Best Monty Python Movie

[Love]

But its a collection of scenes remade to fit as a movie...

 

[Brighteye]

Every sperm is sacred
Every sperm is good
Every sperm is needed
In your neighbourhood

 

[Jawz II]

Holy Grail hands down.

John Gleeses french 'kinigilit' cursing them out from the tower had me rolling around laughing. The knights who say "NII" and "none shall pass" are also classics.

Comedy gold right there.

 

[Trafalgar]

The Holy Grail. Always brings a smile to my face, even when I know what they're going to say.

 

[philippe]

jabberwocky was a monthy python movie too i thought

but i voted for holy hand... uhm grail

 

[Yuri2356]

Why are we here?
What's life all about?
Is god really real?
Or is there some doubt?

Well tonight we are going to sort it all out.
'cause tonight, it's the Meaning of Life!



I mean, come on guys, Pirate Accountants!

 

[Trafalgar]

jabberwocky was a monthy python movie too i thought

but i voted for holy hand... uhm grail

I have always considered it a Terry Gilliam movie - with Python actors.

 

[downtown]

I used to think that Holy Grail was the funniest movie ever. However, the older I get, the more unwatchable it becomes. I guess I'm turning away from "nerd humor".

I never saw Life of Brian, and I never cared too much more meaning of life. I enjoyed the tv show better.

 

[Kennigit]

Holy grail for me hands down.

Life of Brian was good, with some great scenes in there (particularly last 5 minutes, great ending).

And now time for something completely different was great, but Holy Grail is the best movie ever IMO.

 

[innonimatu]

The point was that there was a very obvious way for Brian to escape: he could pretend to be a carpenter.
But he didn't. Monty Python chose the less obvious way for Brian to escape. That was the joke.

I think it should simply be edited out. Terry Jones admitted it was a deus ex machina, inspired by the success of Star Wars at the time. If they had to have an impossible scape, they decided to have a "totally ludicrious" one.

They should have used those 3 minutes to put the Otto sketch in:

[Otto] - Hail, leader.
[Brian] - What?!
- Oh, I'm so sorry, Have you seen the new leader? I wish to find him and hail him.
- Who are you?
- My name is Otto.
- Oh, Otto... Well, I'not sure -
- Oh, I grow so impatient, you know, to see the leader that has been promised our people for so many centuries, the leader who will save Israel by riding it of the scum of non-jewish people, making it pure, no foreigners, no rifraf, no gypsies....
- Shh, Otto...
- What, the leader? Hail, leader!
- No, no, it's dangerous...
- Dangerous? This is no danger. Man! [man march in] Impressive, eh?
- Yes.
- Oh, yes! We are a fairly trained suicide squad.
- Oh.
- Oh, yes. We can commit suicide within 20 seconds.
- 20 seconds?
- You don't believe me?
- Yes!
- I think you question me.
- nonono...
- I can see you do not believe me.
- No no, I do.
[Otto] - Enough. I prove it to you. Squad!
[Squad, chorus] - Hail, leader!
- Commit suicide!
- ...twothree onetwothree onetwothree one... aghhh...
[Otto] - See?
[Brian] - Yes
- I think now you believe me, yes?
- Yes, very impressive.
- I think now I prove it to you, hah?
- Yes.
- All dead. Not one living. He's dead [pointing], and he's dead, see? I thread on him. And he's dead, and he's dead. They're all dead. All dead good jewish boys no foreigners! But their names will live for ever! Helmut, Johnny, the middle guy... and the other fat one. They're names will live eventually forever.
[noises among the fallen man]
[Otto] - Wait a minute! There's someone here who is not dead! There's someone here who is only pretending to be dead! Stand up you! [kicks a body] [Ow!] Who said ow? You're not dead either! Neither are you! Stand up, stand up! You're not dead! Oh, my head. Stand up, stand up, all of you. Oh, my head, is not even one dead?!
[soldier, mumbles] - Yes, sir, not one...
- Why not?
- We thought it was a practice, sir.
- But all the bleeding, and the groaning?
- A little secreted sheep's bladders, sir.
- Oh, my cock! Sheep's bladders?! You are sour, a non-semitic mutinous racially impure clotied bunch of roman lovers! Tomorrow, as a punishment, you will all eat... pork sausages!
- Oh, no...
[Otto] - All right, tell the leader we are ready to die for him the moment ze gives the sign.
[Brian] - What sign?
- The sign that is the sign. That shall be the sign. Man!... fooorward!
[Squad, chorus]
There's a man we call our leader,
He's fine and strong and brave.
and we follow him unquestioning,
towards an early grave.
He gives us hope of sacrifice,
and a chance to die in vain.
And if we are one of the lucky ones,
we will live to die again!
[Brian] - Silly bugger!

 

[Arwon]

Meaning of Life. It has more of my favourite moments than the others.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

The Holy Grail by far.

 

[Godwynn]

The Holy Grail, with the Meaning of Life being a close second.

 

[EconomistBR]

Holy Grail is the best!!!

My favourite scene from any of the films is Constitutional Peasants from the Holy Grail.

I know the Bloody Peasant is my favorite movie scene ever, seriously. IMO it's brilliant, a lesson on democracy.

Bloody Peasant

"Listen, stange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government"

"You can't expect to yield supreme executive power, just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!"

Other scenes from the Holy Grail at Youtube:

"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"

The Bridge Of Death

 

[Evie]

Holy Grail whichever way one looks at it.

 

[Che Guava]

Meaning of Life is my favourite by far...the whole death sequence always makes me laugh!

Life of Brian is a close second (btw, I thought the alien scene was really inspired!)

Holy Grail comes in last..pretty funny, but I find it nearly unwatchable now..

 

[Love]

best scenes of all movies:

Meaning of life: Ofcourse the Grim Reaper, or the chapter Death.

Life of brian: The old tortured prisoner who yells "you bloody bastard" all the time.

Holy grail: The bridge keeper.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The Life of Brian had great potential, but Life of Brian went 100 percent straight downhill into unwatchable stupidity the moment Brain that had been abducted by aliens. I have no idea why Monty Python went to such elaborate lengths to ruin their own movie, but they nevertheless found the resolve. The Meaning of Life is better than the Life of Brian, and perhaps a bit more profound, but the Holy Grail will always be way more funny than both movies.

The alien spaceship was probably the best part! Total insanity in an already crazy movie!

For the record, my favorite is Life of Brian. Not to trivialize the others, of course.

 

[warpus]

I vote Meaning of Life, just because I saw it for the first time on shrooms and it changed my life.

 

[Japanrocks12]

The Life of Brian by a longshot.