"Life´s a piece of shit, when you look at it" goes a Monty Python song. There are times when a deep philosophical look at the meaning of life can yield full support for this short lyrical verse. We´ve certainly had our ups and downs. There are beautiful moments in each man or woman´s life that are never forgotten and always cherished. There are dark moments which we all wish we could forget. I´m fairly certain that each one of can ask the question "Why are we here and what´s life all about?" in either puzzlement, frustration or a desire to laugh our asses off at the 1983 comedy film by the Monty Python gang.
"Monty Python´s The Meaning of Life" is a series of comedy skits and musical numbers that strive to describe the complete cycle of life, from conception to death and every little bump in the road that lies between. Sex, birth, war, organ donorship, fine restaurants and death are principle subjects that are covered in the film´s not quite seven chapters that begins with a short film depicting old codger financial clerk´s setting sails on the financial high seas with their old brickwork building and bringing down the free world´s glass and steel structured financial institutes. Of course, with any proper Monty Python film, there are plenty of penis jokes, gratuitous shots of female breasts and attacks on anything decent.
Part of the fun and splendor of "Monty Pyhon´s The Meaning of Life" are the colorful and adult-humored songs. From the catchy "Every Sperm is Sacred" to "Isn´t It Awfully Nice to Have a Penis?" and finishing with the hilarious title song, "Monty Python´s The Meaning of Life" is easily the funniest damn musical you will ever have a chance to hear. All of the Monty Python films have had a few funny musical numbers, but "The Meaning of Life" easily bests either "Holy Grail" or "Life of Brian." The quote at the beginning of this review is actually from "Life of Brian," but perfectly suits the stories told by "The Meaning of Life" to try and answer the true question as to what really is the meaning of life.
The sketches are not particularly politically correct. In fact, they are just plain wrong. From the memorable beginning "short film" about "The Crimson Permanent Assurance" until the final moments, nothing is sacred. "Part I: The Miracle of Birth" details a hospital operating room where the doctors are more interested in impressing the executive staff of the hospital and impressing everybody than they are with the pregnant woman on the operating table. "The Miracle of Birth – Part II: The Third World" describes Roman Catholics as the Third World and their decisions against using birth control as a serious social problem where a wife almost unknowingly gives birth while doing the dishes and the family must send their children away for science experiments to survive.
After birth, "Part II: Growth and Learning" finds Michael Palin giving a rousing sermon to boys in a religious school. The lessons of the sermon are quite hilarious, unless you are deeply religious. The following scene finds John Cleese acting as a schoolteacher and the first pair of gratuitous tits as he performs sexual acts on his wife to educate his class, who are frighteningly uninterested. "Part III: Fighting Each Other" shows an inept sergeant attempting to perform drill and ceremonies and then finding Eric Idle suffering a flesh wound where his leg was removed by a tiger. They find the poor tiger and then question the tiger on his motives and whether or not he digested Idle´s leg.
The middle of the film gives way and offers up "Part IV: Middle Age." This short scene features lone Python American Terry Gilliam and John Cleese acting as a married couple and trying to order conversation from a menu. The "Part V: Live Organ Transplants" is hilarious in its bloodshedding and finds two paramedics forcefully removing a liver from an organ donor that is called upon for his organs before he dies. Both scenes that follow the odd "Middle of the Film" are vintage Python moments and show that incredible British humor that the six men excelled at.
"Part VI" is split into two parts. The first, "Part VI: The Autumn Years" features the hilarious song "Isn´t it Awfully Nice to Have a Penis?" and then moves along to the grotesque take on the sin of sloth and features the most impossibly rotund fellow eating, vomiting and ultimately exploding into bits of flesh and partly digested dinner. The second, "Part VIB: The Meaning of Life" features Terry Jones portraying a cleaning lady that is reminiscent of the peasant lady in "Holy Grail" and then being punished with a bucket of puke after stating a racist remark about Jews. This finishes up with Eric Idle portraying a French waiter and quaintly telling the audience to "F**k off."
