Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life DVD
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Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life DVD

Production Year: 1983 - Comedy - Director: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over

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The Monty Python team get together for this last feature-length outing. The Pythons explain it all in this episodic, bawdy adventure as they satirise religion, birth control,...
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Life was always going to feel less ambitious and
less coherent than their cinematic masterpiece,
The Life of Brian. And inevitably given the
format, some sketches are better than others. But,
for a movie that has been much-maligned, The
Meaning of Life actually features some of the
Pythons' most memorable set-pieces: the exploding
Mr Creosote has to be the most wonderfully
grotesque creation of a team whose speciality was
the grotesque; while the sublime "Sperm Song"
mixes satire and lavish visual humour in a musical
skit of breathtaking audacity. Elsewhere, Eric
Idle produces another musical gem with "The
Universe Song" ("Pray that there's intelligent
life somewhere out in space / 'Cause there's
bugger all down here on earth!"), while the Grim
Reaper's appearance at an achingly tedious dinner
party is the Pythons doing what they do best:
mocking their own middle-class origins. Best of
all, perhaps, is Terry Gilliam's modest
introductory feature, "The Crimson Permanent
Assurance", a 20-minute epic tale of the little
men rebelling against the corporate system, a
theme and a visual style that foreshadows his own
masterwork, Brazil. Admittedly too many sketches
sacrifice subtlety for shock tactics (the organ
donation scene in particular requires a strong
stomach), but when this film works it's nothing
less than vintage Python. --Mark Walker
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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 dining in the afterlife; the quest for a
missing fish (there they are again); a visit from
Mr. Death; the cautionary tale of Mr. Creosote and
his rather gluttonous appetite; an unflinching
examination of the harsh realities of organ
donation, and so on. Sadly, this was the last
original Python film, but it's a beaut. You'll
laugh. You'll cry (probably because you're
laughing so hard). You may even learn something
about the Meaning of Life. Or at least about how
fish fit into the grand scheme of things. --Jim
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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 dining in the afterlife; the quest for a
missing fish (there they are again); a visit from
Mr. Death; the cautionary tale of Mr. Creosote and
his rather gluttonous appetite; an unflinching
examination of the harsh realities of organ
donation, and so on. Sadly, this was the last
original Python film, but it's a beaut. You'll
laugh. You'll cry (probably because you're
laughing so hard). You may even learn something
about the Meaning of Life. Or at least about how
fish fit into the grand scheme of things. --Jim
Emerson
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Review of Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life DVD by halstead123

Advantages: Funny, lots of extras
Disadvantages: remake

This DVD is the same as the original but many more extras. It is the six pythons at their best, the film is more of a number of sketches put together rather than following one person directly, it starts of with birth and ends with death, obviously not that simple and obviously extremely funny as it was made by the pythons. Although some of the pythons are not completely happy with the finished product i am, and if it was made any better i feel i ...
...probably hooked up to the machine that goes PING! (you will get it if you watch the film) If you wich to find out more about the film and watch the pythons doing more funny things then i seriously suggest you watch all of the extras so you can get the full enjoyment from it. The different sections of the film are- Birth- in a hospital, with john cleese and graham chapman as the doctors, what make this funny is it may take a couple of views to pick ... Read review

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Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life DVD

Main specs

Actor(s): Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

Director(s): Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam

Genre: Comedy

Classification: 15 years and over

Production Year: 1983

Running Time: 4 hours 7 minutes

Franchise Name: Monty Python

Video Category: Feature Film

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

Release details

DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)

Studio(s): UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK; UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS

Release date: 15/05/2006

No of Discs: 1

Catalogue No: 8242586

Barcode: 5050582425864

Languages

Main Language: English

DVD Description

The Monty Python team get together for this last feature-length outing. The Pythons explain it all in this episodic, bawdy adventure as they satirise religion, birth control, British politics, Americans, hospitals and of course sex. Amongst the highlights are the 'Every Sperm Is Sacred' episode that starts off the film, and the grim reaper visiting a bourgeois dinner party where there are some fishy goings on, and the gross Mr Creosote.

Technical information

Aspect Ratio: Wide Screen

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Professional reviews

Review: ...A monumental revue, the BEN HUR of sketch films... (New York Times, )

...Funny....The seasoned British comedy troupe has this time come up with an expertly biting, off-the-wall satire of life's various passages... (Variety, )

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