AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT consists of some of Monty Python's funniest sketches from their earliest years together. Director Ian MacNaughton leads John Cleese,... more
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of their best skits from the first two seasons of the TV series. Originally made for the US market (where the show had yet to be aired), it was shot on film outside the usual studio sets ("Nudge Nudge", for example, is set in a tavern filled with passers-by). The writing and performances are fine and the film is packed with some of their best bits: "How to Avoid Being Seen", " Hell's Grannies", "Blackmail", "The Lumberjack Song" and "The Upper Class Twit of the Year", among others. Many of the sketches have been shortened, however, and the loss of the overly bright video sheen (the film has a muddy, dull look to it) and the invigorating presence of a live audience leaves the film sluggish at times. They're still feeling out the possibilities of the feature length, which they conquered with their next movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974). --Sean Axmaker
of their best skits from the first two seasons of the TV series. Originally made for the US market (where the show had yet to be aired), it was shot on film outside the usual studio sets ("Nudge Nudge", for example, is set in a tavern filled with passers-by). The writing and performances are fine and the film is packed with some of their best bits: "How to Avoid Being Seen", " Hell's Grannies", "Blackmail", "The Lumberjack Song" and "The Upper Class Twit of the Year", among others. Many of the sketches have been shortened, however, and the loss of the overly bright video sheen (the film has a muddy, dull look to it) and the invigorating presence of a live audience leaves the film sluggish at times. They're still feeling out the possibilities of the feature length, which they conquered with their next movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974). --Sean Axmaker
Phython name!. Feel the twisting terror as you're bombarded by John Cleese's greatest insults! Taste the agony as you helplessly strain to master the art of Python cooking! Scramble your brains as you struggle with the slightly more difficult than the mostly easy but nowhere near as hard as the absolutely impossible brain-numbing questions! 201 pp.
Production Year: 1983 - Comedy - Director: Harold Ramis, Amy Heckerling, Jeremiah S. Chechik, Stephen Kessler - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over
Advantages: Very funny Disadvantages: Doesn't include all the best moments
...Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Graham Chapman, put together a comedy TV show called Monty Python's Flying Circus. The show consisted of comedy sketches written and performed by the troupe, bizarre animations and random songs dropped in for no apparant reason. Since all the Pythons have written and contributed, there is a wide variety of styles and jokes, giving something for everyone. The show was a huge success and so the group put together ... ...in the World, Hell's Grannies and the Lumberjack Song. Most of the Python's best known moments find their way in here, but not all. There just wasn't room for everything. This film doesn't require any prior knowledge of the Pythons or their work, just a sense of humour. Those who have seen Flying Circus will probably recognise most of the material, but those who haven't will be bowled over by the shear scale of silliness. The DVD extras aren't really ...
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And Now For Something Completely Different (RESCHEDULED) (Collector's Edition) (DVD)
Main specs
Actor(s): John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
Director(s): Ian MacNaughton
Genre: Comedy
Classification: Parental Guidance
Production Year: 1971
Running Time: 1 hour 24 minutes
Plot: AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT consists of some of Monty Python's funniest sketches from their earliest years together. Director Ian MacNaughton leads John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam on a hysterical romp through pet shops, marriage counselor offices, and odd London streets and fields filled with singing lumberjacks, dead parrots, hungry babies, upper-class twits, people trying not to be seen, and old ladies on motorcycles, fighting off milkmen, bank robbers, crazy flashers, dirty forks, and killer jokes. The sketches have been recreated for the big screen, without the ever-present laugh track but still loaded with Gilliam's outrageously funny animation. As in the television show, the skits are linked together through clever animation as well as by characters in uniform (Graham Chapman, in this case) proclaiming, I'm warning this film not to get silly again. Among Monty Python's favorite targets are the military, the police, the British government, the courts, Mao, Uncle Sam, and television reporters. As always, there are lots of men in drag. Even the closing credits are a riot. But watch out for that 16-ton weight....
DVD Description
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT consists of some of Monty Python's funniest sketches from their earliest years together. Director Ian MacNaughton leads John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam on a hysterical romp through pet shops, marriage counselor offices, and odd London streets and fields filled with singing lumberjacks, dead parrots, hungry babies, upper-class twits, people trying not to be seen, and old ladies on motorcycles, fighting off milkmen, bank robbers, crazy flashers, dirty forks, and killer jokes. The sketches have been recreated for the big screen, without the ever-present laugh track but still loaded with Gilliam's outrageously funny animation. As in the television show, the skits are linked together through clever animation as well as by characters in uniform (Graham Chapman, in this case) proclaiming, I'm warning this film not to get silly again. Among Monty Python's favorite targets are the military, the police, the British government, the courts, Mao, Uncle Sam, and television reporters. As always, there are lots of men in drag. Even the closing credits are a riot. But watch out for that 16-ton weight....
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date: 03/05/2004
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: CDR 10046 CE
Barcode: 5035822004696
Screenwriter: Terry Jones, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Michael Palin
Animation: Terry Gilliam
Composer: Eric Idle
Featured: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
Producer: Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Patricia Casey
Author: John Cleese, Graham Chapman
Voice: John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
Pres/Narr: Michael Palin
Languages
Main Language: English
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