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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

1983

Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle ...

7.3

28,978

Comedy. Musical Why are we here, what's it all about? The Monty Python-team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do so by exploring the various stages of life, starting with birth. A doctor seems more interested in his equipment than in delivering the baby or caring for the mother, a Roman Catholic couple have quite a lot of children because 'every sperm is sacred'. In the growing and learning ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It's a barbed, uncompromising attack on generally observed community standards (...) Does the attack work? Only occasionally (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Robert Osborne The Hollywood Reporter	"Unbelievably crass. And extremely funny"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'Monty Python's the Meaning of Life'' is funny but, being unreasonable, I wish it were funny from start to finish."	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Excessive and self-indulgent it's true but still the Pythons at their worst are still worth a look (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Keith Staskiewicz Entertainment Weekly	"It boasts some of the strangest, darkest, most visually arresting and discomfiting material [the Monty Python] ever produced"	POS

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