Monty Python & The Holy Grail (1975) Movie Reaction & Commentary | FIRST TIME WATCHING
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- “Tis but a scratch!” Today we are watching Monty Python & The Holy Grail (1975) for the first time. Monty Python & The Holy Grail (1975) is directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones and stars John Cleese, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, and Graham Chapman.
Alongside his noble “steed,” King Arthur gathers brave nights to accompany him on an epic quest to find the Holy Grail. Throughout their journey, they encounter fearsome foes, the Knights Who Say Ni, and a cute, cuddly, man-eating rabbit!
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01:16 Reaction
25:53 Final Thoughts
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Hello everyone! Thanks for waiting for this one :) We had no idea what to expect going into this one, and that's probably for the best lol. It was a wild ride, and the more I think about it, the more I like it! I can definitely see us watching it again in the future.
Which Monty Python film should we watch next?
- Sarah
Life of Brian hands down
The Count of Monte Cristo 1975 full movie on YT.
The Life of Brian is great, don't watch The Meaning of Life. Although I love it it has one of the grossest scenes in movie history.
The Life of Brian is more coherent but equally silly. Bigger budget and lots of actual satire this time. You could disappear down a Python rabbit hole and end up watching the old TV series or The Meaning Of Life (which is when they were past their creative best and just tries to be too shocking in places).
However if you like their mad animation, then why not follow Terry Gilliam's post-Python career. Lots of fabulously escapist movies like Time Bandits, Brazil (my favourite), Fisher King, 12 Monkeys (also brilliant), Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas etc... He's the true genius in their midst - a supreme filmmaker who *always* goes over budget!
Like everyone has already suggested 'The Life of Brian' but I would also highly recommend watching the their TV series 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'. After watching the show you'll have a better understanding of what Monty Python is all about. I also recommend John Cleese's show 'Fawlty Towers'
" Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government... " The whole dialog in this scene is pure gold.
Sounds better than the modern world, though.
Ohh yes...
.... and is as true today as it was in the 70's.
@@fredklein3829 I don't know about that.
@@CAbbott71 Please explain the joke in the movie to me i want to test you to see if you got it.
There's a key to enjoying Monty Python: Don't try to "get" it. It's absurdist. There's nothing to "get", no deeper meaning. The humor comes from the sheer absurdity, and, ridiculous situations.
Much of it is absurd, but it's not just nonsense. If you're very familiar with the history of the Arthurian legend, you'll recognize many references that are lost on those unfamiliar with it. The same with The Life of Brian, that film has many references a theologian would easily recognize.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important Exactly.
Moreover, it's a pretty direct parody and satire of film style and tropes, particularly historical epics. Their TV show was generally a parody of how television was made and presented, and the same is true of their films later on.
Don't let the comedy onn the surface fool you... this was actually a tragic tale of police misidentification and false arrest. The man who killed the famous historian could NOT have been one of Arthur's men. The killer had a real horse.
That is true on a conscious level. I think we "get it" unconsciously.
I used to hate the ending when I was younger because it felt unfinished. That was until years later when I realized that the ending is a literal cop out. The fact the ending is a pun makes it absolutely hilarious to me and I now love it.
This is exactly how I feel! As a younger man I was so unhappy with the ending because movies are supposed to end but as an adult, I find it so much more fitting!
It would have made more sense if they caught the real killer then. 🤣
That has always been Monty Python's philosophy. When they had their tv series, doing a skit they would continue as long as it stayed funny. Once the skit would start to lose steam, they'd transition into Terry Gilliams animations or just jump straight into a new comedy skit; they never felt the need to wrap up a skit that was no longer getting laughs. This was an extremely smart philosphy. Two of the most famous skits on the show, the Dead Parrot and the Lumberjack song, are great examples. The Dead Parrot sketch is amazing absurdist humor that finally gets all the laughs out that they can. So instead of coming up with a lame one liner to end the skit, Michael Palin as the shopkeeper says, "I never wanted to do this. I want to be a Lumberjack!" He walks out the door, takes off his coat revealing his fleece jacket and he's in a forest with a girl and a bunch of Canadian mounties. Before Palin starts the song, you can hear John Cleese, as the angry customer yell, "What about my bloody parrot!"
