Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

 


Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

“God be praised.”

“Good idea O Lord. “

“Of course it's a good idea.”
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail


There is something uniquely special about being one of the most elaborate LARPing (Live-action role-playing) campaigns that you have ever seen, or will ever see for that matter. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a quintessential example of how to do comedy that respects itself as much as it respects the subject matter it’s lampooning. In every well-designed sketch throughout Holy Grail that comedy is an education, In both the comedic sense and the historical sense.
That though may even be going too far. It may be taking Monty Python and the Holy Grail too seriously for its own good. That isn't to say that we shouldn't take comedies seriously. All I'm saying is, you do not need to take them seriously in order to gain their full measure of importance to the societal framework of filmic satire and popular zeitgeist at the time. In other words, if something is funny, it can just be funny and there's no need to look beyond that. In all honesty, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a tremendous joyful and hilarious experience from end to end. This vision for the Authorian legend succeeds as much through its humor as it does through tenacity with its confidence in history.
Now, by no means I'm I telling you that its history is anywhere near accurate. Though, what I am telling you is that it doesn't matter. Confidence is half the battle as they say, and Holy Grail has confidence in spades. The humor in Monty Python and the Holy Grail is bolstered by the historic backdrop and conversely the historic backdrop is magnified to a delightful degree by the humor. Thus, directors Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones with their team uproariously reimagined the tale of King Arthur and knights. Revealing that Camelot is indeed a "Silly place.”

Rated PG for crude humor, sexual references and mild language

I found Monty Python and the Holy Grail to be tremendously entertaining, uproariously charming and delightfully ridiculous. I hope in some way you do too.

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