1st Time Watching "Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life" | MOVIE REVIEW

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[@charleshowie2074]

You lose 200 points for stopping the intro and tripple checking you were watching a Monty Python film.

[@ericj166]

- that was hilarious, I agree

[@philwilde5076]

Rutles. John Lennons favourite film.

[@TerribleEnglish]

Nobody should have to suffer through that tedious, unfunny bit, to be fair.

[@charleshowie2074]

@TerribleEnglish Not merely tedious, but unfunny, too? Remarkable! Are you a non-adult, who is also a child? Or a Chinese person who is simultaneously Asian by any chance?

[@andywrong3247]

It's got pythons hallmark written all over it the last of the trilogy, is it a bird , is it a plane no its Spencer being daft again ,I pity the fool,what I'm I watching,lets half pretend we get it.the boys are back in town. Omg.

[@emmanuelmartin1238]

No one expects the Crimson Permanent Assurance!

[@tonygriffin_]

The Galaxy Song should be the world's national anthem.

[@slowerthinker]

Watching them talking about having nightmares during the organ transplant section... everyone is thinking "just wait until Mr Creosote turns up"

[@RaceDayReplay]

Mr Creosote is one of the funniest scenes ever

[@gcullen104]

There's a fourth Monty Python movie, gentlemen. It's called And Now For Somethhng Completely Different and it consists of lots of the sketches from their TV shows that were re-recorded for cinema. It's well worth a look. Also, congratulations on 120,000 subscribers. Seems like it's only five minutes since we were celebrating 100,000!

[@paxillusinvolutus5213]

Would it be utter sacrilege to include ‘Yellowbeard’ as a half 5th film?

[@margaretnicol3423]

Sorry it curdled your brains before it really got started! 😀

[@dcanmore]

you've got Terry Gilliam's Pythonesque movies such as Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, Brazil, Baron Munchausen, usually have Cleese, Palin and Idle popping up in them. John Cleese's Robin Hood in Time Bandits is hilarious. The films are all bonkers but a lot of fun.

[@markcutting6504]

Everyone forgets yellowbeard.mixture of old & new comedians/commediennes.not the greatest but Brian& grail would be hard to beat in anyone's old top 10.saw time bandits etc in my teens & thought they were more fantasy than comedy which goes with gilliam s animation.whereas fish called Wanda was cleese/Palin comedy

[@KevPage-Witkicker]

@@markcutting6504 I'd also add Erik The Viking to that list, has a few of the crew present.

[@vandalfinnicus1507]

Yeah, but now that Gilliam's been mentioned, I say his great 90's movies must be included; Fisher King, 12 Monkeys and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas.

[@dcanmore]

@@vandalfinnicus1507 I do like his 90s output but I left them out as they are less 'python' as the earlier movies. First Gilliam flick I saw at the cinema was The Fisher King.

[@raifthemad]

@@markcutting6504 Us Yellowbeards are never more dangerous than when we're dead.

[@rickardroach9075]

1:18:07 “We’ll, that’s cast rather a gloom over the evening, hasn’t it” is my favourite line of the film.

[@MrEAus]

The GRIM REAPER! Hardly surprising in this weather 😁

[@RenaissanceEarCandy]

"Hey! I didn't even eat the mousse"

[@mikestarkey7989]

"And would sir like a wafer thin mint?" BRILLIANT! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@martinarscott3524]

I know it's disjointed, but this is actually my favourite of the 3, uncommon opinion!

[@Paul_1971]

Mine too!

[@andywrong3247]

You got to be in the right frame of mind,isn't one the guy fighting no limbs funny only bit I remember as a young lad,second film didn't see the relevance @ the time,third aged 17 I thought was the funniest but overall life of Brian grew on me.

[@nightowlnzab]

I think we’re a small club, but this is absolutely my favourite of the films too!

[@tomleslie6668]

Me three!

[@kelvinmeneely3116]

Me foreplay!

[@DenariusHaveNarius]

Best use of slow-mo in a film. And 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

[@harrymarshall]

42 is the total number of spots on a duo of d6 die 🎲🎲 dont throw yr life away

[@dcanmore]

guy who jumped out of the window was also Max Headroom (Matt Frewer).

[@nellsun2521]

For maximum head room?

[@Tonyblack261]

That opening is sooo Terry Gilliam.

