Monty Python's the Meaning of Life  
Starring: Carol ClevelandMatt FrewerSimon JonesAndrew MaclachlanMonty Python
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2008-05-27
An absolutely briliant film, get the collector's edition and laugh like you've never laughed before!

If you've seen the film before you know it is irreverent, hilarious, contravercial, and involves the best pre-main feature feature you'll ever see in any DVD!

If you lived in London durring the early eighties you will reminisce whimsically as the cast film on location accross the city.

If you've never seen the film before you'll wonder how they ever got it made, and ask yourself "Why oh why can't I get more comedies like this and less like ".

Trust me, you've never met me but you must see this film....
2008-04-21
A must have for Python fans. Is there really anything else I need to say?

a fish, a fish, a fishy fish.
2008-03-19
Most people I talk to seem to either have Life of Brian or Holy Grail as their favorite. I was always alone in having this one as my favorite. Sure, it's a bit awkward (has no sequitar storyline). It's pretty much a long Flying Circus episode, but it has some of the best skits. Plus, its style kind of stands out. It's more macabre comedy than the others. There's classics like the machine that goes "ping!", Mr. Creosote, and every sperm is sacred. And really, I always thought the Pythons were better at sketch comedy.
2008-02-25
I laughed just as much as I did the first twenty times I saw it - great stuff!
2008-02-19
The Pythons do a good job on this one, with bigger production bucks and more effects, etc.
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Perhaps only the collective brilliant minds of the Monty Python film and television troupe are up to the task of tackling a subject as weighty as the Meaning of Life. Sure, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and their ilk have tried their hands at this puzzler, but only Python has attempted to do so within the commercial motion picture medium. Happily for us all, Monty Python's the Meaning of Life truly explains everything one conceivably needs to know about the perplexities of human existence, from the mysteries of Catholic doctrine to the miracle of reproduction to why one should avoid the salmon mousse to the critical importance of the machine that goes ping! Using fish as a linking device (and what marvelous links those aquatic creatures make), The Meaning of Life is presented as a series of sketches: a musical production number about why seed is sacred; a look at dining in the afterlife; the quest for a missing fish (there they are again); a visit from Mr. Death; the cautionary tale of Mr. Creosote and his rather gluttonous appetite; an unflinching examination of the harsh realities of organ donation, and so on. Sadly, this was the last original Python film, but it's a beaut. You'll laugh. You'll cry (probably because you're laughing so hard). You may even learn something about the Meaning of Life. Or at least about how fish fit into the grand scheme of things. --Jim Emerson



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Release Date:2005-08-23
Theatre Release:1983-03-31
Running Time:108 Minutes
Studio:Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Publisher:Universal Studios Home Entertainment
ISBN:1417067373
Label:Universal Studios Home Entertainment


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