Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Hilarious as some mythical Briton heroes embark on a comedic misadventure to retrieve the Holy Grail.
2 December 1940, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
9 December 1944, Danbury, Essex, England, UK
29 March 1943, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
16 June 1916, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1 February 1942, Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK
27 October 1939, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
December 02, 2015
A fresh look at the ultimate mock epic, after the Python method has been assimilated into the cultural DNA, reveals the subversive spirit of this bloody and cynical Arthurian deconstruction.
November 24, 2014
Watching it, it's hard to believe that these guys were actually meandering across heaths and trudging across rope bridges, with electricians and caterers not far away. It seems more as if this souvenir of the Absurd Ages has... existed for a millennium.
March 29, 2011
Grail is as funny as a movie can get, but it is also a tough-minded picture -- as outraged about the human propensity for violence as it is outrageous in its attack on that propensity.
November 18, 2013
This remains a wonderfully inventive comedy that brilliantly debunks the Dark Ages and legends of chivalry.
September 04, 2008
Monty Python's Flying Circus, the British comedy group which gained fame via BBC-TV, send-up Arthurian legend, performed in whimsical fashion with Graham Chapman an effective straight man as King Arthur.
November 18, 2013
Here is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which is neither as sparkling as it is said to be nor as bad as it seems to be at the start. But it's pretty good.
June 24, 2006
Python's delightful and, on the whole, consistent reductio ad absurdum of the Grail legend.
March 29, 2011
Silly, sophomoric, and slapped together -- but would you want it any other way?
October 15, 2015
The material is superb, Neil Innes' music is tremendous and Gilliam's animations are timelessly brilliant.
November 26, 2012
Monty Python and the Holy Grail may be 26 years old, but even in the fast-moving world of pop culture, it's no relic. It's still the Holy Grail of crazy comedy.
October 13, 2015
So unnecessarily gorgeous, there are moments where it feels like Tarkovsky with drag and farting.
November 18, 2013
The Python team's surreal take on the legend of Camelot bursts with inspired lunacy.