[@nellsun2521]

They said it was like an acid trip and Gilliam would later direct Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas...

[@stephenbrough8132]

At last - The whole thing in context - Thank you for doing this!

[@tick999]

Imagine seeing this at the cinema in 1983. Absolutely mental. I'm crying 🤣🤣🤣

[@ftumschk]

I did. My friends and I were totally thrown by the opening feature, and thought the cinema had loaded the wrong film!

[@carlosdeferrer3585]

Michael Palin did some great travel documentaries "around the world in 80 days" and "pole to pole" if you want to see how much the world has changed since the late 80s early 90s.

[@markcutting6504]

Don't think Pilkingtons idiot abroad was as intelligent & thought provoking.but I reckon Karl could have been a python member.sooorted!😂

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

25:43 The most British joke, ever.

[@donmurray3638]

Poor Jenkins finds out his mother died in the public announcements. That's the where the British private schoolkids get their stiff upper lip from!

[@bigthecat100]

If you liked this movie, you'll LOVE the TV series :)

[@egapnala65]

From an interview with Terry Jones at the time it was released: "Its a bit gruesome in parts isn't it?" "Yes it is" "You like things to be really gruesome then?" "Yes" "What's the most gruesome thing you like from the film?" "Terry Gilliam."

[@keeperofthecheese]

The middle of the Film sequence (Oh fishy fishy fish!) Was re-enacted in Family Guy XD Yeah this is definitely the most.... TRAUMATIC Python film XD They wanted to upset EVERYONE with this one.

[@weirds0up]

The Crimson Permanent Assurance was supposed to just be a short sketch in the film, but Terry G can only be stopped from filming by armed men pulling him away and locking him up. And so the sketch grew into its only little movie

[@ghichens3418]

This Film was proper out there when it came out ! Ace !!!!

[@gangsom]

This film is great I think life of Brian was the best though.

[@user-sh6gz8ms6w]

so under rated , art....true art. FACT

[@ross8884]

Michael Palin was always my favourite, superb playing that Drill Sergeant

[@Griexxt]

Best actor of the lot, IMO.

[@dwcinnc]

Your "cutting room floor" remark was on point. Gratuitous upchuckery.

[@DavidZ4-gg3dm]

All the Monty Python films & the sketch show are good.

[@nellsun2521]

The sketch show's dated though, compared to the movies which are timeless.

[@ozzybloke-craig3690]

That scene at the start with the old people becoming pirates on a moving building was so creative and fun, and just hilarious. The first time I saw it I was so confused but also could not stop laughing.

[@Danstarr69]

19:03 *Cartwright Hall* in *Lister Park* in *Manningham, Bradford.* A building I used to walk past every day, which has been used in at least 15 films and TV shows, plus even 1 or 2 computer games. *Ed Sheeran's* dad *John Sheeran* (who is a *Chelsea* fan) was the art curator at the museum until 1996, and used to take *Ed* to watch *Bradford City* at *Valley Parade* less than a mile down the road, which is why *Ed* is a *Bradford City* fan contrary to what most people and the media believe. 19:25 *East Riddlesden Hall* in *Keighley, Bradford.* It's been used in at least 5 film and TV productions.

[@johnloony68]

Cartwright Hall was named after my great-great-great-great-grandfather.

[@Morgonna]

Hitchhiker's Guide is worth a watch

[@DiceSully]

Talking of Hitchhikers, is that Arthur Dent in the death scene?

[@JonathanReynolds1]

The dude from “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids” was Rick Moranis.

[@user-jg9sk3ic5n]

Just go with it, FFS

[@thebobsful]

I was won/lost at the "Get that will you Deirdre?" moment . Followed by the Sergeant Major marching up and down the square... Then the "A tiger in Africa?"" and I lost it completely!

[@shhhhhh62]

I saw this in the cinema when it first came out. Hilarious!! Almost missed my last bus home. They blew most of the budget on dance scenes for Every Sperm …..

[@uluruh1527]

Part VI - "How does it make it's way through the cutting room": This ist the best scene ever. When I saw it in the movie theater, the three girls next to me hid on the floor behind the chairs for 4 minutes and didn't dare to look out. I had to laugh like never before... for over 4 minutes :)

[@clairdavies9358]

You can get a album with all of pythons songs on it.its called monty python sings. Highly recommended

[@forktruck71]

I went school with a lad who sang Every sperm is sacred.