As writers of comedy, their skits often have a limited shelf life and they thought that it was more important to be funny and leave a bit than concluding one that stopped being funny half way through. The movie is mostly a collection of skits loosely strung together by the plot of the quest for the Grail. When looking for an ending, they couldn't come up with a traditional ending that met with their standards of staying funny to the very end; thus the B plot of the ruthless murder of the "historian". The audience is either completly confused by the occasional scenes of the police investigation or amused, but still clueless. Finally leading to the "Cop Out" scene, which is oddly brilliant. For some people it is funny, others are perturbed by the lack of a satisfactory ending, while many are just plain baffled. Anyway you slice it, you never will forget such a bizarre finish to this film.
@@robstoll7542 often not having endings for sketches is why they coined their famous line "Now for something completely different" as they moved to a new sketch.
It's a pun?
The running gag with the cats is because people believed them to be Witch's familiars, so they were killed - which also led to a boom in the rodent population, which subsequently helped with the spread of the Black Plague.
So witches WERE responsible for the plague. Since Witches tricked people into thinking that cats were their familiars, cats were killed. Dead cats = more rodents. More Rodents = more plague. The witches were playing 4d chess all along.
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Not really. There was a papal bull about a Satanic ritual where a cat statue was present and that statue then turned into a real cat and the cultists licked its butt and that is sometimes used as the bull that started a massacre on cats, but there isn't actually any evidence that happened. Cats were sometimes killed as symbols of the evil, but not in very great numbers. The witch craze was also more a thing of the second half of the 15th and the 16th century, so more early modern and not medieval. Catholic christians in the medieval world didn't really believe in witchcraft, that belief itself was seen as heretical. So someone accusing others of witchcraft and someone doing rituals in the belief those would work were basically the same kind of heretics. Some of the most prominent witch conspiracy theorists even complained that the clergy wasn't willing to admit the "reality" of witchcraft.
Also: The plague was probably more devastating in Egypt than in England, so I don't think cats were that much of a factor. Most of the spreading was done by humans, not by rats. The plague was even at places with nearly no rat populations.
@@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei
Which is why I said *people* - not the Church specifically :P
@@TheFrugalVideoGamer Yeah, but it was still not really a thing to kill cats in large numbers and it's still unlikely it had any effect on the spreading of the plague.
@@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei Völlig richtig Bruder! Wenn man beobachtet, wie tapfer Katzen einer Auseinandersetzung mit Ratten aus dem Weg gehen. Hunde hingegen, machen mit Ratten kurzen Prozeß...
They didn’t seem to catch on to the fact that Sir Bedivere kept on opening his visor to look at things because the bars are positioned specifically over his eyes. Hilarious
I always like the idea that there’s just a bunch of dudes LARPing in the woods and in the middle of it all there’s this murder mystery you never see. Classic film.
There are so many moments that still absolutely crack me up to this day. The Frenchman saying "I wave my private parts at your aunties!" is one of my all time favorite insults
"Tis but a scratch."
"A scratch!? Your arms off!
"No, it isn't."
"Well, what's that?"
"I've had worse."
"You liar!"
"Come on, you pansy!"
I always think of this scene, whenever I play chess against somebody who just refuses to resign.
"Monty Python" is the name of the 6-man comedy troupe who created and starred in the BBC TV series "Monty Python's Flying Circus", and whose members played the leading parts in this film (and a few others). As with most of their projects the members wrote the script and played multiple roles in this film.
They got their name from the fact that the show was not about flying, was not a circus and there was no one called Monty Python...
The films work better. Once you've viewed the first few episodes of Flying Circus, the formulae and cut-and-paste pattern absurdity start to wear thin.
@@chrispalmer7893 Nice, to take a borrowing from Voltaire...
I always loved their combination of silly slapstick jokes and intelligent jokes ... like when they break down the British legend of King Arthur & The Lady of the Lake ... “ Strange women laying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not through some farcical aquatic ceremony.”
That particular scene actually doesn't correctly break down the Arthurian legend, since the sword Excalibur or the sword pulled from the stone, is not why Arthur is made king. It's a good joke, but they had to ignore the actual legend to be able to make it work.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important Point taken. I wasn’t trying to argue that Monty Python is a great source for historical accuracy … I was just noting that their jokes are split between the absurdly silly … like the fish slapping dance … and the more intellectual … like The Argument Clinic.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important - Well it's no more or less absurd than ANY claim to "royalty". In fact, I'd be more inclined to hand power to someone who was selected under supernatural circumstances, than to someone who claimed power through 'birthright'.
