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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Ni Ni! ni!...you gotta love this movie!
Review: Hilariously funny and unpredictable! You have to see it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best movie ever, period
Review: This movie is the craziest thing I have ever seen in my life and I absolutly LOVED it! Knights, monsters and unladen swallows what else can you ask for? Mind you this movie is for only those who have a weird sence of humor and not for anybody who is looking for a historical documentary of King Arthur. If the movie is in the comedy section of Blockbuster I'm guessing that isn't HISTORICLY ACCURATE!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Funniest movie ever!
Review: Even the credits are funny. You can't go wrong.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A hillarious classic
Review: Monty Python and The Search for The Holy Grail is a classic. It is very very hillarious. It is about King Arthur and his knight in search for The Grail. They all go seperate ways making for an exciting journey with wacky people and places. This movie is one of teh best comedies ever and i think you should buy it right now.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Absolutely Brillant!!! Great fun!!
Review: This is a true comedy masterpiece. The boys from Britain are back with an amazing and hilarious quest. Check you pulse if you haven't seen this movie yet.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the funniest movies ever made
Review: The grand opus of Monty Python, a goofy gang of guys who invented the most skewed comedy routines in the world. Rather than a series of individual spoofs, this movie is a long spoof based on Arthurian legend; specifically, the legend of the Holy Grail. Somehow, these six guys not only produced a low-budget movie, but cast themselves in multiple (many multiple) roles throughout it and still maintained a hilarious result!

Rather than a real story, this is a series of vignettes concerning the long-suffering King Arthur and his loyal knights of the Round Table ("We eat ham and jam and Spam-a-lot!") Among them are:

*The encounter with the Communist peasants in their autonamous collective ("HELP! HELP! I'M BEING REPRESSED!")

*The Tale of Sir Robin, the cowardly knight with a chicken on his shield.

*The king's encounter with the loony black knight, in which a ridiculous series of blood-spurtings will have you guffawing. ("You've got no arms left!" "Yes I have!" "LOOK!" "It's just a flesh wound.")

*Sir Lancelot receives a desperate note from a castle, but is the person sending it what he expects?

*The French attack.... verbally. ("Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!")

*Sir Galahad is waylaid in the temptation-laden Castle of the Maidens (interestingly enough, in traditional legends Sir Galahad did go to the Castle of the Maidens, though in very different circumstances *leer*)

*The Keepers of the Sacred Word, the Knights Who Say "NI!"

*The rabbit of death, Tim the Enchanter, and so much more.

The sheer off-the-wallness is what sells this movie, and Monty Python was in rare form. Graham Chapman's primary role is King Arthur, who seems to be the most competant of the bunch but is still pretty goofy. John Cleese of "Fish" and "Fawlty Towers" fame stars as Sir Lancelot/Tim the Wizard/The Rude Frenchman, and is amazing in each role. Eric Idle plays lily-livered Sir Robin/Roger the Shrubber (don't ask)/Brother Maynard. Terry Gilliam is lower-key as Sir Gawain/Patsy; Terry Jones is also pretty low key as Sir Bedivere/Prince Herbert. Michael Palin has a hilarious series of roles including the King os Swamp Castle/Sir Galahad/Leader of the Knights Who Say Ni.

Shoring up the cast is Cleese's now-ex-wife Connie Booth as The Witch, John Young as the Historian/Dead Body, Neil Innes as the annoying Minstrel/Page Killed by Rabbit.

Perhaps the funniest move in this movie was mocking the budget limitations, with the coconut shells and so forth. The special effects are deliberately cheapened to make them sillier, such as the sprays of rather gloppy gore when someone is wounded. The script is typically hilarious, full of stupid comments and straight-faced jokes.

Frankly, it's hard to think of Camelot now without rhyming it with "I have to push the PRAM-A-LOT" and the line of tap-dancing knights. This movie is lodged in the American brain, and it ain't budging soon...

A small note: You may want to check out the Veggie Tales ep "Josh and the Big Wall," in which a respectful (yet kooky!) homage is paid to this film!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: We are now the Knights who say........
Review: I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS MOVIE! I think it is a great comedy/family film! It's most definately a classic. I would say JUST BUY THE MOVIE!!!! It's WONDERFUL! "1,2,5" ("3 sir.") "3"

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Consider it for your DVD collection.
Review: British humor, dry but very good.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: this movie was the greatest in...ahhhhhh
Review: this movie was splendid indeed.i thought it was superb.NI NI NI

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Classic film, average DVD
Review: Yes, this is, without a doubt, one of the funniest films ever made. Python's classic humor has highly influenced untold numbers of comedians (including the original SNL cast) and several generations of movie fans who like their humor a bit more witty than most of what passes for comedy in Hollywood these days.

Why I did not give this DVD 5 stars is the lack of extra features. There is a director's commentary out there--I heard it years ago on Comedy Central!

This sad fact aside, the color has been brilliantly restored to the print, which is usually washed out. The sound is nicely preserved as well.

When they get around to releasing a DVD worthy of this fine film, I will be glad to give it as many stars as possible.


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