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| Monty Python and the Holy Grail -- Two-disc set [1974] | ![Monty Python and the Holy Grail -- Two-disc set [1974]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5167B9J6HXL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Actors: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Format: Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Latin (Original Language), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 86 minutes
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Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
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Release Date: March 4, 2002
Theatrical Release Date: May 10, 1975
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The second best comedy ever made, IMonty Python and the Holy Grail/I must give precedence only to the same team's masterpiece, IThe Life of Brian/I (1979). Even though most of this film's set-pieces are now indelibly inscribed in every Python fan's psyche, as if by magic they never seem to pall. And they remain endlessly, joyfully quotable: from the Black Knight ("It's just a flesh wound"), to the constitutional peasants ("Come and see the violence inherent in the system!") and the taunting French soldier ("Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"). Not forgetting of course the migratory habits of European and African swallows...p The film's mock-Arthurian narrative provides a sturdy framework for the jokes, and the authentic-looking production design is relentlessly and gloriously dirty. The miniscule budget turns out to be one of the film's greatest assets: Can't afford horses? Use coconuts instead. No money for special effects? Let Terry Gilliam animate. And so on, from Camelot ("it's only a model") to the rampaging killer rabbit glove puppet. True it's let down a little by a rushed ending, and the jokes lack the sting of ILife of Brian/I's sharply observed satire, but IHoly Grail/I is still timeless comedy that's surely destined for immortality.p BOn the DVD:/B Disc One contains a digitally remastered anamorphic (16:9) print of the film--which is still a little grainy, but a big improvement on previous video releases--with a splendidly remixed Dolby 5.1 soundtrack (plus an added 24 seconds of self-referential humour "absolutely free"!). There are two commentaries, one with the two Terrys, co-directors Jones and Gilliam, the other a splicing together of three separate commentaries by Michael Palin, John Cleese (in waspish, nit-picking mood) and Eric Idle. A "Follow the Killer Rabbit" feature provides access either to the Accountant's invoices or Gilliam's conceptual sketches. Subtitle options allow you to read the screenplay or watch with spookily appropriate captions from Shakespeare's IHenry IV, Part II/I.p The second disc has lots more material, much of it very silly and inconsequential (an educational film on coconuts, the Camelot song in ILego/I and so on), plus a long-ish documentary from 2001 in which Palin and Jones revisit Doune Castle, Glencoe and other Scottish locations. Perhaps best of all, though, are the two scenes from the Japanese version with English subtitles, in which we see the search for the Holy sake cup, and the Ni-saying Knights who want... bonsai! --IMark Walker/I
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 Very silly but only sporadically funny November 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I somehow got to the age of 47 without seeing this all the way through, and sat down to watch it with anticipation. However, I was a bit disappointed. Unlike Life Of Brian this is not really a film with a plot characters. Rather a series of themed sketches. Like most sketch shows it is a mixture of hit miss. Bits are indeed very funny, but while this style of humour was radical when the film came out it is all too common now and some of the weaker moments don't stand up so well. Of course it has a place in the pantheon of British comedy and I wouldn't discourage anyone from watching it, but for me it isn't a patch on Life of Brian, or even the Time Bandits.
The best comedy film you will ever see! August 11, 2008
This is an essential film for every singlr person on the planet and i am frankly shocked that anyone has given this film less than all 5 stars.
'We'r knights of the round table' July 23, 2008
After Monty Pythons flying circus finished the Pythons gradually got working on a film, this is it. Graham Chapman plays 'Arthur king of the Britons' while John Cleese, Erice Idle and the others play famous knights of the round table 'Sir Gallahad' for example. They're on a journey for the holy grail and the events that happen to them on there quest are so amazingly funny I begin to wonder wether the Pythons are a bunch of Comical aliens from another plant.br /I reccomend Holy Grail to anyone wishing to laugh there heads off after a boring day, depressing day or just for a laugh.
 Why only 4 stars instead of 5? July 17, 2008
Great film obviously, but be aware that the Region 2 DVD does not contain the original mono soundtrack. The newly created 5.1 audio has for some reason redubbed Michael Palin's voiceovers (most noticably in "Scene 24"). If you're as anal about Python as me (!), and you have a multi-region player, you should really go for the Region 1 DVD.
On second thoughts, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place. April 26, 2008
King Arthur is visited by the Lord Almighty who tells him to go on a quest to find the Holy Grail. Arthur wastes no time in rounding up the silliest Knights of the realm and embarking on a bizarre journey around England, encountering fierce enemies, sex mad nymphs and a killer rabbit.br /br /Although Monty Python's Life of Brian is considered their finest film by the critics, The Holy Grail provides me with more laugh out loud moments. It is as throughly ridiculous as Terry Gilliam's animations that pop up from time to time. From the man trying to get rid of his almost dead father to the Knight who won't admit defeat even after being dismembered ("It's just a flesh wound!") to the nonsensical witch trial ("What floats on water?" [answer] "Churches!"), the Pythons gift for perfectly timed comedy bombs never falters. Endlessly quotable ("We shall say Ni! again to you, if you do not appease us." or "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!") and packed with silly sight gags like the cattle catapult, they certainly don't make them like this anymore.br /br /Like this? Try: Monty Python's Life of Brian.
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