A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

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05/03/2015 And the troupe does it again, portraying their crude sense of humor almost completely in animation this time. See more 01/03/2015 Even as a Monty Python fan, this feels pointless in its existence and excessive in terms of style. See more 08/12/2014 It tries a little too hard to be 'wacky' See more 08/09/2014 Wanted to like it more than i did See more 08/08/2014 Excellent animated reimagining of the life of a comic talent. See more 04/28/2014 Based upon Graham Chapman's A Liar's Autobiography, Volume VI (1980), which was a fictionalised take on his life, this animated take was directed by Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson and Ben Timlett, who were behind the documentary Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut). It's visually striking, but it's more surreal than funny. Narrated by Graham Chapman, taken from an audio reading of his book recorded in 1986, it tells us of his "life", his childhood growing up with his father (Michael Palin) and mother (Terry Jones). :P How Chapman found out he was gay, and the trouble he had coming out to his parents and people he knew, and how he gave up his career as a doctor to go into comedy after a chance encounter with the Queen Mother (Palin again), and getting work in TV with David Frost (John Cleese), but when he started Monty Python, he descended into alcoholism, but he beat the booze and went to live in Hollywood as a tax dodge. It has some brilliantly animated scenes, but the joke that it's a fictionalised biopic of Chapman's own life, (and knows it), does work against it sometimes, especially if you want to hear some true facts. But it does have some pretty memorable sequences, some sexual and some violent, oh and Cameron Diaz appearing as Sigmund Freud... :P See more Read all reviews

A Liar's Autobiography - The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

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