When you sit down to watch a film with someone who hasn't seen it before and you find yourself saying to them "this is the best bit" at nearly every scene, you have to acknowledge that it fulfills the criterion necessary to be labeled "a masterpiece". This film makes that grade and as such joins an elite of less than a dozen films.
Everything that could possibly have gone right with this film did, from the ingenious opening to the laughable ending. One set of hilarious sketches after another including jokes about the monarchy, foreign nationals, troy, fabled mythical beasts, the constitution of the knights and God himself. The ending was perfect in my opinion because there never was a story in the first place. It was simply Monty Python at it's very best acting out a set of themed sketches with no real direction. To finish that with a proper "ending" would be to disrespect the film, themselves and the viewer.
Encompasing a wide and varied range of knowledge, from Greek Myth to Arthurian Legend, and from Political Philosophy to botany and zoology, this film displays the vast depth of knowledge of it's creators. It never fails to amuse and is, among a wide section of the British populace, communally quoteable.
I wouldn't hasten to recommend this film to anyone, and if you don't like it at least a bit then there surely must be something wrong with you. Not that it is my place to judge.
WATCH IT
Everything that could possibly have gone right with this film did, from the ingenious opening to the laughable ending. One set of hilarious sketches after another including jokes about the monarchy, foreign nationals, troy, fabled mythical beasts, the constitution of the knights and God himself. The ending was perfect in my opinion because there never was a story in the first place. It was simply Monty Python at it's very best acting out a set of themed sketches with no real direction. To finish that with a proper "ending" would be to disrespect the film, themselves and the viewer.
Encompasing a wide and varied range of knowledge, from Greek Myth to Arthurian Legend, and from Political Philosophy to botany and zoology, this film displays the vast depth of knowledge of it's creators. It never fails to amuse and is, among a wide section of the British populace, communally quoteable.
I wouldn't hasten to recommend this film to anyone, and if you don't like it at least a bit then there surely must be something wrong with you. Not that it is my place to judge.
WATCH IT