Trying to figure out how a coconut might end up in Europe, was a very intelligent one.
@@My-Name-Isnt-Important There isn't "a" legend; there are a number often-conflicting legends from multiple periods and sources.
I have to pipe up with a counterpoint against everyone saying "don't think about it"
If this was just a dumb, don't-think-about-it comedy it wouldn't still be popular after 50 years. There's a lot of sharp satire and commentary, some of which will go over our heads because it's about British classism, but a lot of it is universally relevant observations of history, religion, politics, myth and legend, and film-making. You're not going to get peasants telling their king "We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune" from "The Hangover"
Things that seem like a throwaway joke - the constant abuse of cats for instance - that's a reference to a real thing in medieval Europe when the church mounted campaigns to round up and exterminate cats because they thought they were the familiars of witches. So then the rat populated exploded and spread The Plague.
Yes there are deeper meanings to some of the jokes. But the don’t think too hard comes from people treating it like a regular movie with an internal consistency. Like when reactors to the film try to fit the modern day police with the medieval knights.
No one is saying it is stupid. They are saying it is absurd. Those are two different things. There is a difference between dumb and not realistic. Just don't go into a Python movie or episode of their TV show expecting a linear A leads to B leads to C and so on plot line. A may lead to B but it also may lead to G or P or Y or not lead anywhere at all. Just stay in the moment and try not to look ahead or have any preconceived notion about what is going to happen next. A Python movie is the movie watching version of bull riding. You aren't trying to figure out why the bull is buckiing you are just trying to stay on for eight seconds. You think about it but you wait until after the movie is over to concentrate on thinking about it. If you think about it during the movie you will miss the next joke. Also the movie is like an onion in that every time you watch it you can peel a layer off of it and discover something hidden underneath it you missed the last time you watched it. I watched this movie at least ten times before I noticed the Certain Death milepost in the Sir Robin scene and Eric Idle biting his sword to keep from cracking up waiting for John Cleese to deliver his line in the witch scene.
I mean, the cat thing is just a myth. Terry Jones was one of the most important British historians about the medieval age, so I think a lot is actually more a joke about the stuff people believe about the medieval age. For example the always dirty peasants who just crawl in some filth for no reason.
@@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei Correct!
What is the air speed violosity?
"She turned me into a newt!!"
everyone looks at him with disbelief
"I got better"
"Runaway" instead of "Retreat" is one of my favorite parts of this movie. It's a gift that keeps on giving.
Yes... That I noticed, too. And I'm not a native english speaker...
23:33 "Must be like a fourth wall break or something" had me crying. The whole movie, from the subtitle argument in the opening credits to the theatre organ music after the last scene, was one long fourth wall break.
The ending is a COP OUT.
Terry Gilliam (King Arthur’s side kick “Patsy” and the old man at the bridge of death) did all the animations for both this movie and the Monty Python television episodes. He co-directed this film and has gone on to a long career as a director of many well known movies.
TIME BANDITS
BRAZIL
THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN
THE FISHER KING
12 MONKEYS
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
Also:
The Meaning of Life
Jaberwocky
The Brothers Grimm
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
Tidelands
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
He is also the only American in the troupe.
but I thought he suffered a fatal heart attack?
@@nileprimewastaken He got better. ^_^
Brazil is definitely a movie to review
Seeing this film was my first experience with Monty Python. And this was long before this kind of random wacky humor became popular in the US. So this was unlike anything I had experienced before. Everything felt so out there and unexpected and yet oddly made sense to me at the same time too. I absolutely loved it.
Fans have taken to call the ending a "Cop Out" ending. In the most literal sense. Basically, the police went on a search for the killer of the Famous Historian and shut down the film production before they could film the ending. The movie is a great example of the quest being more interesting than the ending. But, in this case, funny, as opposed to interesting.
Their next movie "The Life of Brian" is even better imo and is a must watch and a comedy masterpiece!!
You'll love it!
Great reaction BTW!
Sir Robin, the Not-quite-so-brave-as Sir-Lancelot, who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor, who nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol; and who had personally wet himself at the Battle of Badon Hill.
Sir Bedevere: “And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped.” King: “This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere.”
Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be used to prevent earthquakes.
This is a good starting point. Life of Brian is Python at the height of their power.
'Couldn't I have just a little peril?'
