Monty Python and The Holy Grail: Critic Reviews

A marvelously particular kind of lunatic endeavor.

Ah, bless the Pythons, back after 26 years to get medieval all over again on the legend of King Arthur and his knights of the round table.

Really smart people improvising really silly gags and bits, most of which work, some of which don't.

Brimming over with unforgettable gags and baroquely nonsensical insults.

Silly, sophomoric, and slapped together -- but would you want it any other way?

Still stands as a gloriously silly and twisted send-up.

Monty Python's Flying Circus, the British comedy group which gained fame via BBC-TV, send-up Arthurian legend, performed in whimsical fashion with Graham Chapman an effective straight man as King Arthur.

The funniest movie of 1975 and probably the silliest movie ever made.

Has been so quoted and requoted that the scenes and words feel tattooed onto the psychic membrane.

Grail is as funny as a movie can get, but it is also a tough-minded picture -- as outraged about the human propensity for violence as it is outrageous in its attack on that propensity.

For all its shenanigans, Monty Python and the Holy Grail has a sense of humor that is intellectual, even academic, at heart.

A zany, hysterically funny, and sometimes brilliant if sometimes sophomoric send-up of every medieval movie ever made.

A comedy classic that only misses out on the Python canon's top spot because the talented swines also made Life Of Brian.

There's something about feature films that brings out the best in the Pythons. The occasional indulgence of the TV series is replaced by a more focused approach which wrings every conceivable joke out of a given subject.

This has to be one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

Troupe members Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones helmed this feature, bringing to it a visual style that is both cinematic and outrageously surreal.

It's still one of the funniest, silliest and all-out strangest films you'll ever see. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.

I laughed so hard I thought I would stop breathing.

Thirty-one years after its release, this remains my favorite Python feature, and you probably already know if it's yours as well.

Python's delightful and, on the whole, consistent reductio ad absurdum of the Grail legend.

This innovative and hilarious spoof on the Arthurian tales is a laugh riot from start to finish; best of all is the pacification program for the Knights who say "Ni!"

Uma comedia repleta de momentos classicos do genero - e este longa-metragem foi apenas o primeiro do inesquecivel Monty Python.

Monty Python doesn't get better than this!

Perhaps the most original comedy - or at least the most ridiculously funny historically semi-accurate comedy spoof - of all time

Monty Python at their most successful. It improves with age.