The film concludes with a look at "Part VII: Death" and finds Graham Chapman being punished for his lifelong crime spree of making sexist references. His punishment is death by being chased by a plethora of terribly sexy and topless women having their breasts happily bounce behind him and fulfilling the promise by Eric Idle in the film´s introduction of providing lots of gratuitous tits. Oh, the irony. After Chapman´s character dies from falling off a cliff, Death visits the house of English upper class who have assembled for a dinner party. After Death brings about doom from salmon, everybody is seen at dinner as Graham Chapman sings "Christmas in Heaven" and the film concludes the theme music.
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Michael Palin were six very funny men. They relished in sexual humor when given the opportunity and this opportunity was given in spades by "Monty Pyton´s The Meaning of Life." If the word ´tits´ offends you, then this movie will greatly offend you. Every chance the crew had to show a lovely pair, they grace the screen. There are plenty of penis puns and dick jokes abound throughout the film. Sperm, ejaculation and other sexual innuendos are poorly hidden throughout the film. This is the most adult and perhaps most humorous of the old Monty Python films and while it is a collection of short sketches that creates a coherent motion picture, it weaves a funny story that helps to tackle the ageless question of the "Meaning of Life."
"Monty Python´s The Meaning of Life" is a series of comedy skits and musical numbers that strive to describe the complete cycle of life, from conception to death and every little bump in the road that lies between. Sex, birth, war, organ donorship, fine restaurants and death are principle subjects that are covered in the film´s not quite seven chapters that begins with a short film depicting old codger financial clerk´s setting sails on the financial high seas with their old brickwork building and bringing down the free world´s glass and steel structured financial institutes. Of course, with any proper Monty Python film, there are plenty of penis jokes, gratuitous shots of female breasts and attacks on anything decent.
Part of the fun and splendor of "Monty Pyhon´s The Meaning of Life" are the colorful and adult-humored songs. From the catchy "Every Sperm is Sacred" to "Isn´t It Awfully Nice to Have a Penis?" and finishing with the hilarious title song, "Monty Python´s The Meaning of Life" is easily the funniest damn musical you will ever have a chance to hear. All of the Monty Python films have had a few funny musical numbers, but "The Meaning of Life" easily bests either "Holy Grail" or "Life of Brian." The quote at the beginning of this review is actually from "Life of Brian," but perfectly suits the stories told by "The Meaning of Life" to try and answer the true question as to what really is the meaning of life.
The sketches are not particularly politically correct. In fact, they are just plain wrong. From the memorable beginning "short film" about "The Crimson Permanent Assurance" until the final moments, nothing is sacred. "Part I: The Miracle of Birth" details a hospital operating room where the doctors are more interested in impressing the executive staff of the hospital and impressing everybody than they are with the pregnant woman on the operating table. "The Miracle of Birth – Part II: The Third World" describes Roman Catholics as the Third World and their decisions against using birth control as a serious social problem where a wife almost unknowingly gives birth while doing the dishes and the family must send their children away for science experiments to survive.
After birth, "Part II: Growth and Learning" finds Michael Palin giving a rousing sermon to boys in a religious school. The lessons of the sermon are quite hilarious, unless you are deeply religious. The following scene finds John Cleese acting as a schoolteacher and the first pair of gratuitous tits as he performs sexual acts on his wife to educate his class, who are frighteningly uninterested. "Part III: Fighting Each Other" shows an inept sergeant attempting to perform drill and ceremonies and then finding Eric Idle suffering a flesh wound where his leg was removed by a tiger. They find the poor tiger and then question the tiger on his motives and whether or not he digested Idle´s leg.
The middle of the film gives way and offers up "Part IV: Middle Age." This short scene features lone Python American Terry Gilliam and John Cleese acting as a married couple and trying to order conversation from a menu. The "Part V: Live Organ Transplants" is hilarious in its bloodshedding and finds two paramedics forcefully removing a liver from an organ donor that is called upon for his organs before he dies. Both scenes that follow the odd "Middle of the Film" are vintage Python moments and show that incredible British humor that the six men excelled at.