What I want to know is exactly how Eric and Sarah clean THEIR cats, since they seem so critical of the cat-cleaning method portrayed in the film, it sounds like they think they have a better method *scoff*.
They were framed. The real killer rode a horse, and they didn't have any horses (budgetary concerns, that's why they used the coconuts.)
"Monty Python's Flying Circus" was a super low-budget TV show in England. It had the same seven cast members you saw in the film, and did insane comedy sketches like the movie. Their first movie was "And Now For Something Completely Different" that was a compilation of their most popular sketches but with higher production value.
"Holy Grail" was their next movie, followed by "Life of Brian" which has to be the next one you watch. They finished with "The Meaning of Life," another collection of sketches written specifically for the movie. Occasionally some cast members would get together to appear in non-Monty Python films. By far the best one of those is "A Fish Called Wanda," another must-see.
Terry Gilliam, appearing as the animator who had a heart attack, the servant banging the coconuts together, and the old man at the Bridge of Death, was the animator for the TV show and also the only American on the team. He went on to produce and direct his own movies, each of which are as bizarre as Monty Python projects.
One other interesting fact is Beatles member George Harrison was friends with the Monty Python crew. When they were trying to get financing for "Holy Grail," everybody kept turning them down. But George read the script and wanted to see the movie so bad, he offered to finance it himself.
@@SimSim-zf9if And dang did they push the boundaries! Remember the skit when Cleese's character goes to an undertaker after mother died ... "We can burn 'er, bury 'er, or dump 'er in the Thames..." And it got WORSE from there! Lol
Only six cast members including Gilliam.
George Harrison didn't finance Holy Grail, he financed Life of Brian. It was Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd who provided the extra funding for Holy Grail.
The movie George Harrison financed was "The life of Brian". Because of its theme it was very controversial at the time and the original production company canceled their involvement in the project. George Harrison had read the script and loved it. And because of this he founded his own production company and got the movie made.
@@tomsalinsky1 "six men and a girl" - Carol Cleveland.
I've probably watched 15 reactions to this movie over the years and you are the first to comment on the swallow carrying a coconut, so big thumbs up
Monty Python is the name of the group of guys that wrote, starred in, and directed the movie. They are Graham Chapman; John Cleese; Terry Gilliam; Eric Idle; Terry Jones; and Michael Palin. Sadly, two of them have passed on, but they were, or are, the funniest guys in the world. It was a lot easier to enjoy this movie, or any Monty Python movie, back in the day because I had spent several years watching them on TV before the movies came along. Look up Monty Python's Flying Circus (that's the name of the show) and you will get a feel for where these guys were coming from.
the overall theme of this film is absolute absurdity
One of this film's greatest accomplishments is that it has no original score, aside from the songs sung by the knights of Camelot and Robin's minstrels; all those gorgeously epic music pieces are cues carefully selected from the De Wolfe music library.
My favorite, when the King yell's "Run Away!!!" after a mass attack on the rabbit. I always laugh.
If memory serves they were shooting the film mostly in Scotland. Now most of the castles were privately owned and they didn't get permission(or have the funds to pay) to film the castle at end. So when they started filming the raid on the castle the police had been called by the owners for trespassing. So when everything was sorted out they had no funds to re-shoot the end at a different location and it was simpler to add the few scenes with the "historian murder" to tie in the footage that was already shot and just end it. If there's one thing to pull out of this is that when you have a awesome comedy troupe like Monty Python lack of budget is part of the humor.
There was only 2 castles, doune castle was used for every exterior and interior scene until the castle at the end. That castle at the end is Castle Stalker, which was and still is privately owned, and had just finished a 10 year restoration.
People lived in tiny hovels. There 'wasn't enough room to swing a cat.' Visual pun cat short for cat-o-nine-tails... (The whip)
The reason the knights weren't riding horses was because the production couldn't afford them. At least that's what I heard. They decided to make a joke of it.
The idea of them clopping coconuts together was decided at a very early stage, before they'd even written the script. The coconuts are there for reasons of typical Pythonesque silliness, not budget constraints. Besides, coconut references appear throughout the movie, so it's evidently not just a one-trick joke. I don't think any of the Pythons knew how to ride horses anyway.
Monty Python was a late 1960`s British tv Series, the full name was Monty Python`s Flying Circus. Monty Python is the group of writers/performers, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle & Terry Gilliam, who portrayed several different characters each in the films. Terry Gilliam was the animator for the tv Series & films.
