Solemplex
To me, this movie is perfection.
Jeanskynebu
the audience applauded
Casey Duggan
It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
cinephile-27690
"....if a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate!" This is one of my favorite comedies! It took numerous viewings for me to love it but it was worth it!The movie follows the skit team going through the stages of life to try to find the meaning of life. So they go through birth, religious belief, war, sex ed, Catholic education, aging, gluttony, and other various topics. I have 2 main favorite scenes: The aforementioned "Every Sperm Is Sacred" scene, in which a Catholic man must give up his numerous kids for experiments since he did not use protection. My other is the Mr. Creosote segment, where an extremely obese man orders all of the food on the menu in a restaurant. That's all I will say about that. Just know from my experience that guys love the segment and girls TEND to not like it. The movie is stupid but what else would you expect from Monty Python? The Meaning of Life may offend, but it's so silly that you won't really care if you have my experience. "And may God strike me down otherwise!"
merelyaninnuendo
Monty Python's The Meaning Of LifeThe makers and the actors seems to be enjoying too much of themselves and is taking the audience for granted considering the fame and royalty earned by the predecessor, which never goes in favor no matter how amusing or intriguing concept is being pulled off. There are few bits in here where the writer takes it too far and pushes the audience to a darker path on its ridiculous failed attempts to crack a smile. The script is a bit overstretched since the material offered in here is wafer thin and lacks any sort of structure or lose thread to hold the audience. It is short on technical aspects like sound department, art design and editing. Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam; the directors, fails to create the anticipated impact and execute their vision or even offer the suitable environment and palpable tone to the feature. The actors have stayed true to their comic side of their personality and draws out laughs as much as possible with their humorous gestures and act. Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life is a meaningless experience for the audience as the enthusiasm seems to have worn off from the makers creating a hollow emptiness that can't be filled with any material.
Eric Stevenson
This is one of the best comedies I have ever seen. It's probably in my Top 10, if not Top 5. While I (and most other people) consider "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" to be the best Monty Python movie, this is still amazing. What's interesting is that since it's an anthology movie, I've actually seen bits and pieces of it over the years. I already saw about 38 minutes of it before. It's of course worth it to see the whole thing.It seems as though everything is unrelated, but it really does make a lot more sense at the end. We even get a nice happy ending with everything resolved and guess what? They actually tell you the meaning of life at the end! Well, at least what they think it is. It really isn't a mean spirited movie or anything. I don't, however, recall the original Monty Python show being this graphic or obscene. You can just get away with a lot more in movies. I think my favorite segment would probably be the bit with Mr. Caruso. Yes, it's disgusting, but it's hilarious. I also love the lengthy opening bit as that honestly probably works better as action than comedy. It's extremely unpredictable, yet it does form somewhat of a coherent narrative. Among all of their films, this is the one that seemed the most like their show. ****
James Wormold
Some films, if not most, are greater as a whole than as their individual parts. Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" is not one of those films.In fact, it scarcely is a film."The Meaning of Life" is a large-budget response to the next generation of comedy in the classic Python sketch-show format. The film, as a whole, does not work, but the individual parts may. For the most part, WHICH parts depends on your sense of humour.The show is admittedly meaner and more surreal than ever before. The imagery is audacious and powerful. The jokes are zany, often gross and brilliantly timed. The musical numbers are quite exceptional.Despite this being Python's last feature, it is anything from dull. The troupe is gleefully aware of their audience and will go to unbelievable lengths to generate laughter, or offend.Warning: You may never be able to eat vegetable soup again.
