MOVIES : Monty Python and the Holy Grail
I don't really like Monty Python. They're OK. This movie isn't. It's just a series of not very funny skits centered a little bit around the arthurian legends.
I think MP were mainly successful because they were the first, but their ideas and techniques have been evolved since then, so my frame of reference can't appreciate their acheivements.
Amusingly my feelings about this issue were very well described in a review of the movie that so incesed the MPs that they read it out aloud on the DVD! (With me nodding at each 'insulting' sentence)
The other DVD extra that made the movie worth watching was the Henry IV part 2 subtitles to the movie. The boys have gone and retreived large swathes of the original play that fit to the movie - and the shakespeare is funnier! I am not sure what percentage is actually from the play and what was made up to fit, but I now some of it is there because I checked out a few quotes that I could remember.
Pretty sad that my main source of enjoyment came from the subtitles named 'subtitles for those who hate MP and the holy grail' :)
I think MP were mainly successful because they were the first, but their ideas and techniques have been evolved since then, so my frame of reference can't appreciate their acheivements.
Amusingly my feelings about this issue were very well described in a review of the movie that so incesed the MPs that they read it out aloud on the DVD! (With me nodding at each 'insulting' sentence)
The other DVD extra that made the movie worth watching was the Henry IV part 2 subtitles to the movie. The boys have gone and retreived large swathes of the original play that fit to the movie - and the shakespeare is funnier! I am not sure what percentage is actually from the play and what was made up to fit, but I now some of it is there because I checked out a few quotes that I could remember.
Pretty sad that my main source of enjoyment came from the subtitles named 'subtitles for those who hate MP and the holy grail' :)
2 Comments:
What about the peasant question Arthur's right to rule. Surely that's funny?
Ashley.
Now, come on - could we seriously expect anything other than sketches from the Python boys? That's what they do - and the Meaning of Life is a far more blatant example of a bunch of skits chucked together. Funny or not, I do think you have to admire how much was achieved for very little money - did you watch the doco bit where they explained what was shot where?
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