly have anything negative to say about the anachronistic premise of this show.It's wonderful, engaging and short enough not to get too much. Perfect for a Sunday afternoon, when all you want to do is sit back and be entertained. It's not Brisco County Jr., but fun to watch nonetheless. It's slapstick humour, bad (and I do mean baaaad) puns and overacting extraordinaire. Reminds me a bit of the old Batman from the '60s. Which is nothing but a compliment.

JACK OF ALL TRADES is mostly fun and spectacle, in the twenty minutes of each episode we have great slapstick as only Bruce Campbell can do, great swordfights, really bad ( but funny, often politically incorrect ) one-liners, talking parrots, jokes about the french and to summarize it, it can be very immature. But good executed. So a whole lot of fun. It's comparable to Brisco County in the fact that modern inventions are often used as deus ex machina, but it is not as emotionally. The whole setting reminds more of the Wild,Wild West Movie than of Brisco. The guests are great fun, for instance Verne Troyer as Napoleon goes where Mini-me of Austin Powers not even dared to.Watch it for the fun of it.

i am a big fan of Jack Of All Trades i watch it every single week yeah the show is silly but that is the best part about it the opening credits are great, when you have Robert Tapert Sam Raimi and the great Bruce Campbell you can't go wrong at all and then there is the very sexy Angela Dotchin as Emilia once again you can't go wrong. if you're a fan of one of the greatest directors of our time Sam Raimi and one of the greatest actors of our time Bruce Campbell you will enjoy this show for sure

Oh man, was I disappointed. I'm a huge Bruce Campbell fan and was thoroughly looking forward to "Jack of All Trades" but was so upset after the first episode. What are Sam and Robert doing? Xena and Hercules were clever shows, they had adventure, drama and then subtle humor thrown in. The humor in each of them made the series wonderful. Unfortunately, it seems as if they're trying too hard to make "Jack" all humor and no drama, hence, has no substance. The humor is so childish, that I found myself bored. Besides that, most (90%) of Bruce's lines consist of cliches and one-liners that make him out to be a dim-witted horny-boy.This is a very poor series with no substance, one plot (get Jack in bed with Emma) and very, VERY poor script writing for Bruce who is way too talented for this low-brow series. Bruce, you deserve better. Sam and Robert, you should be ashamed of yourselves for thinking up this junk.