This is probably my favorite movie of all time, comedy or otherwise. I haven't seen a huge amount of movies - I'm more of a music guy myself - but here's one that I keep revisiting. It's one of those rare comedies (at least according to my rather limited experience) where literally every gag not only succeeds, but succeeds wonderfully. This is easily up there with classics like Airplane! and Young Frankenstein, and something tells me it might be even better.
Even if you've never seen this movie, you're probably familiar with most of it, because it's passed into "pop-culture-touchstone"-ism for good reason. I'm sure you have friends who can recite scenes of this movie by heart. I know, because pretty much all of my friends can. Me included. But it's just so funny, so off-the-wall, and so original that it never gets old. It's just one of those types of movies, you know?
So what's the humor like? If you've seen a single episode of the Flying Circus (and if you haven't, you need to get off your computer and go see Dead Parrot, Self Defense against Fruit, Ministry of Silly Walks and about a dozen others RIGHT NOW), you should know what to expect. There's a healthy dose of the absurd, and I live for the absurd. Cows, wooden badgers, and "Holy Handgrenades" are thrown about. It's also extremely irreverent - check out the God scene (my personal favorite - "of COURSE it's a good idea!"), King Arthur's discussions with communist peasants, the French, the infamous Black Knight, and the final scene, which is an excellent combination of anticlimactic and hilarious. It's also somewhat morbid (i.e. "I'm not quite dead!"), and there are a few sex jokes, but far from being the cheap, tacky ones Will Ferrel specializes in, they're gut-busters. For example, the Sir Galahad ("the chaste!") scene is a highlight, or at least would be a highlight if everything in this movie wasn't a highlight. And the low-budget-ness adds to the laughs, of course. There's a bit of cheesy fake blood that looks like red food coloring, and I find that really funny.
I haven't even mentioned the Knights of Nee, Tim the Enchanter, Sir Robin's Minstrels, Killer Rabbit, the typically surreal between-scene animations, the gay heir and his perverted dad, the well-known Bridge of Death, the monks, and about a million other things. That's for you to see for yourself. If you've honestly never seen this movie before, you need to fix that as quickly as possible.
This is probably my favorite movie of all time, comedy or otherwise. I haven't seen a huge amount of movies - I'm more of a music guy myself - but here's one that I keep revisiting. It's one of those rare comedies (at least according to my rather limited experience) where literally every gag not only succeeds, but succeeds wonderfully. This is easily up there with classics like Airplane! and Young Frankenstein, and something tells me it might be even better. Even if you've never seen this movie, you're probably familiar with most of it, because it's passed into "pop-culture-touchstone"-ism for good reason. I'm sure you have friends who can recite scenes of this movie by heart. I know, because pretty much all of my friends can. Me included. But it's just so funny, so off-the-wall, and so original that it never gets old. It's just one of those types of movies, you know? So what's the humor like? If you've seen a single episode of the Flying Circus (and if you haven't, you need to get off your computer and go see Dead Parrot, Self Defense against Fruit, Ministry of Silly Walks and about a dozen others RIGHT NOW), you should know what to expect. There's a healthy dose of the absurd, and I live for the absurd. Cows, wooden badgers, and "Holy Handgrenades" are thrown about. It's also extremely irreverent - check out the God scene (my personal favorite - "of COURSE it's a good idea! "), King Arthur's discussions with communist peasants, the French, the infamous Black Knight, and the final scene, which is an excellent combination of anticlimactic and hilarious. It's also somewhat morbid (i. e. "I'm not quite dead! "), and there are a few sex jokes, but far from being the cheap, tacky ones Will Ferrel specializes in, they're gut-busters. For example, the Sir Galahad ("the chaste! ") scene is a highlight, or at least would be a highlight if everything in this movie wasn't a highlight. And the low-budget-ness adds to the laughs, of course. There's a bit of cheesy fake blood that looks like red food coloring, and I find that really funny. I haven't even mentioned the Knights of Nee, Tim the Enchanter, Sir Robin's Minstrels, Killer Rabbit, the typically surreal between-scene animations, the gay heir and his perverted dad, the well-known Bridge of Death, the monks, and about a million other things. That's for you to see for yourself. If you've honestly never seen this movie before, you need to fix that as quickly as possible.