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Summary: A little pricey, but hey, it's Monty Python
Review: Picture and sound quality shouldn't be the reason you are buying this set. The number of episodes per disc (3) is a bit on the lean side as well. But, if you are a python fan, these sets finally offer a way for the fans to have all the tv episodes in a medium that will not deteriorate over time. I'm not going to trifle with reviewing the comedy of Monty Python, because if you consider buying this dvd you should already know what they are about. 4 stars because of the sound/video and small number of episodes per disc.
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Summary: Python Fans have no choice....BUY THIS SET!!!
Review: Thank you A&E for the crystal clear picture and crisp sound remastering of these Flying Circus episodes. The lads have never looked or sounded so clear. Nicely animated menus with some clever trivia and great Hollywood Bowl clips. I have to say, however, the supplements tend to repeat over the discs, and the grouping of skits around themes is a bit weak. But, thats just the icing on the cake were talking about. The episodes themselves are more than worth the value! Cant wait for the "Fish Slapping Dance" and "Salad Days"
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Summary: Python Fans Rejoice!
Review: Thanks to A&E, hard-core fans can now collect the whole four series of Monty Python's Flying Circus. No more worrying about wearing out the tape or frantically searching for the few episodes that are missing in your collection (like mine). The shows on the disc are chrisp and clear like they were just recorded. The menus are nicely animated (Python-style, of course) and the shows are split up into the famous sketches you know and memorized. A&E should be commaned for bringing the shows onto DVD with great care.
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Summary: The Best Show Ever
Review: The first half of the first season of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" has some of the best Python episodes ever. I especially liked Episode 3 ("How to Recognize Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away") and Episode 4 ("Owl Stretching Time"). While not quite as polished as some of the later episodes, it was all equally funny.
The DVD set looks slightly better than the videos released in 1989 by Paramount. The filmed, location sequences look pretty grainy, but that's how they've always looked. With every episode, there is an opprotunity to jump straight to the sketches, or to read a tidbit.
On the extras front, there's a clip from "Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl," scenes from other TV episodes, biographies, Pythonisms, a weblink, trivia games, and the always excellent Gilliamnations art gallery.
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Summary: Prime Python...
Review: These first six shows are the true bedrock of Python. Although we get the biggies in the later half of series one (like Parrot, Lumberjack and Albatross) these six have some of Python's finest pieces. Highlights include the totally surreal French Lecture on sheep by Cleese and Palin, Chapman's dominating film producer Irving C. Saltzberg (one of Chapman's finest roles), the masterful spiraling comedy of the Undercover Dentists (again, superb performance skills from Chapman), classy work from Eric Idle as a Red Indian trotting out his theatre experience, and John Cleese clearly relishing the chance to humiliate a certain Sir Edward "Eddie-Baby" Ross. And of course, nothing can top the immortal Nudge Nudge sketch, the pinnacle of Idle's acting and writing skills. Don't stop to think! Get it!
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Summary: This is a really funny show
Review: This movie is so funny at some parts I fell out of the couch and that does not happen to much. Who wouldn't want a movie funny like this one. So, it is a little on the expensive side you have to pay for good comedy. The only show that I find more funny than this is "The Simpsons." Movie makers don't go for comedy as much as before because they don't sell well. That is why I like Monty Python, it is good comedy. BUY IT NOW.
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Summary: This is a really funny show
Review: To this day, Monty Python remains THE idol and source of inspiration to humourists all around. ?Monty Python's Flying Circus? made the group famous, and it is the best ever to come out, not only from Monty Python, not only from Britain... but humour in general!Highlights on this tape: ?The Funniest Joke In The World?, ?The Mouse Problem?, ?Children's Stories?, ?Restaurant Sketch?, ?Undressing In Public?, the generally superb Episode Five, and ?The Dull Life Of A City Stockbroker?. Own it!
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Summary: The Avangardists Of Modern Humour
Review: To this day, Monty Python remains THE idol and source of inspiration to humourists all around. »Monty Python's Flying Circus« made the group famous, and it is the best ever to come out, not only from Monty Python, not only from Britain... but humour in general! Highlights on this tape: »The Funniest Joke In The World«, »The Mouse Problem«, »Children's Stories«, »Restaurant Sketch«, »Undressing In Public«, the generally superb Episode Five, and »The Dull Life Of A City Stockbroker«. Own it!
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Summary: Monty Python on DVD.
Review: Well, they've gone and done it. They put Monty Python's Flying Circus on DVD! Well, what can I say? I am an afficianado of this silly group of English tricksters, and have been since I first saw them on PBS way back in the early 1970s. This product is a 2 DVD complete set of the entire first year of Monty Python's Flying Circus. For yourinvestment, you get such sketches as: "Sex and Violence", complete with "You Can't tell the difference between Whizzo butter and this dead Crab" sketch; "The Larch"; "The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker"; "Nudge Nudge" sketch; and many more very silly sketches. I am also fond of the "It's the Arts" program, wherein interviewers are alternately rude and kind to the guests, particularly Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson. Also included on the DVD are the weblinks to Pythonshop online, a "meet the chaps" biography section, a Pythonisms Glossary, and Art Gallery of Terry Gilliam, and a preview of upcoming episodes section. Episodes 1-6 are contained on this 2 set of DVDs. I like this format because its less bulky than the VHS set, and is a better value, with 3 episodes per DVD, as opposed to 2 for each VHS tape. While the first season of Python isn't my favorite, it still is worth the money for the serious Python fan.
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