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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Review by James Anthony


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As a long-time fan of the Monty Python maniacs and someone who, while at school, was able to sit down with classmates and recite word for word the entire script of Monty Python and The Holy Grail, this fellow is a good judge of what is good and what is not.

The aforementioned movie was up and down, but brilliant. The Life of Brian was superb - possibly the best thing they've ever done - and The Meaning of Life was ... disappointing.

The movie is a collection of lengthy skits that looks at ... life, and does so with a humerous savagery.

Who can forget the song Every Sperm is Sacred? Even Grumpy couldn't ram it up the Catholic Church further than the Python team.

And how about the organ transplant done on the kitchen table. Or the surgeons kow-towing to hospital management about what wonderful machines they can afford while patient care goes out the window.

Best of all, however, is the bucket-filling vomiting antics of the appallingly obese Mr Creosote who gets what he deserves in the end.

Just about everything you can (and possibly should) hate gets a right royal bollocking by the Pythons and yet it comes across as an uneven hotch-potch of ideas.

Still, the transfer is very good and the extras on this DVD are massive.

The Meaning of Life is one for Monty Python fans.

Conclusion: 70% Extras: 90%.


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