Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Summary: Ni! Ni!
Review: For anyone not convinced there's a fine line between comedic genius and outright insanity, I recommend MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL. The Python troupe takes the legend of King Arthur and mutates it into a hilarious kaleidescope of off-the-deep-end slapstick and parody. Some of the humor is just plain silly (Black Knight: "Come on and fight, you coward!" Arthur: "But I've just cut your leg off!" Black Knight (pauses): "It's only a flesh wound."), and we know it's silly, yet the viewer is still laughing uncontrollably. Python can pull off looney tunes comedy like Olivier reciting Shakespeare; it's the reason the group enjoyed phenomenal success in the Seventies.

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin move in and out of this film in a headspinning variety of roles. From tapdancing knights to a killer rabbit to rude Frenchmen throwing livestock from the top of a castle, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL is wacky, satisfying comic bliss. By far the best of all the Python films.

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Summary: And now for something compleatly different...
Review: Like myself, this review will be short and simple...

Monty Python, famous Brittish comedy troop whoose surreal and outragous sense of humour earned them a place in the Hall Of Hillarity, decide, with a barrel full of jokes and a matchbox full of money to make a movie.

This is the result, it's one of their best and my favourite, and I'm actually Brittish so I know what I'm talking about.

The DVD's extras are good; the commentaries being the highlight. Sound and picture quality too, for an old film, look superb.

Click that add to shopping cart button now otherwise I will come round to your house and say 'Nee' at you rather loudly.

Like myself, this review has been a perfect example of the epitamy of it's kind and will live on as a legend in it's own time, thank you.

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Summary: HILLARIOUSSSSSSSSSSS
Review: THIS IS SO AMAZINGLY FUNNY FROM THE BLACK KNIGHT SKIT TO THE HOLY HAND GREANADE AND THE KNIGHTS WHO SaY NEE THIS IS THE FUNNIESt MOVIE ARE OUND GET IT TODAY IF YOU APPRECIATE COMEDY

note if you don't understand british comedy this may seem stupid

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Summary: Still hilarious!
Review: I wasn't sure I'd like "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" after all these years, but as soon as I popped in the videotype, I remembered exactly why I once found this film so funny. The humor is incredibly irreverent and, after all these years, iconic. Who can forget the argument about sparrows carrying coconuts to England, or the killer rabbit, or the serenade to Sir Robin? The humor ranges from satire to potty jokes, from dark humor to downright silliness. As with all Monty Python movies, the scenes hang loosely together, and some seem included merely because the writers came up with a joke over a few pints and couldn't bear to exclude it.

The film epitomizes Monty Python and the craziness of the British comedy group popular during the 1970's. If you saw this years ago, you'll be surprised how funny it still is. And if you've NEVER seen it, you should treat yourself, especially since lines from it continue to crop up in ordinary conversation.

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Summary: A Comedy Classic.
Review: This is a lgend among classics. The main character, Arthur, assembles his lunatic group of knights to find the Holy Grail. They fight through communists, crazed knights, monsterous fuzzy bunnies, and weddings.

Arthur is the only character that's close to being sane. There is crude but wonderful humour. This will have you rolling on the floor. Heaven, this is hard to describe!

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Summary: Those responsible have been sacked.
Review: Let me tell you this: the first time I watched this film, I don't think I laughed at it once. It seemed distant to me, a strange film that was sort of comical-looking, but it just plain didn't click with me. A few days later, I told someone I'd seen it, and then, for some reason, in description of it, it became utterly hilarious. And that's the way Monty Python seems to work. If you're not already initiated to the Monty Python style of humor, just go talk to someone who loves it, and suddenly you'll find yourself laughing like you've never laughed before. It's like the film just may be so brilliant that you need a little help to get you to realize that there's a joke, even with it glaring you directly in the eyes. The Python troupe, on top of that, plays it like they're in a period piece for most of the time -- throughout the film I don't believe a single one of them cracks more than the smallest smile. Of course, when I saw the film again, I was in stitches, and I am forever a Python fan. And while one of the most brilliant jokes I've ever seen doesn't appear in this film (it's in Monty Python's Meaning of Life, and it involved an animated leaf), there's definitely more than enough gut-busting Pythonesque madness here to sate your laughter or you might want to check for a pulse -- you may think you're going for a walk, but you're not fooling anyone.

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Summary: If you don't get it, then don't get it...
Review: BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! AAAHHAAAHAAAA HAAAA!! HEEEHEEE HEEEHEEE!

(If you've never experiened an unbridled reaction of this kind to absurd comedy, brilliant slapstick, or general silliness, then you will never like this movie. Your life will be devoid of humor ever after and will no longer have any meaning. Move along.)

If you have, and delight in the antics of the Pythons, you will not be disappointed. It's a wonderfully restored, remastered, re-whatevered DVD. I loved to hear the actors and directors still genuinely laughing -- after all these years -- on the commentary tracks. This movie stands the test of time as a comedic masterpiece.

And the extras are outstanding -- down to the nostalgic documentary with Terry Jones and Michael Palin as they retrace their steps to the Scottish locations where they made film history 30 years ago.

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Summary: Hilarious!!!
Review: Monty Python's best! I couldn't stop laughing from beginning to end. I'd have to say the Knights Who Say Ni was the funniest part, and has succeeded in enternally motivating Python fans worldwide to pepper every social gathering with endless rounds of, "Ni! Ni! Ni!" Other scenes are frightfully clever in their humor, and I had to watch the movie more than once to catch every joke. For those who like slapstick comedy like "Airplane" or "The Naked Gun", you'll LOVE this one.

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Summary: Hillarious- Is that and African or European Swallow?
Review: This has to be one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. The comedy is not for everyone and if you are going to buy it you should be familiar with British comedy. If you aren't familiar I would recommend renting it first. Basically the whole movie is a pun on King Arthur and his search for the Holy Grail.

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Summary: Great Movie, Great Print
Review: The film has never looked better. It looks much sharper and more like a proper film than it did on old VHS issues and television broadcasts.

For those not familiar with this classic film, it is a wildly imaginative, hilarious satire on the nature of chivalry and the dark ages. Few films have been as brilliantly written as this and the troupe's "Life of Brian". Actually, no films. (That's a Monty Python reference right there). It's not everyone's cup of tea; religion is put in its place, and there is bloodshed and sexual material present.

The extras are very nice, especially the BBC "Film Night" footage and a new segment with Palin and Jones revisiting the castle site on which the movie was filmed. The extra audio track with Cleese, Palin, and Idle is amusing and interesting, definitely something that fans will want to hear. The audio track with the two directors (Gilliam and Jones) predictably drags a bit by comparison.