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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Collector's Edition Boxed Set)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Collector's Edition Boxed Set)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: FUNNY!!FUNNY!!FUNNY!!FUNNY!!
Review: I don't know if they spent all this time remastering this movie or if I always saw it on overused videotapes. The pictures are clear and the colors are brillant. The sound is crisp. Nothing like I remember the movie.

The extras are almost worth the price of admission alone. There is a lot of new and old material. The best being the sing alongs, the lego scenes, and the Japanese version. There is also the standard commentary and interviews stuff if that interests you.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Funny and worth seeing
Review: This film veers between inspired lunacy and stupid silliness without seeming to know the difference. But say what you will, the movie is never boring.

I love the scene with the young prince and his incompetent palace guards and the tale of "courageous" Sir Robin and his minstrals. The animation is very well done, like illuminated medieval manuscripts come to life.

Note: The DVD I am reviewing does not contain many extras -- just some trailers for other films.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best Movie funded by Led Zeppelin (and others)
Review: As the details of this edition are given above and in other reviews, I'll be brief.

This edition is the equivalent of a "Criterion" collection release. If you prefered the Criterion "Life of Brian" or "Time Bandits" over the standard studio releases, then you're interested in more than just the film itself, and you definitely would appreciate all the extras that this release gives.

My favorite "extra" is the documentary of Terry Jones and Michael Palin, revisiting all the sites where the movie was filmed (just 1 castle for many; an old copper mine; the Castle Aaarrrgg which they never got to enter during the shooting).

As for technical difficulties, I occasionally had problems with the "white rabbit" locking the playback, but that was all. Everything else worked as advertised.

This is the definitive edition for this movie. Don't bother with the other.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A movie you can't say 'Ni" to.
Review: This new DVD of Monty Python & The Holy Grail is excellent. Aside from the movie itself, there's excellent audio commentary by all the surviving Pythons. The second disc really makes this new version superior to the previous DVD. The on-location documentary is good, but even better is the "Quest For the Holy Grail Locations" with Palin & Jones. It's remarkable how much footage was shot in a single castle (it's only a model...). My only disappointment was that the Japanese dub is only two short scenes. It's very funny to see the dialogue reworked, and I wish they'd showed the whole film with the dubbing. No matter, the rest is excellent, and with a Lego rendition of "Knights Of The Round Table" into the bargain, it's a must have for all silly persons.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Defective DVD
Review: This disc can experience the following problem: Captioning that appears on screen regardless of what you select in the subtitles option. This disc has RCE (Regional Coding Enhancement) which may be the culprit. There is a site that addresses the RCE issue but the corrections shown there do not fix this problem. This problem does not happen with all DVD players so it's a crap shoot as to whether or not it will play properly for you. I suggest you just buy TSNKE (Thou Shalt Not Kill Except) on DVD instead. (...)you can send the insert cover to the director and he will sign it for you!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A DONKEY, A DONKEY MY KINGDOM FOR A DONKEY
Review: This movie starts with the King Arther and Patsy coming down a beaten trail coming out of the woods and Arthur is looking for knights to be in his round table to find sir lancelot,sir galahad, sir not so atractive in this movie , and ect....

Over all this movie is halariously funny and a very funny movie like the holy hand granade and killer rabit...

in this review i didn't want to give away the funny parts so you have to watch to see them...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A MUST HAVE!!
Review: This is the first DVD I bought after getting a DVD player, even though I already had it on video. Enough said.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Monty Python Kicks (...)!!!
Review: This Movie is a classic, with characters such as Brave Sir Robin, and Everyone's Favorite, the Black Knight. The Only reason it got 4 stars is because it has a really weak ending.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A classic movie and classic DVD
Review: Truth be told, I HATE when people call things "classic" because it's usually a word used to describe many things that don't deserve such a designation. To call somehting classic, it has to have been absorbed so completely into society that it's essentially common knowledge. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is such a thing. If one doubts this, just go up to practically anyone and say "I am Arthur, King of the Britons" and I'll bet you 9 out of 10 will reply in falsetto female voice "I didn't know we had a king!" Thus is the phenomenon that is Holy Grail. This special edition delivers a great deal of additional fun as well, including a facinating tour of Holy Grail shooting locations from Michael Palin and Terry Jones, and the entire script can be superimposed as you watch(yeah, like we all don't know the lines already) Bottom line: GET THIS DVD, and BRING ME SOME SHRUBBERIES!!!!!! Or else...(you know!)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Monty Python: need I say more?
Review: This is overall a very hilarious video, however, that could depend on your sense of humor. If you can't stand anything beyond normal, you will think this movie is just plain strange. For everyone else, though, this is a collection of garunteed laughs for ninety minutes in a in a box. From the the knights who say "Nee" to the perserverent black knight, this essentialy a collection of short skits wound together with a story, which, really, is irelivant to the movie. Recomended to anyone over 13.


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