Film · 1975 · Fantasy
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
1975
United Kingdom
★ 7.9 editorial score
No comedy has been quoted more relentlessly for fifty years: the Pythons could not afford horses, banged coconuts instead, and turned the budget problem into the joke.
“"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" features the same kind of brilliant comic writing that characterized the best episodes of the television series. Everything, from Marxist rhetoric to scientific observations to religious doctrine, takes a beating. Most comedies saturate the audience with gags and jokes in the hope that one-third to one-half of the material might be funny. But, in "The Holy Grail", there's hardly an attempt at humor that fails.”
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