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Summary: Knights, quests, blood, rabbits and coconuts...
Review: My goodness. I grew up with Monty Python, and I've seen this movie probably one hundred times. Doubtless many of you have seen it more. Is this THE funniest movie ever made? I wouldn't waste one second arguing the contrary. Consider this - only two comedy "acts" are considered so seminal and influential that their names have entered into our descriptive lexicon: Chaplinesque and Pythonesque. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is arguably the finest and most accessible example of all things Pythonesque. Literary wit, scathing satire, religious irreverence, word-play, song and dance, political humor, slapstick, animation, a plethora of gore, men in drag, rabbits, coconuts and yelping cats - what else could anyone hope for in a movie? (OK, there is no gratuitous sex, but the Castle Anthrax maidens sure tried!) You do not have to be a Monty Python fan to love this movie. You will be once you've seen it. (And the many times thereafter.)
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Summary: Great movie, but what''s so special about the DVD?
Review: Holy Grail is one of the first DVD's I bought. It had no specials, so when I saw this I thought: Aha, they've released it again, but now with commentary, documentaries etc. I must buy it again (that's how good this movie is) for these extras.
But no, there are no extras as far as I can see. So I haven't bought it. Don't let this stop you: you will still be getting one heck of a movie.
Holy Grail with the extras they put on Life of Brian (also get this one while you're at it), would be worth 6 stars (as is Life of Brian). Robert
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Summary: Do not be spared from almost certain temptation
Review: This movie was, in fact, hilarious. Buy it; you won't regret it. There's not a whole lot to say, as most words are inadequate, but it is hilarious. And dude, it's spelled NEWT.
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Summary: I blow my nose at you!!!
Review: This is, by far, the funniest movie ever made. No question about it. ...Even if you're new to Python, and there's nothing wrong with that, this movie is probably the best one to get started on.("The Life of Brian" and "The Meaning of Life" are for extreme hardcore fans only. They aren't funny at all.) Every single skit in this movie is hilarious. I mean, this movie will redefine how you think about comedy movies. Every time you see a comedy from now
on, you will use this movie as the standard of comparison. John Cleese steals the show, playing roles ranging from the French taunter who launches farm animals from atop his castle, to the ever-quoted Black Knight(It's just a flesh wound!) I'm not going to list off every single skit, because it would ruin it for people who haven't seen it yet. Besides, you wouldn't know what I was talking about. If you haven't seen this movie, see it NOW. You will most likely enjoy it if you are a fan of British Comedy, or Mel Brooks movies such as "History of the World Part I" and "Young Frankenstein".
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Summary: A NUTE?????????????????
Review: Whenever I watch this masterpiece comedy I come as close as anyone can to pee and cry of laughter, I always cried, the first time i peed. This movie is so hilarious, I can't even tell you a scene that was the best, they all are classics.
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Summary: AT LAST...
Review: We now have everything Python can supply on DVD. As well as being able to obtain all 4 series of the Flying Circus television show, in a wonderful collection box, you can also get all 4 films on seperate DVD produtions, with The Life Of Brian being packed with extras on the Criterion Edition. And Now For Something Completly Different and The Meaning Of Life, offer little in the way of special features, but with the re-release of Holy Grail with more extras such than the first productuion, we should be able to forgive them for this.
And by the looks of it - things don't stop there. There seems to be A Monty Python Live DVD that will be available at the end of next month, which will also include the 1st of the two German specials that were made in the early seventies. The second of which is already available on the Life Of Python double DVD.
Once again, this proves how much better produced the DVD's are in the USA than in Britain. Even though these shows were all made over here and had British actors starring them, no effort goes into the DVD's at all.
If you cannot purchase the Python collection of DVD's from America, all you get is a selection of the best sketches from Series 1 of Flying Circus with no extras, and a rather poor production of The Meaning Of Life - again with no special features.
Even Fawlty Towers, isn't available on DVD over here, and that was, again one of the comedies to come out of the UK.
Going back to this DVD, it's good to see that there is more thought gone into producing this one, as the first release was lacking in extras. The Film itself is a classic, second only to Life Of Brian as the worlds best comedy film.
Standout moments - The Black Knight sequence, Brave Sir Robin's Song, and my personal favourite, Sir Lancelot being frisked up against the Police Car!!
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Summary: a hilarious comedy
Review: This is a very good movie, if your in for a lot of laughs. Right from the start you start to laugh out of control. He really knows how to put humor in english history. This movie is great for a slumber party. It has a few bloody scenes, but they're humorous. For example, at one fight scene to cross the bridge, he had to fight a knight who was blocking the bridge. So he chopped of one arm, then he slices off the other arm. The knight then starts to kick him so he slices off one leg, then the other. Finally as he is walking away with victory the knight says, "Come back here, I can still bite you." How Monty Python puts the most disgusting things into funny things is just one of a kind. Then there's the deal with the knights who say niph. You just have to see this movie!! I was thirteen when I saw it, because my world history showed it to us on the last few days of school! It is the best!
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Summary: This is nothing to fart in your general direction about!
Review: Wow this must be the funniest movie ever! Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a story of a quest yes a quest I say to find the grail with many many adventures along the way. The knights of the round table are sent by god to find this holy grail. They face the black knights, the knights who say NEE, rude frenchmen, Bill, an evil bunny, a monster, police, an old man, girls of peril, the three headed knight, townspeople, harsh weather conditions, a girl I mean man in need of help, wedding guests. The Monty Python team is back to its old tricks for some great acting in a movie that will be talked about for years to come. This is a must buy for anyone who has a DVD player.
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Summary: Best of the Best
Review: The funniest movie ever made. I have seen this movie well over 100 times and still find humor in the nuanuces. The biggest problem that most first-time viewers have is understanding the dialogue through the British accents. The humor is dry and intelligent, and it helps to know a little about history to "get" all of what they are satiring. Excellent, excellent flick.
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Summary: One of the Quirkiest and Funniest Movies of the Century
Review: If you talk to fans of comedy, specifically the British troupe known as Monty Python, they will invariably say that The Holy Grail is just that... the Holy Grail of comedic movies. It takes a story that virtually everyone knows at least something about, mixes in physical humor with intellectual humor, and ends up making you laugh while making fun of just about everything that most people would normally consider sarcosanct (namely, religion and history). This movie is stupid, yes, but it is stupid in such a brilliantly written way that it will leave you laughing for hours after you've finished watching it. It pokes fun at everything, with religion and history at its heart. Many of the themes in fact are loosely veiled so as to make fun of our modern problems in a very indirect way so that you don't even realize what you were laughing at until hours or days later after some introspection. The physical slapstick and the indirect satire (such as the scene of the Holy Hand Grenade - a classic that pokes fun at religion while seeming to embrace it) are melded perfectly in a way that only Monty Python can do it. The Special Edition is a vast improvement over the previous version, giving us a new anamorphic widescreen transfer, better sound, and some special features to boot. If you are even remotely interested in laughing, then laugh at religion, history, and everyone else along with our favorite British boys of the age before political correctness. This is a no-brainer for any self-loving movie fan.
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