Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life DVD

Advantages: It's Monty Python, very funny, great songs
Disadvantages: May offend some

...can imagine the scene, the Monty Python boys are meeting, probably in Michael Palin's house ( I hear his wife makes great sausage rolls) to discuss ideas for their new, and final, movie. Having tackled organised religion in "The Life of Brian" and outraged the Church, they have to decide who to tackle, and thus offend, this time. Perhaps after rejecting several ideas, a voice from the back of the room, probably John Cleese returned from the toilet, ...
...inspirational aid, shouts. "I've got it guys! Lets do a movie that offends everybody!" And bloody hell ,they did it. So if you're at all sensitive and are either Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, a member of any religious body, male, female, black, white, American, Scottish, English, French, Northern, London urbanite, public school educated or offended by sexist comedy, strong language or scenes of extreme gore and violence, or female nudity or copious ... Read review

Advantages: Very funny and highly amusing.
Disadvantages: Some sick jokes.

...people of my age the Monty Python team hold a special place in our laughter glands. The Python television programmes broke every convention of comedy at that time and the transfer to the movie world has given the team the chance to expand their sketches and produce a great film. The film is split into seven parts and each part looks at a different aspect of life, but from rather an unconventional angle. Part 1. “The Miracle of Birth” ...
...very strange way of being presented that only the Monty Python team could write and perform. If you enjoy the quirky type humour of Monty Python then you will love this film, it is excellent and I can recommend it to anyone with a strange sense of humour. ... Read review

Advantages: Very funny, Monty Python, Weird moments of pure brilliance
Disadvantages: Sick, foul mouthed, sometimes unfunny, (bit like a grandparent)

...Life The last of the Monty Python films and not considered to be their best work, it is nonetheless a fine peice of groundbreaking, gross-out, off-the-wall comedic delight and if you have never seen it, hunt it down. Unlike previous Python offerings like Life of Brian and Holy Grail, MOL is more a return to the sketch based comedy roots of Flying Circus days. The film is split into acts, (birth, middle-age, death that sort of thing) but is essentially ...
...and songs. Before the film proper is a marvellous, bizzare mini B-featire directed by Terry Gilliam about a group of chartered accountants whose building breaks free like a ship and sails the acountant-sea, it ends with a song and leaves you (not for the last time in MOL) in that state of mirth filled confusion so lacking in todays film industry. Films are not nearly annoying and confusing enougth nowadays. The first really good sketch that springs ... Read review

Advantages: Genius
Disadvantages: Slows to the end

...obscure humour that made the Monty Python gang the king of comedy that they are today. Pure Genius! I his takes you through the many stages of life from birth through killing people to death. My favourite bit in the whole film is the Every Sperm Is Sacred scene which will be forever etched into my memory as one of the greatest movie moments of all time. A load of great sketched punctuated by the well-known Gilliam animation does, in my opinion, slow ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent special features, a must for all die-hard Python fans.
Disadvantages: Not as funny as their previous feature films, humour is a bit crude.

...and the, lo and behold, Monty Python decide to pick up where those philosophers left off. Being a big Monty Python fan, I decided I had to buy this, for the sake of my own sanity! So I perched it on my shelf in between Holy Grail and A Life of Brian and saved it up for a special occassion. Following a particularly bad day at work, and the impending doom of a new term at Uni looming ahead of me, I felt now was the right moment. With mounting trepidation, ...
...Sacred" and "The Universe Song". Monty Python is generally stupid and mindless, but in an utterly amazingly humorous way, but I found a lot of "Meaning of Life" was just stupid and mindless full stop. For example, Eric Idle takes us on a long walk at the end, which is all but pointless, Mr. Creosote only really serves to gross out the audience without being all that funny and so on. Don't get me wrong, the film isn't bad as such, I think it is just ... Read review