[@nellsun2521]

How's he doing now? Hopefully not sold off for medical experiments?

[@Danstarr69]

*Monty Python's* manager from 1979 to 1997 is the *Oscar, BAFTA* and *Cesar* award winning producer *Steve Abbott* from *Bradford.* *Steve* also co-owns *Monty Python's* film and TV production companies, plus he has produced a lot of *Michael Palin's* documentary series. *Monty Python* filmed *Meaning of Life* and *Flying Circus* in at least 15 different locations across *Bradford* (no doubt many more as someone who has only seen occasional sketches). *Monty Python* is where *Monty Python* super fan *JK Rowling,* got a lot of her stuff for *Harry Potter,* yet barely anyone realises. She got the idea for the name *Harry Potter* from the *Sci-Fi Sketch* in *Pudsey, Leeds.* She got the idea for the *Dursley family* introduction from the *Sci-Fi Sketch* in *Pudsey, Leeds.* She got the idea for the *Gryffindor* colours from the *Sci-Fi Sketch* in *Manningham, Bradford.* Plus many more things from other sketches, such as the various names for the sweets. The *Sci-Fi Sketch* also filmed on some streets less than 1 mile West of me.

[@ericstorr9880]

I wondered why they filmed a lot in Bradford. I'm from there and often think about Python as I drive past Cartwright Hall 👍

[@nellsun2521]

Outside Creosole's restaurant looked like Ladbroke Grove/Notting Hill.

[@SeanHendy]

Regarding the Officer Corps, something which might change your perception of how it might have been: In WWI the life expectancy of a junior officer was 6 weeks.

[@DiceSully]

My parents stopped playing the Monty Python album in the car when I told my year 2 teacher (age 6-7) that Every Sperm is Sacred was my favourite song :D

[@Mr1979flapjack]

This video made me realise how much I miss Terry Jones. He was a bonafide legend.

[@elfboy29]

Pretty much there is left to be proud about in being British is Monty Python..

[@pineutrino]

This movie got a ton of flak for being so much more gratuitous and outrageous than anything Monty Python had done before. But honestly, I bet the only thing preventing them from having produced this kind of thing all along was the constraint of Flying Circus’s daytime TV PG rating. I bet they’d always wanted to make glorious filth like this.

[@SpikeMatthews]

This was made back when movies were shown in theatres with a small supporting film being shown beforehand. Terry Gilliam (the Pythons' animation man) basically blew almost the whole budget on the opening film...

[@davidmacey5422]

An acting friend of mine was in the "Every Sperm is Sacred" scene when he was a kid. What an accolade!

[@oneeyecat6886]

Yes!!! Watch 40 more times. I have!!!

[@VisionaryofMirage]

Definitely Python's most experimental and 'out there' film, apparently it was promoted as "guaranteed to offend absolutely everyone". 😆

[@wikkedspindl]

So many movies and tv shows. Always loved catching them whenever I can. They originally had a show calked Do Not Adjust Your Set begore they became the Python crew we now know. Other movies (mentioned or not), Search For The Holy Grail, And Now For Something Completely Different, Jabberwocky, Live At The Hollywood Bowl, Yellowbeard and Life of Brian. Probably missing a couple, but all worth the watch!

[@markcutting6504]

Not python but check out the secret policemans ball.saw it early teens but I think cleese,atkinson,petercook.& Many others with live skits

[@experi-mentalproductions5358]

My favourite Python film. Also, you guys should check out "Monty Python: Live at the Hollywood Bowl" next.

[@pattern2481]

Monty Python makes you scratch your head, but then (sometimes years later) you say, "Oh shit... I understand that now".

[@troyallen4868]

Some things are just sacred 🤣

[@user-sh6gz8ms6w]

couldn't have put it better my self.

[@johnwilletts3984]

This really is the meaning of life. Philosophy made clear.

[@goldentony111]

It's quite normal in the UK to eat toast with a knife and fork if is used to absorb the beans and egg at breakfast. I suspect this was fried bread, which used to be popular to have with a fried breakfast and was eaten with a knife and fork.

[@johnnygreen1376]

I love that you guys made it through this bucket of LSD. Well done.