They were ably assisted by Carol Cleveland (Zoot in Castle Anthrax) both in the tv Series & the films/stage shows.
My favorite moment, the minstrel's song after Sir Robin's flight.
One thing that might help you to understand this movie would be to watch some episodes of their TV show. Their show was a series of sketches full of absurdist humor that were tied together with running gags and Gilliam's animations. You would be watching one skit only to have it be interrupted by a gag from a earlier skit. That is basically what this movie is. A series of sketches loosely tied together by the legend of King Arthur.
The conversations get so far off the rails so fast but you can still follow them and see how they got there! Genius! In high school me and my friends could rattle off whole scenes! A true classic!!
Monty Python is the name of the 6-man comedy team (5 actors/writers and one animator). They had a UK sketch comedy show for about 6 or 7 years on the BBC. They were known for ending their skits by just having an announcer walk into camera and proclaim the skit as being too silly, which might explain the ending.
Notice that the end was a literal "cop out" XD
Genius stuff!
FINALLY IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS REACTION,is one of my favorite movies.
Fun Fact:
In the Killer Rabbit scene, a real white rabbit was used. He was dyed with what was assumed to be a washable red coloring liquid in the shots after the battle. When filming wrapped, the rabbit's owner was dismayed to learn the dye could not be rinsed off. Terry Gilliam described in an audio commentary that the owner of the rabbit was present and shooting was abruptly halted while the cast desperately attempted to clean the rabbit before the owner found out, an unsuccessful attempt. He also stated that he thought that, had they been more experienced in filmmaking, the crew would have just purchased a rabbit instead. Otherwise, the rabbit was unharmed. The rabbit-bite effects were done via special puppetry by Terry Gilliam and special effects technician John Horton.
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I love how Terry Gilliam gets a character credit for being the rabbit and also the gorilla hand.
Monty Python's Flying Circus was a really funny and groundbreaking sketch comedy show that ran for 4 seasons. Halfway through the show's run, they put out a movie called "And Now for Something Completely Different" which was a re-shoot of a bunch of sketches from the show with a slightly higher budget. It was mainly for the American audience who didn't get to see the tv show. When the show ended, Holy Grail was their first venture into a full feature-length "story". Very low-budget which added to the comedy. The next movie had a higher budget, "Monty Python and the Life of Brian". They had a lot of difficulty in getting any film company to do the movie but George Harrison of The Beatles put up the money to fund the production. When asked why he did that, he simply said "I just wanted to see it".
Ran for four seasons and then shown on US PBS stations for 30 years or so. Used to watch it after coming home from school.
Nice Motorhead shirt! Fun fact: Motorhead were all huge Monty Python fans. Michael Palin co-owned a studio where Motorhead were recording, so he popped in and recorded a "priest's blessing" for thier song "Stone Deaf in the USA"
The funny fact is that when they were filming the scene with the wizard he wanted to say a long and complicated name what he came up with but when he needed to say it he forgot it so he improvised and Tim was the first name that came to his mind and they liked that take so much that they kept it in the final movie.🤣🤣
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That's great work!
I have loved this movie since I was a kid, I recently showed it to my 10 year old grandson and even though he didn’t understand a lot of it he loved the silliness. 🤣
*Seizure warning 2:05 - 2:10 *
A classic off-the-rails British comedy, this. As another commenter noted, maximum enjoyment of any Monty Python skit or film is to just roll with it. Keep that in mind if you want to venture into further madness!
I have to mention the greatness that is Fawlty Towers, a comedy series written by and starring Monty Python alum John Cleese and Connie Booth, who appeared in The Holy Grail as the "witch" on trial. It's a popular example of old-school Britcom greatness that - while very much of its time - holds up overall well and has provided me with many laughs in difficult times. That's no small feat, considering it only ran for 12 episodes: 6 in 1975, another 6 in 1979. I recommend it highly.
... just don't mention the war!
If one more bloody person types "The Ending was a literal "Cop Out" .... I'll have an Aneurysm!
I remember watching this with my cousin when I was 14. The Black Knight scene had me dying of laughter. It's still one of my favorite comedies; I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Weirdly, coconuts DO kind of migrate--they're designed to float away.
The ending, like the coconut horses, were budget considerations, which just adds to their genius.
They don't hate cats...its just how you had to clean them in the 10th Century...beat them against a wall.
