And Now For Something Completely Different
1971
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT consists of some of Monty Python's funniest sketches from their earliest years together. Director Ian MacNaughton leads John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam on a hysterical romp through pet shops, marriage counselor offices, and odd .. Read more
| Starring | John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle |
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| Director | Ian MacNaughton |
| Genres | Comedy |
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And Now For Something Completely Different
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT consists of some of Monty Python's funniest sketches from their earliest years together. Director Ian MacNaughton leads John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam on a hysterical romp through pet shops, marriage counselor offices, and odd London streets and fields filled with singing lumberjacks, dead parrots, hungry babies, upper-class twits, people trying not to be seen, and old ladies on motorcycles, fighting off milkmen, bank robbers, crazy flashers, dirty forks, and killer jokes. The sketches have been recreated for the big screen, without the ever-present laugh track but still loaded with Gilliam's outrageously funny animation. As in the television show, the skits are linked together through clever animation as well as by characters in uniform (Graham Chapman, in this case) proclaiming, "I'm warning this film not to get silly again." Among Monty Python's favorite targets are the military, the police, the British government, the courts, Mao, Uncle Sam, and television reporters. As always, there are lots of men in drag. Even the closing credits are a riot. But watch out for that 16-ton weight....
| Starring | John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin |
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| Director | Ian MacNaughton |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 24 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 28 Jul 2003 Production year: 1971 |
| Format | DVD |
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Not all that different, though, for British enthusiasts of Monty Python's comic madness, as this is a recycling of some the team's funniest BBC TV sketches. The team's first cinematic outing was really aimed at American innocents, hitherto ignorant of such items as the “Upper Class Twit of the Year Race” and “Hell's Grannies”, with Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Terry Gilliam giving vent to a wholly superior form of surrealism. The Americans took it all to their hearts, bless 'em. Perhaps they thought that the “Townswomen's Guild Reconstruction of Pearl Harbor” was for real.
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The first Monty Python film, intended to introduce the team's humour to an American audience. It lacks any overall coherence, but many of the individual sketches are a joy.
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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful
What Do You Expect
Ref. other reviews. People obviously expected more! Now for something was a duplication of an original set of sketches. This was set up as an opening to those who missed the original transmissions due to either age or miss-education ( I should know - my mum banned me from watching it in 1971). Dont look for a comparrison with the films (Brian etc. as good as they were), This is raw Python.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
If you're a Python fan like i am you will not be disappointed.Lumberjack and Parrot sketches are in this as well as numerous other funny ones. Definately one to wach!.
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