"Part VI" is split into two parts. The first, "Part VI: The Autumn Years" features the hilarious song "Isn´t it Awfully Nice to Have a Penis?" and then moves along to the grotesque take on the sin of sloth and features the most impossibly rotund fellow eating, vomiting and ultimately exploding into bits of flesh and partly digested dinner. The second, "Part VIB: The Meaning of Life" features Terry Jones portraying a cleaning lady that is reminiscent of the peasant lady in "Holy Grail" and then being punished with a bucket of puke after stating a racist remark about Jews. This finishes up with Eric Idle portraying a French waiter and quaintly telling the audience to "F**k off."
The film concludes with a look at "Part VII: Death" and finds Graham Chapman being punished for his lifelong crime spree of making sexist references. His punishment is death by being chased by a plethora of terribly sexy and topless women having their breasts happily bounce behind him and fulfilling the promise by Eric Idle in the film´s introduction of providing lots of gratuitous tits. Oh, the irony. After Chapman´s character dies from falling off a cliff, Death visits the house of English upper class who have assembled for a dinner party. After Death brings about doom from salmon, everybody is seen at dinner as Graham Chapman sings "Christmas in Heaven" and the film concludes the theme music.
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Michael Palin were six very funny men. They relished in sexual humor when given the opportunity and this opportunity was given in spades by "Monty Pyton´s The Meaning of Life." If the word ´tits´ offends you, then this movie will greatly offend you. Every chance the crew had to show a lovely pair, they grace the screen. There are plenty of penis puns and dick jokes abound throughout the film. Sperm, ejaculation and other sexual innuendos are poorly hidden throughout the film. This is the most adult and perhaps most humorous of the old Monty Python films and while it is a collection of short sketches that creates a coherent motion picture, it weaves a funny story that helps to tackle the ageless question of the "Meaning of Life."
"Life´s a piece of shit, when you look at it" goes a Monty Python song. There are times when a deep philosophical look at the meaning of life can yield full support for this short lyrical verse. We´ve certainly had our ups and downs. There are beautiful moments in each man or woman´s life that are never forgotten and always cherished. There are dark moments which we all wish we could forget. I´m fairly certain that each one of can ask the question "Why are we here and what´s life all about?" in either puzzlement, frustration or a desire to laugh our asses off at the 1983 comedy film by the Monty Python gang.
"Monty Python´s The Meaning of Life" is a series of comedy skits and musical numbers that strive to describe the complete cycle of life, from conception to death and every little bump in the road that lies between. Sex, birth, war, organ donorship, fine restaurants and death are principle subjects that are covered in the film´s not quite seven chapters that begins with a short film depicting old codger financial clerk´s setting sails on the financial high seas with their old brickwork building and bringing down the free world´s glass and steel structured financial institutes. Of course, with any proper Monty Python film, there are plenty of penis jokes, gratuitous shots of female breasts and attacks on anything decent.
Part of the fun and splendor of "Monty Pyhon´s The Meaning of Life" are the colorful and adult-humored songs. From the catchy "Every Sperm is Sacred" to "Isn´t It Awfully Nice to Have a Penis?" and finishing with the hilarious title song, "Monty Python´s The Meaning of Life" is easily the funniest damn musical you will ever have a chance to hear. All of the Monty Python films have had a few funny musical numbers, but "The Meaning of Life" easily bests either "Holy Grail" or "Life of Brian." The quote at the beginning of this review is actually from "Life of Brian," but perfectly suits the stories told by "The Meaning of Life" to try and answer the true question as to what really is the meaning of life.
