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Summary: Python Rules, OK?
Review: Sure there are a few dull sketches, but what a collection of clever, eccentric, irreverent humour!
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Summary: Approved by the Bruces, the Gumbys, etc.
Review: BUY THIS DVD SET! Convince relatives, friends, significant others, etc. to buy it for you. Pillage, plunder...do whatever you need to do to get your paws on this phenomenal collection of zany antics from some middle-class guys who like to dress in women's clothing.I started out as a raving "Holy Grail" fan, so I had to learn more about these quirky British comedians. My boyfriend got this set for me as a gift, and it is, hands down, the oddest thing I've ever watched. Cows mooing in German? A woman who seduces and covertly traps milkmen in her house? 100 yards for people with no sense of direction, marathon for incontinents??? It is SO unusual...unlike anything else. Monty Python's Flying Circus is CERTAINLY its own television genre. A&E definitely made sure that each episode was transferred to DVD in high quality, and there are nifty post-viewing quizzes included on each DVD (just to make sure you were paying attention!) The DVD cases and box set are attractively packaged, making this a must-buy! Even if you've only seen one Monty Python movie. Even if you've only heard of Monty Python. Even if you haven't. Make a wise investment and purchase this set! You will own hours of hilarity and amusement as only these boys can give it to you!
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Summary: GREAT NEWS FOR EUROPEAN PTHYONITES
Review: If you are annoyed that there is no region 2 european release of the complete Monty Python, then I have some good news. The American boxed set is compatible with region 2 players.
I ordered the boxed set with a view to having my player adjusted to multi region so you can imagine my delight when my player accepted the discs.
Don't delay and order the set now!!
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Summary: When are we getting this in Britain?
Review: Good old BBC - you can trust them to mess anything up. I haven't seen this (yet) because we can only get "the best of" in Britain - not the "complete works"! Rather like the stupid situation whereby we in Britain can have the complete first series of "The West Wing" on DVD (a brilliant US product, which is not yet available on DVD in the USA), this Monty Python complete set is available in the US but not to us Brits. Hope we do finally get it or we'll have to finally fork out for an all-region DVD player and order it from amazon.com.
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Summary: Nitpicky, aren't we?
Review: Some people have complained that this set isn't quite all there. I say PHHHHFT! We're really lucky to have any of this stuff at all, considering the way Auntie Beeb treated it's old gold. What do you do in a case like this? You get all the BBC execs you can in one room, and... You release the tiger! It was absolutely scandalous! One needs to only look at how they had to rescue most of Doctor WHO (another one of my all time BBC favorites) from the brink of oblivion by going out of country and even to PRIVATE collectors to save that show's legacy for future generations. The BBC's handling of thier own programming nonwithstanding, it is exactly companies like A and E, Tv Ontario, and PBS, who had the infinate wisdom to save these tapes whilst the BBC was destrying it's own masters right and left ,just for the sake of conserving on videotape , is exactly why shows like Monty Python survives for future generations. We should be praising them to the skies for saving 99.9999 percent of Python, than beating them over the head with a dead parrot for losing maybe a minute or so of total footage. NI!
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Summary: Oh bloody he*-
Review: I see that most of the rewievs complain about one or two sketches are missing and one word getting censored..My comment? So friggin' what? This only matters for those phreaks who has memorized the entire series, mortals shouldnt be bothered, because there are litteraly thousands of sketches left in here, days of top-notch-alas-low-tech entertainment for everyone, kultclassics such as hells grannies, dead parrot and the killer joke. You also get detailed information on how to defend yourself against fresh fruit, some rather obscure religious beliefs, how to make "crunchy frog" and other completely different rareties. This is, per date, the ultimate collection on the "new" digital format known as DVD, and believe me - There is no reason to wait for a "new" version containing a couple of extra german sketches, once disc 14 has spinned out of your player you are destined to reopen the first disc again! My new xmaswish has actually become a 14disk dvd-changer. The imagequality is good (As in "1970-good", not "2002-good") and the soundtrack makes full use of any monosystem tvset, with voices that can never be performed by anyone else than the six loonies performing it. The DVD menues and layout is good+. Uniform and easy to use, some of the extras are exerpts from sketches on other disks, wich is rather lame, but shouldnt bother anyone. Three shows per disk, which means that you have to get your lazy bum out of the couch every other hour, but its actually worth it. One final remark though, the specs states that you can only enjoy this on sone 1 players, and thats bogus, there are no sonerestriction on these disks. In other words, if you are, like me, a european guy with european equipment you can safely buy this compilation. So for the conclusion (Thats right, reading everything above was a complete waste of time). What are you waiting for? If you have the money, buy it now (If you dont, I recomend going out stealing some right away!) you wont regret it. If my house gets on fire I will run into the livingroom, grab this collection, and hope the kids finds their own way out.
