Monty Python And The Holy Grail DVD > Reviews

Advantages: Everything other than the ending
Disadvantages: The ending

Well, what can I say? Pure genius. If you haven't seen this film, you're sure to have seen it's influence. One major example is the Peperami adverts ("come here a finish me off") - pure Black Knight. The basic plot... ( you mean there's a plot? -yes of course there's a plot! nobody ever told me about there being a plot -get on with it --yes! get on with it!! ) As I was saying, the basic plot of the film revolves around one King Arthur ... Read review

Advantages: it's really funny
Disadvantages: it can get quite confusing

Monty Python, how do you come up with such funny comedy's. Even though your film making is dead, you can still make people laugh with your hilarous HOLY GRAIL. Monty Python just has to be the funnest team in history.With their three major films, Monty Pyphon and the holy grail, the meaning of life and the life of Brian every one knows their just the best. Now if you haven't seen the film yet what the hell are you doing reading this? Go get the film ... Read review

Advantages: Python
Disadvantages: The ending

Makes Ben Hur look like an Epic. They said it. King Arthur and his knights embark on their God given quest to find a big golden cup. The knights should the land and are confronted by such foes as a man eating rabbit, the Black Knight, a big scary monster and the promise of oral sex. Ground breaking special effects, a huge cast and a production budget to rival any toilet cleaner ad, make this a must see. The only down side to this film is that the ... Read review

Advantages: inventive, funny, absurd
Disadvantages: none

A foggy hill. The sound of horseshoes hitting the ground. Suddenly, you see the horse. Or rather, you see everything but the horse. King Arthur and his follower appear, the first waves his arm in front of him , as if he were running a lead, the second carries a big bag, and holds 2 halves of a coconut, which imitate the sound of a horse. At the very begining of the film, you get incredibly surprised, and you can't but laugh. Actually, you already ... Read review

Advantages: Funny,
Disadvantages: Wierd Ending

...is yet another amazingly funny Monty Python film. The Holy Grail retells the famous story. King Arthur collects several knights and joins up to go and search for the Holy Grail. However they face many perils along the way including a killer rabbit, knights who say 'ni', taunting Frenchman and many other adventures. Highlights are the two songs about the knights and not so brave Sir Robin. Non stop comedy from credits to end, no joke is left out and ... Read review

Advantages: Python excellence, very very very very funny
Disadvantages: I refuse to accept it has any.

This is one of those films that you watch again and again, learn eavery line and irritate people at dinner partys with by repeating it verbotem. This is a film to be placed permanently in FRONT of your video recorder so that every time you use your VCR you consider watching this first before anything else. It was the Pythons first proper film after the Flying Circus TV series and is essentially just a collection of sketches set in the Middle Ages ... Read review

Advantages: the shere hilarity of it
Disadvantages: it has to end

...have been adicted to the monty python trilogy. This has to be one of the funniest films I have ever watched and I thouroughly recomend it to anyone who has the oppourtunity to watch it. The comedy never lets up and the usual monty python hmour is ever present all the way through the film. The film includes several of the legendary knights of the round table such as Lancelot the brave sir Gallahad the pure and in true monty python style it includes ... Read review

Advantages: Wonderfully funny
Disadvantages: Maybe not as funny the 564th time :)

Monty Python are one of the classic comedy teams in this country's history. In the days of their TV series they brought ground-breaking humour, quickly gathering a cult following due to their status as one of the funniest shows of the time. Irreverent, witty, sometimes silly, but very, very funny. Even today their sketches are still quoted parrot-fashion up and down the country, to the delight of other fans and the bemusement of others :) "The ... Read review

Advantages: Classic Python of hit & miss gags, pure escapism, nice story
Disadvantages: limited budget all too obvious, runs out of steam near end, uneven midsection

A marvellous film that will have anyone with a slightly silly disposition fall in love with. Its typical Python from the the TV series, with rapid irreverent clips interlacing the rather scatty story of Arthur looking for the Holy Grail. Of course a lot of criticism was directed at the apparently limp & sudden ending, with perhaps audiences expecting a punchline to appear shortly after but was never forthcoming. Its true that the ending was a little ... Read review

Advantages: Very funny, some wonderful gags, and you'll be quoting bits at friends for ages.
Disadvantages: Very disappointing ending.

...know what to expect from Monty Python. Surreal animations, some jokes that will have you splitting your sides, and some that will just leave you cold. That's pretty much what you can expect from the Holy Grail. There isn't that much plot to speak of. King Arthur has been charged by God to find the Holy Grail (this much, at least, matches the more traditional tellings of the King Arthur tales). But this is Python, so there are a number of amusing ... Read review

Advantages: Hilarious
Disadvantages: Not all of it works

"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was the first attempt by the team to fit their humour into a narrative format, and somewhat to my surprise it works perfectly. The story is familiar enough - Graham Chapman's King Arthur rounds up a group of knights to enter Camelot - "a silly place" that's "only a model" - and find the Holy Grail. It doesn't work out, and the knights have to fight nymphomaniacs, strange beasts and, worst of all, Terry Gilliam animations ... Read review

Advantages: Surreal, fantasy, random, hilarious.
Disadvantages: The ending still annoys me!

SYNOPSIS: A mish-mash of Arthurian legend brought together in the quest for the holy grail. King Arthur rides the land to find knights to join his cause, and then finally begins the journey. Without giving much away, they get into every imaginable peril on the way and lots of laughs are had including: A wooden rabbit A psychotic rabbit! Some over the top French knights The black knight Terry Gilliams fantastic animation (old style!) A castle ... Read review