always be loved or hated depending on your personality. And this is Monty Python at its typical best. If you like daft jokes, killer fluffy animals, bad accents and intelligent discussions that will most likely go over your head the first time round, then you will love The Holy Grail. ...
The Python troupe leapt to the movies in 1971 withAnd Now Something Completely Different. However, this amounted to little more than a collection of sketches from the series’ first two seasons, reshot for the film screen. 1975’sMonty Python and the Holy Grailturned into Python’s first orig...
There are a handful of references to Ingmar Bergman’s existential masterpieceThe Seventh SealinMonty Python and the Holy Grail, like the witch-burning, the flagellation, and the Swedish subtitles in the jokey opening credits. But the Pythons’ greatest spoof ofThe Seventh Sealis inThe Meaning o...
However, it was the team’s first first ‘proper’ film that saw them heading deep into horror territory. 1974’sMonty Python and the Holy Grailis a sketch-based retelling of the Arthurian myth, done in a very dark, atmospheric manner. The humour remains archetypal Python – needlessly argum...