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Summary: It's...
Review: TO THE MONTY PYTHON FAN:
No Monty Python fan (young or old) is to be without this dvd set! Enjoy every episode of the hillarious Flying Circus series. If you're a Monty Python fan, then there's no need explaining the quirky humour of these Comedy Legends!!! BUY THIS NOW!! You won't regret it! All I have to say to you is: Lemon Curry? TO THE NON-MONTY PYTHON FAN:
I've come to admit (as hard as it was) that not everyone has the pythonesque sense of humour... and if you don't, then you're unlikely to enjoy these dvds. However, if you have that outragously random, funny, wacky, and just plain old silly sense of humour - then these could be for you. For those of you who don't know, the episodes consist of funny sketches (skits) that are often linked together by some wacky animations. Very Funny Stuff! Out of the hundreds of Sketches, some classics are:
The Fish Slapping Dance
The Ministry of Silly Walks
The Funniest Joke In The World (Which, when people read it, they die laughing)
The Spanish Inquisition (that's quite disfunctional)
The Dead Parrot Sketch
Nudge Nudge
Buying An Ant and one of my favourites, The Undertakers...
...A man walks into the Undertakers and tells the Undertaker that his mother had just died, and asked them what to do. The Undertaker replied "Now there's three things we can do with your mum. We can bury her, burn her, or dump her." "Dump her??" said the shocked customer. "Yeah, dump her in the Thames." "What?" "Oh, did you like her??" So the Undertaker decides that it's best not to dump her. The sketch continues with the Undertaker giving a full description of what happens when the body's burned/buried: "Well they're both nasty. If we burn her, she gets stuffed in the flames, crackle, crackle, crackle, which is a bit of a shock if she's not quite dead. But quick. And then you get a box of ashes, which you can pretend are hers. Or, if you don't wanna fry her, you can bury her. And then she'll get eaten up by maggots and weevils, nibble, nibble, nibble, which isn't so hot if, as I said, she's not quite dead." The customer replies that he is definately sure that his mother is dead, so the Undertaker takes a look at her (she's in a sack) and realises that they've got "An eater". It ends with the punchline that if the customer felt guilty after eating her, they'd dig a grave so he could throw up in it! If you weren't sure by what I meant with outragous comedy, that should help! I am a big Monty Python Fan, and these dvds are FANTASTIC!!!
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Summary: I have a theory, which is mine
Review: Indispensable for all those who are fascinated by the unique genius of this iconoclastic comedy troupe. People who do not care for British humour, intellectual humour, surrealism, or who are easily offended ought to stay away! Very interesting to watch the series in order and see the developments/deteriorations along the way . . . particularly
interesting and disturbing to see Graham Chapman in the first series as a brilliantly funny and incredibly beautiful 28-year old, progressing through to the fourth series, when he is hardly given any speaking lines because he can't be trusted to learn them, and his glassy-eyed alcohol-swollen face is clearly that of a man drinking himself to death. I was so perturbed by this that I had to watch "Life of Brian" afterward, to see him back in shape after getting sober. No question that there's some material in here that falls flat; but when the Python writing hits what I think of as "the sweet spot", it is so incandescently delightful and somehow wonderfully liberating. A really brilliant Python sketch, like
"Blackmail", "Piranha Brothers", or the deceptively simple "Man who speaks in anagrams", goes beyond being funny and achieves a remarkable tribute to the ability of the human mind to contain and tame even the most horrible things in the world by laughing at them. The uninitiated might well say, "Where's the pleasure in that?", but I have watched certain of these sketches twenty or thirty times without tiring of them.
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Summary: Almost Complete Monty Python
Review: Contrary to what the title of this set suggests, this is not the complete Monty Python's Flying Circus. One cut has been made: in episode 38 the opening sketch "Party Political Broadcast (Choreographed)" and the closing trailers "Dad's Doctor" and "Dad's Pooves" have been cut... TWO cuts have been made: in episode 38 the opening sketch "Party Political Broadcast (Choreographed)" and the closing trailers "Dad's Doctor" and "Dad's Pooves" have been cut, as well as a line in episode 33's "Biggles Dictates A Letter"... THREE cuts have been made... Actually more than three.
On the plus side, some of the DVDs contain sketches from the rarely seen German episodes as bonus material, so I give this set three sta.., er, FOUR stars...
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Summary: the Gods of Ensemble Comedy
Review: It's Monty Python, what more needs to be said?
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