Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 3
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Release Date: Mar 31, 1983 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.7/5
User Ratings: 182,067
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
Mar 31, 1983 Wide
All Critics (32) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (4) | DVD (17)
Edgy Python schtick better for older viewers.
Perfect Python!
Prime Monty Python, primo laughs.
Mostly dead-on and characteristically Pythonesque.
Spotty and fitfully very funny. Lacks the structure of the other Python big screen films.
MP, always funny...
Com sua irreverência habitual, o Monty Python cria um filme que diverte o espectador com seus enlouquecidos esquetes e seu humor sem concessões.
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, 2011Super 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, 2007Super Reviewer
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