I liked Holy Grail much better (I assume you’re talking about Life of Brian- I have no way of knowing). But it got me in a way that the others did not.
Can I say none of them and go back to watching the television show?
I think The Life Of Brian is by far the funniest film ever made! but that could just be me…..
Eric Idle jokingly said, when asked what the follow up to Grail would be, “Jesus Christ, Lust for Glory”….. they started writing it with JC as the central figure, but dropped it soon after (too much baggage) for a contempory character, Brian. There is a book with some excerpts of never filmed script from this, including an hilarious scene where Joeseph is having trouble with Mary’s explanation of being in the family way, given her still virgin status! Beautiful.
I love Life of Brian, it’s the best. The rest of there films are great too.
The Holy Grail. But The Life Of Brian was great too.
Sorry, but definitely the Holy Grail – we all remember how the grail is lit up above the castle with the women, right – well, you can’t beat that! Second:would have to be And Now for Something Completely Different because no one has mentioned it yet and it contains several of the best Python TV sketches, including the ultimate Parrot sketch. However, has anyone seen the brilliant German episodes of the original TV series? They are great, especially the Durer sequence, and seldom mentioned on Python fan sites.
The first Python film I have ever saw was The Meaning of Life which was at the time, the funniest thing I’d ever seen. Then came The Holy Grail, when I was a freshman in High School. My friends and I laughed and laughed until it hurt, real side splitting laughter. And we were actually rolling on the ground. except for my one friend who couldn’t understand what was so funny, which in itself was nearly as funny as the film itself. Finally, The Life of Brian. The funniest of all in my book, and the only one to elicit the same level of laughter with each viewing.
The first Python film I have ever saw was The Meaning of Life which was at the time, the funniest thing I’d ever seen. Then came The Holy Grail, when I was a freshman in High School. My friends and I laughed and laughed until it hurt, real side splitting laughter. And we were actually rolling on the ground. except for my one friend who couldn’t understand what was so funny, which in itself was nearly as funny as the film itself. Finally, The Life of Brian. The funniest of all in my book, and the only one to elicit the same level of laughter with each viewing.
Holy Grail.
They’re all great though.
They all suck, even the show.
By FAR “And Now For Something Completely Different”. The only other one of their films to come close to that movie’s comedic ingenuity is “Monty Python: Live at the Hollywood Bowl”.
ANFSCD > LAHB > HG > MOL > LOB
I don’t even think “And Now…” should count as a film. It’s pretty much just a best of the first two seasons of Flying Circus, and I think the sketches are funnier in the show than in the film.
I think Life Of Brian works the best as a film. Meaning Of Life is great, but a little scatterbrained at times. I think there’s some funnier moments in Meaning, but nothing really comes close to, “How shall we fuck off, lord?”
Life of Brian. Just the scene of Brian’s nude appearance at the window alone was worth the price of admission – and that sequence still ranks as one of the loudest long-sustaining laughs I ever heard come out of an audience…………
As a huge Monty Python fan I think that their best film is…
That’s where I stopped on writing this post. It’s really difficult to decide on their best film. Holy Grail was the funniest, Life of Brian was the most satirical, and Meaning of Life was the most visually creative and the most successful at transferring the style of the show onto film. (I don’t count “And Now for Something Completely Different” as a film, just a retread.)
If pressed I go for Holy Grail because it was my introduction to them, but I don’t have a definitive answer.
Holy Grail is their funniest film IMO. But Meaning of Life is their BEST. It just captures for me what the group is all about. I put Life of Brian a cut below those two, although it is a great movie. Perhaps I need to see it again, haven’t watched it in a couple years.
Holy Grail is a masterwork and their best film in my opinion.
holy grail for sure, i was raised on that and the show. didn’t see the other ones until later on.
christopher queen
This is my personal favorite of all the Python films. Don’t get me wrong. I love Holy Grail and Meaning of life, but I find this one to be the most humorous. Am I alone in my thinking?