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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

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Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 27
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Release Date: Mar 31, 1983 Wide

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The Meaning of Life is without a doubt the most tasteless of the Monty Python feature films; it also happens to be one of the funniest. Life's questions are "answered" in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a pre-credits sequence at a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. One of our favorite bits involve the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor, pointing out that there's nothing in his

R, 1 hr. 49 min.

Musical & Performing Arts, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy

Directed By: Terry Gilliam , Terry Jones

In Theaters: Mar 31, 1983 Wide

Cast

Graham Chapman
First Fish Tony
John Cleese
Second Fish Grim
Terry Gilliam
Donor, Howard, Max, Pri...
Eric Idle
Fourth Fish
Terry Jones
Fifth Fish, Mrs. Brown
Michael Palin
Carter, Chaplain, Fathe...
Carol Cleveland
Headmaster's wife
Simon Jones
Chadwick Jeremy
Patricia Quinn
Mrs. Williams
Mark Holmes
A Severed Head
Valerie Whittington
Mrs Moore
Jennifer Franks
Imogen Bickford-Smith
Second Nurse
Angela Mann
Peter Lovstrom
Young Man
Victoria Plum
Anne Rosenfeld
George Silver
Creosotish Man
Matt Frewer
Andrew MacLachlan
Groom
John Scott Martin
Myrtle Devenish

Critic Reviews for Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

All Critics (32) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (4) | DVD (17)

Edgy Python schtick better for older viewers.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Afsheen Nomai

Common Sense Media

Perfect Python!

November 5, 2004 Comment

Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

Prime Monty Python, primo laughs.

October 15, 2004 Comment

Steve Crum

Kansas City Kansan Source: Kansas City Kansan

Mostly dead-on and characteristically Pythonesque.

March 11, 2004 Comment

Jake Euker

F5 (Wichita, KS) Source: F5 (Wichita, KS)

Spotty and fitfully very funny. Lacks the structure of the other Python big screen films.

January 29, 2004 Comment

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

MP, always funny...

January 7, 2004 Comment

Stefan Birgir Stefansson

sbs.is

Com sua irrever�ncia habitual, o Monty Python cria um filme que diverte o espectador com seus enlouquecidos esquetes e seu humor sem concess�es.

October 7, 2003 Comment

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

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Disappointingly worse and unfunny compared to AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, HOLY GRAIL, and LIFE OF BRIAN, but as we watch it we are sure that some scenes are sure to be remembered, whether that is a good thing, a bad thing, or an ugly thing.

June 20, 2011

Alexander Diminiano

Super Reviewer

Allot don't like this but I think its unique and really good. The sketchs are all really original and more sick n twisted than funny, you just watch to see how it ends up or how someones gonna die. Every sketch is brilliant, quite dark and risky in places, the effects look cool yet tacky at the same time hahaha and the

September 1, 2007

Phil Hubbard

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