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Genre | Comedy |
Format | NTSC, Special Edition, Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Subtitled, Color, Widescreen, Closed-captioned |
Contributor | Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael White, Michael White Productions; National Film Trustee Company Limited; Python (Monty) Pictures Limited, John Cleese, Mark Forstater See more |
Language | English, Japanese |
Runtime | 1 hour and 32 minutes |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Ni! Ni! Ni! Relive the Comedy and all the hilarious and now most memorable moments and quotes from this satirical movie about King Arthur and the search for the Holy Grail.
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Graham ChapmanKing Arthur/Voice of God/Middle head/hiccoughing guard. |
John CleeseSecond Swallow-Savvy Guard / The Black Knight / Peasant 3 / Sir Launcelot the Brave / Taunting French Guard / Tim the Enchanter. |
Eric IdleDead Collector / Peasant 1 / Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot / First Swamp Castle Guard / Concorde / Roger the Shrubber / Brother Maynard. |
Terry GilliamPatsy / Green Knight / Old Man from Scene 24 (Bridgekeeper) / Sir Bors / Animator / Gorrilla Hand. |
The Black Knight Scene
Product Description
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your average medieval knights and horses story - for a start, due to a shortage in the kingdom, all the horses have been replaced by servants clopping coconuts together!
Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 ounces
- Item model number : 43396052765
- Director : Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam
- Media Format : NTSC, Special Edition, Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Subtitled, Color, Widescreen, Closed-captioned
- Run time : 1 hour and 32 minutes
- Release date : October 23, 2001
- Actors : Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
- Dubbed: : French, Portuguese
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Producers : Mark Forstater, Michael White
- Language : Japanese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B00005O3VC
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,993 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #246 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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Anyone who watches this movie is bound to go around quoting it and driving everyone they know mad until they also watch it and do the same to everyone that they know, etc.
A plus is that it is almost entirely appropriate save one extremely short scene.
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But I am probably biased because I loved basically everything they did.
relevant now in USA (worldwide) election time .... " ... I am your KING ... I didn't vote for you !!! ... "
Reviewed in Australia on August 1, 2020
relevant now in USA (worldwide) election time .... " ... I am your KING ... I didn't vote for you !!! ... "
ディスクに影響あるものではないので(端が少し割れてた)飲みます(笑)
日本語字幕、吹替有
日本版と変わりないと思います。
それでこの値段の違い(笑)
クリアオーリング付き、城壁デザインスペシャルBOX、映画のシーンを再現! 飛ばして遊べるフライングキット付き(飛ばして楽しいゴム製家畜付き)などの付属特典が必要なければこれで十分
僕はこれで十分です(笑)
新規映像特典、2015年トライベッカ映画祭にて、ニューヨークのビーコン・シアターでジョン・オリバーをホストに迎え行われた20分のQ&Aセッション、とても楽しかったです
Comedy is extremely subjective. What works for me might not work for others. If you examine the previous 61 titles in this 100 movies series, you won't find anything that is classified solely as a comedy. Films such as Amelie, As Good as It Gets and Midnight in Paris certainly have a great deal of comedic content, but they also contain dramatic elements.
It's not that I don't like to laugh or don't have a sense of humor, it's just unrealistic to me when a movie tries to tell a joke in every sentence. I'm too aware that I am being manipulated. Maybe it has something to do with my age, but I don't think it's funny watching people get hit in the genitals repeatedly or fail to make it to the bathroom in time. Innuendo or scatological humor ceased to make me laugh two or three decades ago. Physical humor can work, but it has to be executed well.
Why am I bothering to tell you this?
The six members of the Monty Python team make me laugh, despite using all of the techniques described above. I keep asking myself why that is, and I think it's a combination of things. The writing is superb and unpredictable. If I see a joke coming from a mile away, I'm not likely to find it funny. Even though most of Python's material is extremely silly, it has a kind of sophisticated brilliance.
Who else could reduce the Lady of the Lake myth to:
"Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government."
There's also the problem of acting ability and comic timing. Good writing can be ruined by poor execution. My favorite comedians can all act, and some of my favorite comedy comes from actors better known for dramatic roles. Something inside me rears up when people tell me they enjoyed Jack and Jill, Little Man or The Love Guru. If that's your kind of humor, you probably won't get much out of this review.
People like to laugh and that's why they love comedies. It's easy to watch and doesn't require much thought. There's no possibility that you'll look bad in front of your friends because you failed to understand the plot - if there is a plot. If you miss a joke, you can catch it again when they repeat it for the fourth or fifth time. Most dumb comedies run out of ideas in the first 45 minutes and struggle to approach the minimum expected running time that audiences will consider acceptable.
Here's a thought: if you spend your time and money watching terrible comedies, the studios think they should make more because it's obviously successful. It doesn't matter whether the audience liked the movie as long as they paid to be there. That money could have gone to serious filmmakers with something to say.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail is complete nonsense. There is hardly any plot. The jokes are frequent and silly. But, somehow, it all works.
The plot, such as it is, shows King Arthur trying to recruit knights for his Round Table at Camelot. When they finally get there, they decide it's a silly place. God gives them something to do instead, by charging them with the task of finding the Holy Grail. It's all just an excuse for a series of loosely related sketches. The plot is almost completely irrelevant.
The humor is bizarre and it's written with a strange kind of flawed logic. You'll discover how to tell whether someone is a witch or a king, why you should never allow Lancelot to attend weddings, and how deadly white rabbits can be. There are a few oddly-placed songs, but listen to the lyrics and you'll probably laugh. The budget was too small to pay for real horses, so they just used coconuts. Don't expect a proper resolution. The story just stops dead in its tracks.
I've loved the humor of Monty Python since I was a child. Every member is likeable and the six have been responsible for some of the most quotable sketches ever made. Whether it's dead parrots, cheese shops, lumberjacks, silly walks, Yorkshiremen or spam, it never gets old for me. John Cleese was also responsible for Fawlty Towers, which, despite only running for 12 episodes, is one of the best comedies ever made.
Monty Python isn't for everyone. It's a very particular kind of British humor that some just won't get at all. Like the movie itself, this review just stops dead in its tracks.