It always cracked me up how Tim was blowing shit up everywhere and was afraid of the rabbit they killed with a bomb.
Few fun Facts
1. The movie was cut short as the budget literally ran out. They didn't have a particular beetle that knew them well enough to get funding so.....they came up with a sudden ending that fit the tone.
2. Half of the extras in the final big war scene? Kids and relatives of the staff given knitted chain mail and a prop weapon!
3. The rant from Dingo about "being cut" was because in the cinemas that scene WAS infact cut!
4. Tim the Enchanter was originally supposed to be something much more long winded and nonsensical (parodying mystical names) but Cleese forgot the name while filming and just said "Tim", it seemed so anticlimatically fitting they stuck with it....plus the fact it helped the budget
5. Watch the scene where they are discussing the witch. You can see Eric Idle at one point having to bite his garden tool because Cleese had also forgot that link and needed a moment to remember, Idle trying not to laugh.
I remember the ending when I saw this in the theater in the 1970's. Midnight showing at the Kentucky Theater in Lexington KY. Everyone sat there for a minute, looked around and started talking to each other. They left confused and bewildered. That was funny in and of itself. : )
Comedy at their very, very, very best. So incredibly rare these days.
Friend and i watched this movie when we were teenagers, we roared with laughter, laughed our brains out 1975
The ultimate cop-out ending.
Monty Python is the group name composed of five British transvestites (John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones) and one American illustrator/cartoonist (Terry Gilliam). Other semi regulars in the group receive less prominent billing including two women (Carol Cleveland, Connie Booth) and music provided by Neil Innes.
This is a very unique movie as there are very very very few documentaries of the early middle ages that were actually filmed during the early middle ages. Oh, and no rabbits were actually harmed during the filming of this documentary.
Having watched every episode of Monty Pythons in the 70's and early 80's the film made complete sense to me, with no suprises. I must have watched it 50 times or more.
To me, this is their best movie. I just loved it. From start to finish.
One of the most quotable movies EVER!
That's the problem. The fans who incessantly quote it won't STFU.
@@Hexon66 Also.... NI!
This is but one movie that the Monty Python group did; they were most known for their TV series of sketch comedy along similar absurdist humor, Monty Python's Flying Circus. Their other movies vary from being much more narrative-focused like Life of Brian to being pretty much an extended series of skits like Meaning of Life. If you like the style, though, there's no beating the lower budget of the TV series, where the acting and writing have a much better chance to shine.
pioneer of callback comedy, the joke about swallow came full circle at the end.
_"Camelot!"_
_"It's only a model."_
The ending is a literal cop out.
They're at what they do. Monty Python is known for sheer madcapness. They had a weekly skit show in England back in the day and some of their movies were also a montage of that show. PLus they had some great songs that went along with the scenes.
Little fun fact, the reason why the black knight keeps fighting is because his emblem is a 🐗 because boars are know to keep fighting even when their fatally injured
Fun fact about the horses/lack thereof. They wanted to have actual horses but it wasn’t in the budget, so they went with the coconuts instead ☺️
Ah one of my favourite movies! You guys are awesome!
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I have watched this movie so many times and it never gets old
Only last month i learned on the comments of a reaction that it was a black screen because the credits people were sacked at the start. 10 years after i first seen the movie and only now i got it XD
Monty Python’s Meaning of Life is a worthwhile watch
Hope you two are having an great and awesome day ❤
Thanks John! You too man 😁
My theory is that it was just a big LARP, and that was a reporter reporting on their session. Someone dressed as a knight came and murdered him, on a real horse no less, so the cops get called and they shut the whole LARP down to question everyone.
The ending is seriously so great. It makes no sense, but at the same time it's perfect!
A couple of the Pythons had studied Medieval literature at University, so this film has a many inside medievalist jokes in it. The "butt trumpets" is actually a motif you can find in the marginal illustrations of some Gothic manuscripts. Another is motif in marinalia is knights fighting rabbits.
Did you notice that the knight that killed the historian was riding an actual horse 🐎 and not just banging coconut together 🤔?
When I was younger, my mom walked in at this moment 7:52
That ending was a "cop out"
She was using the cat too knock off the dirt on the rug
While it is not related to Monty Python, this movie is set in England. It is a comedic spoof on a detective/murder mystery called "The Man Who Knew Too Little." It stars Bill Murray with Peter Gallagher and Alfred Molina.
