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Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
- MONTY PYTHONS THE MEANING OF L
A farcical view of life, heaven, birth and war, shown in the several skit-adventures made famous by the Monty Python crew.Perhaps only the collective brilliant minds of the Monty Python film and television troupe are up to the task of tackling a subject as weighty as the Meaning of Life. Sure, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and their ilk have tried their hands at this puzzler, but only Python has attempted to do so within the commercial motion picture medium. Happily for us all, Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life truly explains everything one conceivably needs to know about the perplexities of human existence, from the mysteries of Catholic doctrine to the miracle of reproduction to why one should avoid the salmon mousse to the critical importance of the machine that goes ping! Using fish as a linking device (and what marvelous links those aquatic creatures make), The Meaning of Life is presented as a series of sketches: a musical production number about why seed is sacred; a look at dinin
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D. Mikels
October 27, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Review by D. Mikels for Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
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The members of Monty Python apparently decided to pull out all the stops when they made their final motion picture. Even more bawdy, naughty, reckless, and wickedly deprived, MONTY PYTHON’S THE MEANING OF LIFE pulls no punches and takes no prisoners as it explores, unravels, and tramples upon the stages of life, from birth to death. This film is Python with ADD, rumbling and bumbling from one sketch to the next. And it’s darn funny.For me, the film hit a homerun with its opening short feature, “The Crimson Permanent Assurance Company,” followed shortly by a grand musical number–a hilarious spoof on Catholicism–entitled, “Every Sperm Is Sacred.” By now, the viewer is tweaked, alert, enthralled, giddy, and laughing. Most of the ensuing sketches are firecrackers of irreverent humor and relentless satire. Alas, the movie ended rather anticlimatically, and the film’s overall unevenness prohibited this reviewer from giving it five stars.If you like Monty Python, you’ll enjoy this film. If you’re unfamiliar with Python, yet willing to get smacked between the eyes with X-treme comedy, give THE MEANING OF LIFE a try. (Not on a full stomach; the “Mr. Creosote” sketch might have you reaching for some Alka-Setzer.) Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam give new meaning to the meaning of life!