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- 1975
- PG
- 1 h 31 m
- 1975
- PG
- 1 h 31 m
Summary The Monty Python team are at it again in their second movie. This time we follow King Arthur and his knights in their search for the Holy Grail. This isn't your average medieval knights and horses story - for a start, due to a shortage in the kingdom, all the horses have been replaced by servants clopping coconuts together!
Directed By: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
- 1975
- PG
- 1 h 31 m
- 1975
- PG
- 1 h 31 m
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
8.5
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Summary The Monty Python team are at it again in their second movie. This time we follow King Arthur and his knights in their search for the Holy Grail. This isn't your average medieval knights and horses story - for a start, due to a shortage in the kingdom, all the horses have been replaced by servants clopping coconuts together!
Directed By: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
91
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
91
100% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Surely one of the funniest movies ever made. [12 Sept 2001, p.53]
It may lack the authority-baiting, satire-with-a-purpose edge of Life of Brian, but Holy Grail is the looser, sillier, ultimately funnier film, packed with actual goofy laughs rather than hey-I-get-that cleverness.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 407 User Ratings
8.5
90% Positive
367 Ratings
367 Ratings
6% Mixed
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
4% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 407 User Ratings
8.5
90% Positive
367 Ratings
367 Ratings
6% Mixed
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
4% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
A cult classic and remarkable comedy. Monty Python were amazing and I liked the black humor, ideas and cast. A lot of it entered pop culture history as “the holy hand grenade”, “the battle with the black knight” or “the coconuts”. Like the title suggest it is the search for the holy grail by King Arthur and his knights. Of cause it is the Monty Python version with parody, satire, black humor and it is hilariously funny. I should warn you that the style of humor is not for everyone (but it is not the modern interpretation that it is **** However for me and my circle of friends it is an all time classic. We rewatch it from time to time and still enjoy it which became our definition for a “timeless classic”. The Monty Python team consisting of Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, John Cleese and Michael Palin directed, wrote and played most roles. This made it certain that they got their unique style right. As side note: Some say the movie is a bit episodic especially in the first half which is not wrong. Because they got not everything funded they had to film in stages. Also a lot of famous people sponsored them like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. The rest was history as the movie became a success and earned a great reputation. I think it has some weaknesses or lets say it is not as much polished as their later movies but give a 10/10 no matter what.
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Nobody ever placed brilliance in the service of silliness quite the way the Python gang did. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is stuffed with both.
It's one heck of a basis for a funny movie.
Working "lobbed" and "scimitar" into that same sentence hovers near the empyrean of genius.
Silly, sophomoric, and slapped together, but would you want it any other way?
If someone says there is no such a thing as stupid but genius, well Monty Python And The Holy Grail is the great example of it, the movie is incredibly hilarious, ridiculously stupid, they all breaking the rules, and it's fun, it's entertaining, and it's just such a happy movie, it's a movie that not only will make you laugh if you love comedy or want to be laugh, it can be more than that, and if anybody make this such a movie again, it's either be the Monty Python or no others, Monty Python And The Holy Grail is a comedy genius, a stupid but genius film and a classic, and it's simply one of the best comedy ever, and so do one of mine.
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This has been a really weird experience which kinda made me think this was a really well done troll movie or a pretty average comedy movie. Some of the parts were pretty meh and it felt like the director was taking a huge amount of drugs before filming them which makes the humor get lost while others were genuine and funny as heck.I would suggest checking this out just because it is something fresh and unique in its own stupid way.
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Monty Python And The Holy Grail
It has an eerie comic tone that may not be palpable to everyone along with its way of conveying the tale, and once the audience goes past that, it would just be jibber-jabber that tickles here and there. The makers being aware of the vision throughout the course of it is what helps install these little moments that may surprise more than amuse someone. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones have done a decent work on some of the sequences while on some of it, they seemed a bit distracted. On performance level, the actors are hilarious among the supporting cast and even cameos, that marks their impression in a finite screen time. Monty Python And The Holy Grail is a feature that takes its joke very seriously and clears out the priorities within its first few minutes but considering as a whole project, it is unfortunately forgettable.
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Awards
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
European Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
DVD Exclusive Awards
• 1 Nomination
