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Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)

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Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different was first released in the US in 1973, but didn't really take off as a midnight-movie fixture until after the Monty Python's Flying Circus TV series began making the PBS rounds. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam are the Pythonites in attendance, together with semiregulars Carol Cleveland and Connie Booth. The sketches presented include such classics as "The Lumberjack Song", "Hell's

PG, 1 hr. 29 min.

Television, Comedy

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Graham Chapman

Aug 3, 1999

Sony Pictures

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Fans will have most of it memorized by now.

May 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment (1)
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A kind of insane logic seems to connect the sketches, if you look hard enough, but mostly the movie seems to exist in the present and be willing to try anything for a laugh.

October 23, 2004 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
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Essential viewing for fans of Monty Python and British comedy, this film consists of some wonderful sketches, even though Terry Gilliam doesn't appear in them.

August 17, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

Best of Monty Python sketches in one neat package.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

A collection of deliberately unlinked comedy sketches and animated filler, the film is a workable sampler of the group's humor.

May 14, 2008 Comment

Although the cast is brilliant and the material generally funny, the film fails to take advantage of the big-screen format.

May 14, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

However, by refilming the sketches for a cinematic format, with new editing, camerawork, close-ups ... yet without the give-and-take energy of a live studio audience, what on TV was seat-of-the-pants fresh is here flat and overproduced.

April 8, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDJournal.com | Comments (2)
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All good stuff.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Old-school fans will dig it, and Python newcomers will see what all the fuss is about.

October 11, 2005 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

Como toda antologia, tem momentos mais e menos inspirados, mas, de modo geral, impressiona por sua inventividade.

August 6, 2005 Comment
Cinema em Cena

The first feature-length Monty Python film is a collection of some of their best bits from the show.

October 1, 2003 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

Monty Python's best known sketches reshot and compiled on film, with slight variations and occasional profanity. Great sketches, but a rather pointless exercise.

June 2, 2003 Comment
AboutFilm.com

A compilation of classic sketches.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

If you know this material, you know it well; if you don't, you're in for a bizarre surprise as these six gifted men -- in their youthful glory -- blend the surreal and the scatological, the high with the low, manufacturing oddly brilliant comedy.

November 7, 2002 Full Review Source: Netflix | Comment
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Laugh yourself purple.

June 18, 2011
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Alexander Diminiano

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Full on Python brilliance without the restraint of scripts or plot. Full review later.

November 16, 2011
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Thomas Bowler

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  • Monty Pythons wunderbare Welt der Schwerkraft (DE)
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