I must admit that THIS was the only Python film to actually make me laugh out loud more than five times. That speaks volumes. Too bad that people do not consider this a Python film. It has Python written all over it and is very, very funny. Funnier than Holy Grail any day. IMO.
"I-I have trouble with my wind-pipe." "Well, just pass it along!"
Cool.
shareIt's okay. Not as funny as the Holy Grail though.
share"Too bad that people do not consider this a Python film."
Including people like Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Terry Jones...
Not expecting a reply to this because this board has about as much traffic as a desert road, but I have to disagree. This isn't anywhere near the Python films. Most of the jokes in this fell flat and structurally it's all over the place and hard to follow. I abandoned it half way through. It's a shame because I liked the sound of the premise, am a fan of Python, and like the Lewis Carroll poem that Jabberwocky is based on, and the mysteriousness of the creature in question. Would have been nice if some of that translated to the film. Instead it's just a bit of an unfunny mess, with wasted potential. Had it involved ALL the Python crew it probably would have been a classic as well.
shareI find myself in disagreement with yourself and the OP. I prefer the official Python films, but as a Gilliam film or Python offshoot, this is a wonderful little gem with its own delights and charms.
It has all the best characteristics of a cult classic.
It also has its own vibe. The sense of humour isn't really the same as Python, although there are some "echoes" certainly. But it's as much a Gilliam vehicle as a Python one. And, like all Gilliam films I have seen, enjoyable for the fingerprints of that auteur.
Thanks for replying.
I can see how the film might have some appeal to people as a sort of cult film. I did actually laugh maybe 2 or 3 times. With other jokes I could see what they were trying to do but they were either not worth doing or not very well executed. That's what I mean, if the other Python members had been on board and it was their film, those moments would have been far more polished and better written. I know it was never supposed to be and was always a Gilliam project, but the difference in the quality of gags shows.
In the director's commentary Gilliam is at pains to make clear it's not a Python film.
It's interesting though. Apparently there were many disagreements between the two directors -- the two Terries -- of the Holy Grail film. I feel this film is more like what Holy Grail would have been like if Gilliam had had his way.
- less episodic and more continuous narrative
- more gory
- always some kind of cartoonish character popping up with a quirky comment
- the scary music stuff that was sometimes in Grail
- the bizarre stuff, like the love of the potato