[@princeofdaftness]

One of my favourite films, and you two getting your melons messed with, is hilarious 😅

[@tomg6318]

I gotta start laying off the potato chips or I'm going to start looking like Mr Creosote

[@craigbirks7075]

The kids from Every Sperm is Sacred were interviewed and said they loved it because they could say rude words 😁😁

[@MrDunkycraig]

Oh the teenage me has great memories of watching this when it came out😂😂😂

[@tubekulose]

The roman emperor didn't even appear in "Life of Brian". Do you mean Pontius Pilate?

[@pastyman001]

The dance sequence for "Every Sperm is Sacred" blew the entire budget for the film, so they had to re-finance with some difficulty

[@darrenpayne150]

I love Monty Python! It's amazing how they foreshadowed the future at the beginning, saying to the new mother that it's a bit early to be imposing roles on the baby. Maybe that is what all midwives say nowadays

[@puppyash9656]

The movie budget was completely devoured by the costs of the "Every sperm" sequence. The production was on the brink of shutting down. Enter George Harrison, ex-Beatle and co-producer of "Life of Brian". Once again, he stepped up and put up all the money they needed to keep shooting the rest of the film.

[@Tonyblack261]

"A waffer thin mint?"

[@albrussell7184]

After coming out the cinema I think there were a few hundred people singing or humming Every Sperm is Sacred. Now whenever somebody is really full after a big meal, it's almost mandatory in the UK to ask them, in a french accent of course, 'would you like one wafer thin mint?'. Seeing Mr Creosote in action on the big screen was almost vomit-inducing, it's not as effective on TV.

[@commonsense9176]

Glad I'm not the only one 😂

[@TheDungeonSLO]

that american actor you saw was also Max Headroom from the eightess. that robotic looking guy on the television

[@commonsense9176]

Thier final show is a must

[@HeadbangerTomcat]

In the Mr Creosote scene, the fake puke used was condensed minestrone soup. By the fourth day of shooting, the set was apparently filled with the most outrageous stench! 🤮

[@ozzybloke-craig3690]

Amazing. What a great video to wake up on my birthday and watch.

[@paxillusinvolutus5213]

I think you would enjoy the various Micheal Palin travel programs. Starting from ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ to ‘Whatever the Most Recent One is’. His trip to North Korea maybe…?

[@Thane36425]

Mr. Creosote is one of my favorite scenes ever since it actually made someone throw up. I was watching the movie with a couple of friends, one who hadn't seen it before. He's the one who threw up.

[@SpikeMatthews]

Monty Python: *makes 'Life of Brian' Fundamentalists and other idiots: *Get angry for no bloody reason Monty Python: "Oh, really? Hold my f***ing beer and watch this." *makes 'Meaning of Life'

[@egapnala65]

There was another interview with Terry Jones where he was called out over some of the content and he said they had filmed a lot of sequences they had expected to be cut from the film by Universal. However Universal decided to release it uncut. He said he and the others were appalled by the decision and regretted a lot of what they did onscreen. Though as Jones wrote the Mr Creosote sketch and Eric Idle says he's proud of the film because of its "punk" nature and the fact its still upsetting people today, I think you need to take it with a pinch of salt. The liver doners sketch is the one I used to skip because it was too gratuitously nasty and more disturbing than funny especially with the gore being foregrounded and Gilliam's screams being far too realistic to be funny. I see where the joke is meant to be but they could have filmed it differently. It casts a shadow over the rest of the film for me. I guess that's why they are the first two people we see in the heaven sequence.

[@eldarmodelling7491]

I live a mile from the Every Sperm is Sacred scenes. I cant go past without the song going through my head!

[@znotch87]

Rick Moranis was not harmed during the making of this film.

[@vandalfinnicus1507]

American member of Monty Python, filmmaker Terry Gilliam, directed the opening sequence. It's like a grander version of his animations in the original show. The other Terry (Jones) directed most of this film.

[@Calumetto]

Check out "Erik the Viking." It's a Monty Python movie, although it wasn't billed as one. It stars Tim Robbins (Shawshank). It's about an awkward Viking hero that goes off on a quest to end the age of Ragnarok. It's directed by Terry Jones (Mr Creosote) and has him, John Cleese and Micky Rooney in it. I loved it. ••• PEACES!!!

