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Grail is as funny as a movie can get, but it is also a tough-minded picture -- as outraged about the human propensity for violence as it is outrageous in its attack on that propensity.
Silly, sophomoric, and slapped together -- but would you want it any other way?
Monty Python's Flying Circus, the British comedy group which gained fame via BBC-TV, send-up Arthurian legend, performed in whimsical fashion with Graham Chapman an effective straight man as King Arthur.
A marvelously particular kind of lunatic endeavor.
Holy Grail suffers from the same syndrome that afflicts many of these restored classics: It is better remembered than actually seen.
For all its shenanigans, Monty Python and the Holy Grail has a sense of humor that is intellectual, even academic, at heart.
There's a semblance of a plot, but this is really just an excuse for the boys to engage in their unique brand of humor, which includes mimicry, dress-up, dry wit, slapstick and glorious non sequitors.
This new Blu-ray transfer cleans up the grainy picture of this low-budget classic as much as it can while packing in even more absurdist British humor for your buck.
If you like this film, the sad truth is that it's yet another visual upgrade, and it does contain what Gilliam called "the only reason for buying the Blu-ray"-those lost animations.
A comedy classic that only misses out on the Python canon's top spot because the talented swines also made Life Of Brian.
There's something about feature films that brings out the best in the Pythons. The occasional indulgence of the TV series is replaced by a more focused approach which wrings every conceivable joke out of a given subject.
A zany, hysterically funny, and sometimes brilliant if sometimes sophomoric send-up of every medieval movie ever made.
This has to be one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
Nonstop hilarity for families; some bawdy humor.
... contains just about everything from the previous releases and a little bit more ....
Troupe members Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones helmed this feature, bringing to it a visual style that is both cinematic and outrageously surreal.
Thirty-one years, plus well over a decade since I was abruptly introduced to the film. It is, as it was then, extraordinary.
A wonderful charm filters through these almost collegiate efforts, as if these underfunded Brits, in doing their best, did it better.
It's still one of the funniest, silliest and all-out strangest films you'll ever see. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.
Did we really need another version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail? No. But visual upgrades are always appreciated, and we got one here.
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