Life of Brian (1979)
Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe them. Brian who is born on the original Christmas, in the stable next door, spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
24 January 1930, Wanganui, New Zealand
7 December 1937, Manchester, England, UK
16 April 1918, Ahmednagar, Bombay Presidency, British India
22 November 1940, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
1946, Dudley, Worcestershire, England, UK
1 February 1942, Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK
14 April 1949, London, England, UK
27 October 1939, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
5 May 1943, Ranmoor, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
19 February 1939, Derby, England, UK
February 06, 2014
Only a select few of [Monty Python's] truest fans will appreciate the message they convey in a movie that actively mocks the concept of organized religion while making us laugh along with them.
December 31, 2010
Sandaled Python pic too irreverent for young kids.
February 09, 2006
Python successfully lampoon religious attitudes rather than religion itself.
September 11, 2009
Brian contains too many hilarious bits to single out the best.
August 01, 2004
The Pythons are enlightened jesters, whose scorn is reserved for those who persist in walking in darkness.
July 31, 2008
Just as wacky and imaginative as their earlier film outings.
June 18, 2004
Funny, in that peculiar British way where jokes are told sideways, with the obvious point and then the delayed zinger.
May 09, 2005
Bad taste of this order is rare but not yet dead.
May 10, 2012
It looked back 2000 years for its comic content, but was a decade ahead in provoking Christian controversy. Yet how much hotter would the steaming Pilate of blasphemy-accusations have got if the Pythons had included their scripted mockeries of Zionism?
April 07, 2008
Boys of my generation memorize the Monty Python repertoire as a buttress against the terror of losing their virginity.
September 11, 2009
I've always considered it the group's nadir; it seems toothlessly silly.
October 13, 2010
It's a Mel Brooks kind of Jewish joke film made by gentiles.
