Rating: 
Summary: "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
Review: From the moment you see King Arthur (Graham Chapman) and his trusty aide Patsy (Terry Gilliam) ride out of the fog at the beginning of Holy Grail (I won't spoil the joke, it's one of the best), you know it's going to be on of those films. By "those", of course, i mean films that are consistently funny throughout. And Grail is one of the most startingly original comedies of all time. It's hard to imagine that it was produced by a comedy group that merely a year before had put together a woefully unfunny final series of Monty Python's Flying Circus.
What makes Holy Grail so deliriously funny is the absolute anarchy of it all, the wide range of jokes, running and self contained. It has off the wall moments of nonsense that surely must have been dreamt up by the clinically insane. The Knights who say "Ni", the killer rabbit, the bridge of death, none have lost their power to split the sides of the viewer. Best are John Cleese's Black Knight and Michael Palin's repressed peasant: "Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"
Yes, it's extremely silly. But what makes Grail, and the later Monty Python's Life of Brian, stand the test of time more so than the TV series and the film Monty Python's Meaning of Life is that the jokes are so accessible. They are not obscure or pretentious, they are just plain funny.
What stops this from being a master piece is an all over the place narrative and a very, very disappointing ending, but these are small quibbles. The storyline may be flimsy, but the jokes that are hung on it are of a high calibre. The closest you can come to pure, unadulterated comedy.
Rating:
Summary: Yes, it's special and there are extras...
Review: ...Amazon is not listing them for some reason (which wouldn't be the first time they've screwed up).You will need to look on other DVD retailer websites to find out what's on this DVD set. From DVDPlanet.com's solicitation material for this DVD edition: "2-disc 21st Anniversary Edition includes 24 seconds of previously unseen footage and includes:
Two audio commentary tracks by directors Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones and John Cleese, Eric Idle and Michael Palin;
On-screen screenplay feature;
"Follow The Killer Rabbit" feature; Sing-alongs;
Making-of documentary;
"How To Use Your Coconuts" educational film;
1974 BBC documentary "On Location With The Pythons";
Production material;
Trailers;
Shakespeare's "Henry IV" subtitle option" Yahoo shopping lists these same features. Don't give up hope, folks. This isn't the same disappointing DVD that was released previously.
Rating:
Summary: Not So Fast...
Review: Please hold off on criticizing this re-issue by saying it has no extras...because it just isn't so. Amazon.com is just behind on updating their info on this soon to be excellent DVD. It has so many extras it will blow your mind. Announced to be a 2 disc set, it is supposed to include all things appreciated by true Monty Python Fans including: Commentaries by the Monty Python Troupe themselves, "Follow the Killer Rabbit" feature (reminds one of the Matrix feature in a way), Three mindless sing-a-longs, "How to use your coconuts" educational feature, and another feature which I can not exactly remember but it is something like instead of hearing the film when it is playing you are instead treated to a dramatic reading of some famous novel or something. Is this last one a bit peculiar, not to a true Python fan it isn't. So buy your copy now.
Rating: 
Summary: Slap on "Special Edition"
Review: Whats with film distbutors slapping on "Special Edtion" on DVDs nowadays when there is nothing really special about it? Not to say Holy Grail is still a KICK A**, truely special film, just this "edtion" has "special" slapped on the cover, with no visible content. Some commentary lifted from the LD would be conciderd genuinly special. Maybe even some outtakes or deleted scenes! If you already own this DVD, don't be suckered in by this so-called "Special Edition". If you don't have it GET IT IMMEADTALY!
Rating:
Summary: Trailer alone makes it worth it
Review: ... I love this movie. It's hilarious. "Once in a lifetime, there comes a motion picture which changes the entire history of motion pictures. One such film was Akira Kurosawa's 'The Seven Samurai.' Another was 'Ivan the Terrible.' Then come the more run-of-the-mill films like 'Herbie Rides Again,' 'La Notte' and 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.'" When I taped this movie, I was gladly surprised that the station not only broadcast a slightly longer version of the movie (+24 seconds - this is also the on the special edition), but also showed us the movie trailer beforehand. And that trailer is perhaps even funnier than the whole movie. I was deeply disappointed that it wasn't on the previous release, but now the world has a chance to see the most absurd and perhaps most successful way of promoting a movie ever. "Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Only five minutes from this restaurant."
Rating:
Summary: "I'm not dead yet!"
Review: If you don't know what my title line means, then watch the movie!! It is so helarious. It is a spoof on King Arthur and his knights. The movie is made in a British style in that it doesn't have many great effects or great acting, but it is the lack of these things that makes it so funny. This movie has been a favorite of mine for years and it never ceases to make me laugh. Watch it!
Rating:
Summary: Nice to see the reviewers saw the film . . . not
Review: Nevermind Maltin, who knows why anyone listens to him, but how could anyone say that the three-headed knights (sic) say "nee"? And the rabbit is never referred to as a "bunny". It would be nice if the reviewers here could at least pay attention. You think I'm being picky? What if Shannon in a review said "Rosebud" referred to Kane's ice skates?
Rating:
Summary: Nice to see the reviewers saw the film . . . not
Review: Nevermind Maltin, who knows why anyone listens to him, but how could anyone say that the three-headed knights (sic) say "nee"? And the rabbit is never referred to as a "bunny". It would be nice if the reviewers here could at least pay attention. You think I'm being picky? What if Shannon in a review said "Rosebud" referred to Kane's ice skates?
Anyway, what's the point of re-issuing the DVD if it (stop saying the word!) doesn't come with outakes, bloopers, interviews, screenplays, commentary tracks, etc.
Rating:
Summary: She Turned me into a Newt!
Review: I got better! NOT!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
ever since i first saw this move (( a month ago)) i quote it EVERY DAY!!
I'm driving my friends Absolutely bonkers!
Of course they've all seen it to and they quote right along with me but...
And on a final note
DEATH SHALL COME TO YOU...
with sharp pointy teeth!! final Note? WHAT AM I TALKING ABOUT? You stay 'ere and make sure 'e doesnt leave!
Can he come with us?
NO!! you just STAY 'ERE and make sure 'E doesnt leave!
him?
NO not him! MY SON!
oh because it'd be quite stupid if i had to guard a guard. ok..I've SAID TOO MUCH!!!!
Rating:
Summary: Monty Python and the Holy Grail-Special Edition
Review: The only thing special about this DVD is that it's a comedic masterpiece. Other than that, there are no commentaries, no making of's nothing. Unlike the version on Laserdisc that has so much more it is a farce to say that this edition is "special" in any way. Amazon lists this as not yet released but I bought this version about a year and a half ago. If movie companies, directors and distributors would wait a while and release just one version of the film without releasing second and third versions with different audio features and commentaries I'd be a little richer...
| 