The sketches are not particularly politically correct. In fact, they are just plain wrong. From the memorable beginning "short film" about "The Crimson Permanent Assurance" until the final moments, nothing is sacred. "Part I: The Miracle of Birth" details a hospital operating room where the doctors are more interested in impressing the executive staff of the hospital and impressing everybody than they are with the pregnant woman on the operating table. "The Miracle of Birth – Part II: The Third World" describes Roman Catholics as the Third World and their decisions against using birth control as a serious social problem where a wife almost unknowingly gives birth while doing the dishes and the family must send their children away for science experiments to survive.
After birth, "Part II: Growth and Learning" finds Michael Palin giving a rousing sermon to boys in a religious school. The lessons of the sermon are quite hilarious, unless you are deeply religious. The following scene finds John Cleese acting as a schoolteacher and the first pair of gratuitous tits as he performs sexual acts on his wife to educate his class, who are frighteningly uninterested. "Part III: Fighting Each Other" shows an inept sergeant attempting to perform drill and ceremonies and then finding Eric Idle suffering a flesh wound where his leg was removed by a tiger. They find the poor tiger and then question the tiger on his motives and whether or not he digested Idle´s leg.
The middle of the film gives way and offers up "Part IV: Middle Age." This short scene features lone Python American Terry Gilliam and John Cleese acting as a married couple and trying to order conversation from a menu. The "Part V: Live Organ Transplants" is hilarious in its bloodshedding and finds two paramedics forcefully removing a liver from an organ donor that is called upon for his organs before he dies. Both scenes that follow the odd "Middle of the Film" are vintage Python moments and show that incredible British humor that the six men excelled at.
"Part VI" is split into two parts. The first, "Part VI: The Autumn Years" features the hilarious song "Isn´t it Awfully Nice to Have a Penis?" and then moves along to the grotesque take on the sin of sloth and features the most impossibly rotund fellow eating, vomiting and ultimately exploding into bits of flesh and partly digested dinner. The second, "Part VIB: The Meaning of Life" features Terry Jones portraying a cleaning lady that is reminiscent of the peasant lady in "Holy Grail" and then being punished with a bucket of puke after stating a racist remark about Jews. This finishes up with Eric Idle portraying a French waiter and quaintly telling the audience to "F**k off."
The film concludes with a look at "Part VII: Death" and finds Graham Chapman being punished for his lifelong crime spree of making sexist references. His punishment is death by being chased by a plethora of terribly sexy and topless women having their breasts happily bounce behind him and fulfilling the promise by Eric Idle in the film´s introduction of providing lots of gratuitous tits. Oh, the irony. After Chapman´s character dies from falling off a cliff, Death visits the house of English upper class who have assembled for a dinner party. After Death brings about doom from salmon, everybody is seen at dinner as Graham Chapman sings "Christmas in Heaven" and the film concludes the theme music.
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Michael Palin were six very funny men. They relished in sexual humor when given the opportunity and this opportunity was given in spades by "Monty Pyton´s The Meaning of Life." If the word ´tits´ offends you, then this movie will greatly offend you. Every chance the crew had to show a lovely pair, they grace the screen. There are plenty of penis puns and dick jokes abound throughout the film. Sperm, ejaculation and other sexual innuendos are poorly hidden throughout the film. This is the most adult and perhaps most humorous of the old Monty Python films and while it is a collection of short sketches that creates a coherent motion picture, it weaves a funny story that helps to tackle the ageless question of the "Meaning of Life."
"Monty Python´s The Meaning of Life" is a series of comedy skits and musical numbers that strive to describe the complete cycle of life, from conception to death and every little bump in the road that lies between. Sex, birth, war, organ donorship, fine restaurants and death are principle subjects that are covered in the film´s not quite seven chapters that begins with a short film depicting old codger financial clerk´s setting sails on the financial high seas with their old brickwork building and bringing down the free world´s glass and steel structured financial institutes. Of course, with any proper Monty Python film, there are plenty of penis jokes, gratuitous shots of female breasts and attacks on anything decent.
