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The Meaning of Life
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
UK 1979
produced by John Goldstone for Celandine Films, the Monty Python Partnership/Universal
directed by Terry Jones
starring Monty Python (= Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin), Carol Cleveland, Simon Jones, Patricia Quinn, Judy Loe, Andrew MacLachlan, Mark Holmes, Valerie Whittington, Jennifer Franks, Imogen Bickford-Smith, Angela Mann, Peter Lovstrom, George Silver, Chris Grant, Sydney Arnold, Guy Bertrand, Andrew Bicknell, Ross Davidson, Myrtle Dervenish, Tim Douglas, Eric Francis, Matt Frewer, Billy John, Russell kilmister, Peter Mantle, Len Marten, Peter Merrill, Cameron Miller, Gareth Milne, Larry Noble, Paddy Ryan, Leslie Sarony, John Scott Martin, Eric Stovell, wally Thomas, Jack Armstrong, Robert Carrick, Douglas Cooper, George Daly, Chick Fowles, Terry Grant, Robin Hewlett, Tommy Isley, Juba Kennerley, Tony Lang, John Murphy, Terry Rendell, Ronald Shilling, Albert Welch
written by Monty Python (= Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin), music by John Du Prez
Monty Python
review by Mike Haberfelner
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After Monty Python made two (somewhat) story-based films,
Monty Python and the
Holy Grail and Life of Brian,
The Meaning of Life was a trip back to the roots, the film's
episodic structure with the seperate sketches only just held together by
an overall theme being highly reminiscent of their TV-series Monty
Python's Flying Circus, but done on a significantly higher budget.
Thsi time around, the overall theme is, as the title might suggest, the
meaning of life, and after an opening segment about old office employees
of a big business company taking over their company building and turning
it into a pirate ship that has nothing to do whatsoever with the meaning
of life, there are sketches dealing with all segments of life, birth
(including a skit about Catholic couples who have to have children
everytime they have sex), growing up and school (including sex education
class with the teacher [John Cleese) having actual sex with his wife in
front of the whole class and a very brutal rugby game), war, organ
donation, the fattest man alive (Terry Jones) - and how he explodes -, the
very private philosophy of a french waiter (Eric Idle), Death (who picks
up his latest crop at a dinner party in a segment reminiscent of The
Seventh Seal), and of course life after death (which looks like a
cheap Las Vegas style revue shot).
In direct comparison to Monty Python's Flying Circus, the
film might lack the TV-shows spontaneity - which is partly to blame on its
significantly higher budget -, but the film still manages to fuse
surrealism, social and political satire and the occasional sight gag into
a consciously silly whole and shouldn't be missed by anyone who even
remotely likes Monty Python.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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