Comedy > Gilliam, Terry Comedy > G

Advantages: So Funny
Disadvantages: Can be Boring Sometimes

...Brian,'' the members of the Monty Python troupe have demonstrated that it's possible to make wildly insane ''book'' comedies that look as impressive as ''Apocalypse Now.'' Revues, however, must appear to be lighter than air. ''Monty Python's the Meaning of Life'' recalls the format of ''Monty Python's Flying Circus,'' those wonderfully irreverent television shows -collections of mad sketches, surreal graphics and interruptions within interruptions ...
...settles down to the usual Monty Python concerns, presented in seven or eight separate sequences with titles such as ''Growth and Learning,'' ''Middle Age,'' ''The Autumn Years'' and ''Death.'' Among the highlights is a sequence set in the chapel of an ancient English public school where the rector, Michael Palin, intones, ''Forgive us, Lord, for this, our dreadful toadying,'' which is the cue for a wicked hymn in which the singers plead to be spared ... Read review

Advantages: DRUGS !
Disadvantages: none !

Daaaamnnnnn this movie is the best ever! Featuring Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire what is directed by Terry Gilliam. A totally junkie movie. When the journalist and his lawyer are going to a motocycle meeting, and the trips on the way and there and after. On the way there, they are going with a cadillac, "they were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold". This sentence always associates ...
...an auto stopper and they trip him out that much that the poor guy had to run away when they stopped to snort coke... They are smoking joints in the car, eating LSD that's the REAL life!! At the entrance to Las Vegas they see the sign.... Ok I don't remember exactly but there were written that for marijuana 30 years prison and such things... When they get in Las Vegas, drugged, totally hallucinating at the reception was a great trip, and the story ... Read review

Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: None

Another masterpiece from the lads. John Clease, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam star in this epic adventure in search for the holy grail. The opening credits feature a multitude of llama's who have contributed to the films production with cool flashing colours. The hilarity progresses from there following the quest of king arthur for the holy grail with his knight sidekicks. There are many funny moments in ... Read review

Advantages: Best Monty Python film ever
Disadvantages: DVD include absolutely no extra features

This was the first Monty Python movie I ever saw, years after my dad told me about the hilarious scene involving Mr. Creosote, and it remains my favourite Monty Python film. However, the DVD is the worst Monty Python DVD I have. ~~~ The Film ~~~ This review is mainly concentrated on the DVD, but I will include this section specifically on the film. The film itself is about life, so goes through stages of life, presented in parts until the meaning ...
...It's also the last Monty Python film, which is definitely unfortunate as they were only getting better and better. I think the main reason this film is my favourite is the fact it does not stay on one person or general topic. It feels quite random as it moves through life, from birth to life in school, and onwards through things such as the 'autumn years' and finally death and a visit to the afterlife. The cast, as usual, are naturally funny, adding ... Read review

Advantages: Typically inventive Gilliam Fare
Disadvantages: Poor 5.1 mix..if I have to

...1981 slice of nightmarish fairytale time travelling sci-fi historical war drama comedy. Well, it is Terry Gilliam after all, I didn't say this was going to be plain sailing. Reaching into the crevices of his imagination, he has put on screen an endlessly enjoyable romp through, time, space and your childhood wardrobe. Co-written with fellow Python Michael Palin, who one suspects gave the screenplay a solidity and kept it within boundaries, Gilliam ...
...are hopping their way across time and space by use of holes in the fabric of, well...existence. That the latest hole has dumped them in Kevin's wardrobe and not Napoleonic warfields is an oversight, and is soon to be remedied, with Kevin as an unwilling participant. So begins a twisted, warped rollercoaster ride through the pages of history, mythology and just plain lunacy. Kevin and the gang of Time Bandits constantly stay one halfwitted step ahead ... Read review