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Summary: I've never met anyone who didn't quote this film.
Review: I will refrain from actually reviewing this film, because if you aren't familiar with it... where have you been? Here are my thoughts on the DVD release...The documentaries aren't done in the style you might expect, but instead feature things like cast members walking about meadows, pointing, and reminiscing about "that happened there" and "Graham couldn't remember this here" and such. Very enlightening, but a tad long. For a better Python doc, check out "Life of Python" on DVD.
Other features include a very funny animated LEGO short, sing-alongs, and my personal favorite: The subtitles and audio tracks. There is a special section of the film you can watch dubbed in Japanese then re-translated into English for subtitles. There are subtitles from Henry IV Pt II for people who don't enjoy the film. There is a shouting track for the hearing impaired. Then, there are commentary tracks where you can hear some Pythons passive-aggressively "discussing" differences during the filming. A great film, a great DVD.
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Summary: This is how it should be done.
Review: The picture quality is sharp and in excellent color. There are several tracks of commentary. The sound is as clear and impressive as it can be. The special features are outrageous, sometimes as funny as the film itself. There is a contemperary documentary on the film, trailers, a look back at the locations of the film, new spoofs, and some rather odd features, such as a bit of Japanese language footage and a version of "Knights of the Round Table" in - Lego? This dvd set is crammed to the gills with bonus goodies, but the core material of the dvd, that is, the movie, is itself excellently tranferred and done with obvious care and concern. This may be heartily recommended to anybody who enjoys Monty Python, and is also recommended as an upgrade from the old dvd version.
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Summary: Make sure you have plenty of room to fall on the floor -
Review: I first saw this movie by accident. It was one of those free cable weekends they had back when and I just happened to turn my TV on right after the opening credits. So I didn't know what it was, I just heard horses approaching through the fog. I knew something was a-wry when the horses didn't show up but some guy banging coconuts together behind a fop dressed as a king. By the time Michael Palin and his "peasant wife" cut him down and assured him that they didn't vote for him, I was captured, enraptured and rolling with laughter. A Monty Python masterpiece, one of the funniest films ever made.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: This film was my introduction to Monty Python. When I was a boy, the local PBS station aired it frequently. I was hooked instantly and began watching the television series as well. The Pythons pioneered a delightfully absurd brand of comedy that has been imitated but never equaled. I actually enjoy some of their later films more (particularly "The Meaning of Life"), but this skewering of the Arthurian legend remains one of my all-time favorite comedies.
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Summary: Glorious insanity!
Review: The greatest, funniest, stupidest, most brilliant movie in the world. (Yes, it is both the stupidest and the most brilliant. Watch it and you'll see what I mean.) Every time i see it I find abnother instance with a woman smacking a cat against the wall... this movie is full of subtle things that you don't really catch until you've seen it multiple times. However, anyone with any sense of humor at all will have no problem seeing it multiple times (except my mom, b/c she's heard it all the way through from me and my dad and our incessant QUOTING). It is also the most quotable movie of all time, with lines like "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries" and "What are you going to do, bleed on me?" and "Wot, the curtains?" and many others. To anyone who dares dislike this movie--"NI!"
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Summary: 5 stars for the movie--1 star for the DVD
Review: This is an excellent movie, but the DVD edition is awful. There are numerous defects in the DVD. The worst problem is that subtitles appear even when they are turned off. I know that there are supposed to be subtitles during the credits as a joke--but I'm talking about ALL THROUGH THE FILM!! The company that released this movie is doing nothing to correct this problem--so steer clear. I returned my copy and bought the older edition of the DVD on Ebay--It is a great movie when subtitles aren't popping up every few seconds! (this problem doesn't occur on all DVD players-but it does show up on most including almost all SONY players).
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Summary: The greatest movie of all time
Review: This movie is sure to make u laugh, giggle, and cry because u are laughing so hard. I own this dvd and i watch the movie every day if i have time too. This movie is by far the funniest movie i have ever seen. Never have i seen a movie that I can watch over and over and laugh harder every time I watch. From the black Knight(tis but a scratch) to the french folk(i will fart in your general direction) this movie is sure to make you laugh. There are witches and enchanters named tim and every scene is pee your pants type funny. "a witch a witch we found a witch, burn her, burn her""how do u know she is a witch""she looks like one""there are ways of telling if she is a witch""tell us""what do we do with witches""burn them burn them"" what else do we burn""more witches(pause"wood""very good""so why do witches burn""there made of wood""build a brige out of her""ah but can we not also build bridges out of stone""oh right""does wood sink or float in water""it floats, throw her into the pond""no no""what else floats""rain, apples, very small rocks, cherries, churches...""no no""a duck""exactly""so if she weighs the same as a duck,she is made of wood""and there fore""a witch, a witch"...........
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Summary: petes review of monte python
Review: monte python was great.there is non stop laughing.It is absolutely rollicking.there will only be one second when you're not laughing................. at the credits when the movie is over.it is also a spoof of all the med-evil movies.i loved it and trust me you will too.
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Summary: Great movie, Bad Transfer
Review: This transfer is from an extremely dark print of the movie. Many of the visual details are lost in the muck. Avoid this version, buy the "Special Edition" for the same price. The image is better, and the extra features are great.
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Summary: Hours of bemusement
Review: M.P. & The Holy Grail is a very inventive low-budget comedy, shot on location in Scotland. To compensate for a lack of horses and/or equestrian ability, the knights skip and hop along to a backbeat of clapping coconut shells. In their search for the Grail they encounter strange & terrible creatures, odd Frenchmen ensconced in Scottish castles, some pretty girls, British "bobbies," an avaricious landowner, several knights of obscure purposes and a warlock named Tim. The film is a series of isolated "sketches" loosely strung together with animated sequences or simple captions. As is true for many great comedies, there is no proper ending to this film, dramatically speaking. The Life of Brian is a step forward for Monty Python in that respect. But Holy Grail has some of the most ridiculously funny hair-splitting logic serving as "dialogue," and its slightly daft intellectual atmosphere is unique even among Python's other works. My DVD does not flash English subtitles after I've switched them off, but let the buyer beware; maybe some initial pressings were defective. Certainly there are Swedish subtitles beneath the opening credits, but they're part of the original negative -- not to be turned off. Whatever the case, there are hours of "extras" and 2 separate "commentaries" to play during the film, and I'm very happy with the Special Edition. You get two discs for the price of one, more or less, and the "extras" really are worth delving into.
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