Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Overview
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
Reviews (4)
Gimly (Rated: 6)
Doesn't hold up as well as some of Monty Python's other work, but there's enough classic moments in here to make it worthwhile watching.
Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go.
Filipe Manuel Neto (Rated: 4)
I expected much more: this film is a shadow of what it should have been.
I think it's redundant to say what everyone already knows: the Monty Python represents the pinnacle of British humor, and if each of those comedians is excellent alone, seeing them together is always an added bonus. This...
CinemaSerf (Rated: 6)
Well, I suppose if anyone was ever going to be able to get to grips with the meaning of life, it was going to be the “Monty Python” lads but for me their brand of comedy never really worked. This starts with it’s equivalent of a B-reel: a bunch of geriatric insurance processors who react with unexpe...
misubisu (Rated: 10)
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) Review: A Glorious, Unflinching 10/10 Finale
If Holy Grail was a medieval romp and Life of Brian a pointed satire, then The Meaning of Life is Monty Python's grand, chaotic, and philosophically unhinged thesis statement. It is their most ambi...
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