[@markcutting6504]

Good one.forgot about erik.watched yellowbeard a year or so ago.both not hilarious but not many films are after 40 years later bunking off school.imagine going to blockbusters & renting blues brothers with cheap lager.oh the 80's😂😫

[@Calumetto]

​@@markcutting6504 Oh man -- Yellowbeard. Yeah. I remember the guy who played Dr. Bombay and Col. Crittenden getting his foot nailed to the deck. His whole part was basically one line, and then standing silently in the rain where he was nailed -- his British demeanor saying "I say... This hardly seems cricket." Loved that. ••• PEACES!!! Or was that "The Corsican Bros"? I'm not sure.

[@haps2019]

Erik the Viking is not a Monty Python Movie.

[@DennisGlover-wr2mw]

I saw this in the theatre on mushrooms. It made total sense to me.

[@uncontrolledhistorian7063]

Your release of this film is just a perfect sync here, lads. 1983. I watched a midnight premiere in Leicester Square, London with my BFF. It confused us too! Just a couple of days ago we were all talking about the birth of our first son (26th of June) and how I, in full labour, threw lethal weapons at my husband. It was a cardboard bowl to pee in. Bloody Sperm!!!!!! :o)

[@richardscratcher6075]

(Sir) Michael Caine cameo appearance at 45:25

[@DanielRobertspiano]

The sperm song is a big parody of the musical film Oliver too!

[@zaphodbeeblebrox6627]

The reason the 'Mr Creosote' section got past the sensors is because it's British humour & It's disgustingly funny. You either get it or you don't. Oh... spoiler alert, the vomit wasn't real!

[@michaelnolan6951]

This was the movie that, when I first saw it 35 years ago, turned me from a dutiful church going lad into a confirmed atheist. Thank God!

[@nelsonoberg9747]

Meaning of Life is my favorite.

[@nellsun2521]

It has some of the best and most polished Python moments, but as a cohesive film I prefer the previous 2 for enjoyment.

[@uluruh1527]

Try this one too: "Brazil" - by Terry Gilliam (from the Pythons) - another legenadary one with Robert De Niro

[@BadWisdom523]

I’d love to see you guys watch The Holy Mountain - but the edit and cleaning up the blown minds, I don’t know?

[@mikestarkey7989]

"The meaning that of life" by the Month python crew and the classic song "every sperm is sacred" Not having a pop at the Roman Catholic Church, HONEST!

[@jasonc5413]

Great video guys. I thought the start would confuse you. It's my favorite python movie, Life of Brian coming in close second place.

[@troyallen4868]

BTW, that was just like my school, honest! 😆

[@lewisner]

I saw this when it was released and I can't wait to see you react to the Fishy Fishy Oh bit 😅

[@Stogie2112]

This film is not as good as Holy Grail and Life of Brian, but it does have a lot of great comedy. You can't get very far in life without the Machine that goes PING!

[@Roberto_79]

So you wouldn’t like “a wafer thin mint“? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@barriehull7076]

42 in base 13. What does 42 mean in the Hitchhiker's Guide? You may ask, watch the film to find out.

[@BintyMcFrazzles]

I did the exact same thing as you with the beginning of the film! The first act does go on rather too long, and although it does have some very funny, classic moments, The Meaning of Life is the weakest of the Python films, IMO. The Protestants scene is hilarious.

[@TheseDarkWoods]

Lovely, guys! I discovered Python in the mid-90’s, when I was about eleven. This one was always considered to be the lesser movie of the three (if you would exclude ”And now for something completely different” (1971) and ”Live at the Hollywood Bowl” 1982). It is slowly growing into a masterpiece, I feel, and I know I’m not alone in feeling this. It’s so fucking vile and gruesome in parts that it’s hard to imagine this gang made ”Flying Circus” 14 years prior. I heavily suggest you to check out the documentary called ”Monty Python: Almost the truth - The lawyer’s cut” from 2009. It’s fan-bloody-tastic! I love your stuff, boys! Wrap up your Christmas Specials of ”The Office” and PLEASE get to the second Gervais/Merchant masterpiece that is ”Extras”. 🤟🥂🔥

[@patriciaburke6639]

Not quite ‘The Trilogy’. Monty Pythons first film was: ‘And Now For Something Completely Different’ which was a collection of sketches from their BBC TV Series, recreated as a feature film.

[@arifeannor9573]

fav movie from them but they are all good.

[@stuartmcivor2276]

Yes - do The Rutles!