Monty Python and the Holy Grail [PG]

Whilst Arthur, King of the Britains, scours the land in search for knights to join him in his court at Camelot, he charged by God Himself with “a holy quest that will make you and your knights examples in these dark times”. Join Arthur and his brave knights: Sirs Lancelot, Gallahad, Robin, and Bedevere as they go forth in an epic crusade to find the Holy Grail. 

This has to be one of my all-time favourite comedy classics. It has absolutely no expiration date because it is clever comedy. Filled with vicious rodents, aggressive political serfs, beautiful temptresses, and certain death, Monty Python and the Holy Grail takes the Arthurian legend and simplifies as well as stains it. 

Arthur, King of the Britains, defeater of the Saxons and sovereign of all England is scouring the land, seeking knights to join him in his court at Camelot. Whilst he assembles his Knights of the Round Table, God Himself charges him with “a holy quest that will make them examples in these dark times.” And so begins the epic crusade of Arthur and his knights Sirs Lancelot, Gallahad, Robin, and Bedevere to find the Holy Grail. But the journey will be perilous, filled with danger, temptation, trickery, and certain death. 

The comedy styling of Monty Python is one of a kind and can never be recreated or topped! Absolutely all emphasis is placed on the humour in the script with the occasional wonderfully silly visual gag to bring down the level of sophistication and appeal to a wider audience. 

In Holy Grail the costumes are so-so, there are very limited special effects (the tiniest bit of cartoon animation), and all the humour comes from the screenplay, the script, and the performances. Seriously, there are too many memorable scenes from this movie, I could never be asked to pick out a favourite! Between the Black Knight who won’t give up a fight even with all his limbs cut off and the Three-Headed-Giant who misses a killing because it keeps arguing with itself, there is never, and I mean never a dull moment in this movie! 

All the central actors who make up the Monty Python Group play multiple roles, each a thousand yard leap more eccentric that the last. Starring John Cleese, Graham Chapman. Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, and Connie Booth, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a timeless classic comedy filled with action, adventure, arranged marriages, ferocious rodents, the French, Trojan Rabbits, coconuts, bloody swordfights, giants, musical numbers, swallows, half-breed sorcerers, fire and brimstone, monks, dead bodies, and ...SHRUBBERIES!!! 

Seriously, you simply cannot go your entire life without seeing this film at least once! It’s absolutely priceless!!!