Part of the fun and splendor of "Monty Pyhon´s The Meaning of Life" are the colorful and adult-humored songs. From the catchy "Every Sperm is Sacred" to "Isn´t It Awfully Nice to Have a Penis?" and finishing with the hilarious title song, "Monty Python´s The Meaning of Life" is easily the funniest damn musical you will ever have a chance to hear. All of the Monty Python films have had a few funny musical numbers, but "The Meaning of Life" easily bests either "Holy Grail" or "Life of Brian." The quote at the beginning of this review is actually from "Life of Brian," but perfectly suits the stories told by "The Meaning of Life" to try and answer the true question as to what really is the meaning of life.
The sketches are not particularly politically correct. In fact, they are just plain wrong. From the memorable beginning "short film" about "The Crimson Permanent Assurance" until the final moments, nothing is sacred. "Part I: The Miracle of Birth" details a hospital operating room where the doctors are more interested in impressing the executive staff of the hospital and impressing everybody than they are with the pregnant woman on the operating table. "The Miracle of Birth – Part II: The Third World" describes Roman Catholics as the Third World and their decisions against using birth control as a serious social problem where a wife almost unknowingly gives birth while doing the dishes and the family must send their children away for science experiments to survive.
After birth, "Part II: Growth and Learning" finds Michael Palin giving a rousing sermon to boys in a religious school. The lessons of the sermon are quite hilarious, unless you are deeply religious. The following scene finds John Cleese acting as a schoolteacher and the first pair of gratuitous tits as he performs sexual acts on his wife to educate his class, who are frighteningly uninterested. "Part III: Fighting Each Other" shows an inept sergeant attempting to perform drill and ceremonies and then finding Eric Idle suffering a flesh wound where his leg was removed by a tiger. They find the poor tiger and then question the tiger on his motives and whether or not he digested Idle´s leg.
The middle of the film gives way and offers up "Part IV: Middle Age." This short scene features lone Python American Terry Gilliam and John Cleese acting as a married couple and trying to order conversation from a menu. The "Part V: Live Organ Transplants" is hilarious in its bloodshedding and finds two paramedics forcefully removing a liver from an organ donor that is called upon for his organs before he dies. Both scenes that follow the odd "Middle of the Film" are vintage Python moments and show that incredible British humor that the six men excelled at.
"Part VI" is split into two parts. The first, "Part VI: The Autumn Years" features the hilarious song "Isn´t it Awfully Nice to Have a Penis?" and then moves along to the grotesque take on the sin of sloth and features the most impossibly rotund fellow eating, vomiting and ultimately exploding into bits of flesh and partly digested dinner. The second, "Part VIB: The Meaning of Life" features Terry Jones portraying a cleaning lady that is reminiscent of the peasant lady in "Holy Grail" and then being punished with a bucket of puke after stating a racist remark about Jews. This finishes up with Eric Idle portraying a French waiter and quaintly telling the audience to "F**k off."
The film concludes with a look at "Part VII: Death" and finds Graham Chapman being punished for his lifelong crime spree of making sexist references. His punishment is death by being chased by a plethora of terribly sexy and topless women having their breasts happily bounce behind him and fulfilling the promise by Eric Idle in the film´s introduction of providing lots of gratuitous tits. Oh, the irony. After Chapman´s character dies from falling off a cliff, Death visits the house of English upper class who have assembled for a dinner party. After Death brings about doom from salmon, everybody is seen at dinner as Graham Chapman sings "Christmas in Heaven" and the film concludes the theme music.
Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Michael Palin were six very funny men. They relished in sexual humor when given the opportunity and this opportunity was given in spades by "Monty Pyton´s The Meaning of Life." If the word ´tits´ offends you, then this movie will greatly offend you. Every chance the crew had to show a lovely pair, they grace the screen. There are plenty of penis puns and dick jokes abound throughout the film. Sperm, ejaculation and other sexual innuendos are poorly hidden throughout the film. This is the most adult and perhaps most humorous of the old Monty Python films and while it is a collection of short sketches that creates a coherent motion picture, it weaves a funny story that helps to tackle the ageless question of the "Meaning of Life."
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