One of my favourite Monty Python movies. The Life of Brian is amazing too
An important thing to bear in mind with Monty Python is that it really is just people being very silly but, they're very good at it. It is very easy to act absurd but it requires talent and wit to be hilarious while being absurd. Monty Python was huge in UK from when the series first appeared on national tv, it appealed to all ages, from myself at 10yrs old with my whole family up to age 70, literally crying and aching with laughter.
This flick still holds up. It's way older than I am, but I keep coming back to it. It was so ahead of its time.
A cool fact about that final scene with all the soldiers dressed up, its actually just the same crew they've been using the whole movie but with friends and family on top of that they spread them out to give the illusion of a huge force when in fact its multiple shots and angles that make it seem like a big army. When in reality it was more like 30 people or something close to that
The plan was actually to ride horses but they found out some of them could not ride, so they kind of on the spot made up the coconut replacement ..
The last scene is a literal cop-out ending.
This movie is great and ridiculous!! 🤣 Definitely a film you can rewatch and notice more things. Monty Python is a comedy troupe that had a TV series in England. Much like Saturday Night Live or SCTV. They all play the different roles throughout the film. Glad you finally got the opportunity to experience this movie. They have a couple more. I definitely suggest checking out the Life of Brian. Enjoyed your reaction and the puzzlement on your faces 😊 thanks for sharing. Hope both of you are doing well.❤️
I love the "cop out" ending 🤣🤣🤣
The Monty Python style is unique and has influenced modern comedy greatly. Pythonesque is a real word used to describe when others mimic the style.
The gags are not always pointless, they do sneak in some smart stuff in there, but it can be subtle.
This movie spoofs on a lot of things… The King Arthur legends, the film creation process, and the hero’s journey concept… This movie subverts all of it.
Keep in mind that to the average British person at the time the movie was released, the legend of King Arthur was akin to the story of Jesus. That may be a bit hyperbolic of a statement, but not by a lot. So to portray the knights as inept, cowardly, and un-chivalrous was akin to blasphemy (which their next movie essentially was, being a spoof on religion) to the average Brit, or at least to the ones of higher station.
Making a movie that didn’t follow a coherent structure, and constantly broke the fourth wall, even pointing out it was a movie, even by the characters themselves at times… Basically broke all the rules of film making.
Having the characters basically wander about aimlessly, with not rhyme or reason, failing constantly, and then not even completing their quest… breaks the hero’s journey narrative structure.
This movie subverts everything about hero’s, films, and Arthurian legend. By all measures it shouldn’t work… but the Python crew made it work anyway.
They actually got a lot of funding for their movies from other famous Brits, because no studios wanted to finance the films. But they had many famous and rich fans who wanted to see what they could do.
The Life of Brian is a much more straightforward movie. It is full of their irreverent humor, but more closely follows a coherent plot.
Wisecrack, a channel on CZcams has a video that talks about the lasting influence of Monty Python, and goes over some of their humor and satire. They really did influence so much of our modern comedic writers. It’s a good watch, but it does spoil a bit of the other movies too, as it does show various parts and even discusses the endings.
9:52 Well, some people will rejoyce... :)
20:04 "Creature so foul, so cruel, that no man yet has fought with it and lived..."
23:03 "I don't know that..." :D
23:40 That music "The Promised land" is fantastic.
"Blazing Saddles"(1974)
"Caddyshack"(1980)
"Uncle Buck"(1989)
You ever get the feeling that a guy banging on coconuts needs to be a mount in World of Warcraft?
An absolute Comedy Classic. It doesn't get a lot better than Monty Python. 👍🤣
Watch it again. And again and again. (And oh lawdy... not knowing who/what is Monty Python... these poor people have such a huge future to fill.)
Next up is Life of Brian
Monty Python were the Beatles of the comedy world.
Back in the day it took me awhile to realize that the Monty Python troupe, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and the only American in the troupe Terry Gilliam played multiple roles in the movie. John Cleese has always been my favorite. He had a television series called "Fawlty Towers " that was hilarious. You should check it out.
It was a British tv show for many years then they made 4 movies Monty Python and holy grail,the meaning of life, Jabberwocky and the life of brian
Jabberwocky is not a Monty Python movie, it's a Terry Gilliam movie. That's like saying Time Bandits, Brazil or A Fish Called Wanda are Python movies. They made three movies that are worth seeing, and they made two earlier ones: a live one and a lousy compilation of their best TV skits.