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- 1975
- Terry Gilliam
- 85 mins
- 12
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Comedy from the Monty Python team. AD 932: King Arthur and his page Patsy are seeking knights to join them at the Round Table. But a more demanding task awaits them when God appears telling them of their quest to find the Holy Grail.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
David Parkinson
Complete with some inspired digressions and shorn of some of the weaker sketches, the soundtrack album of the Pythons' first story-based feature is even funnier than the film itself. Yet this remains a wonderfully inventive comedy that brilliantly debunks the Dark Ages and legends of chivalry through King Arthur's encounters with an anarcho-syndicalist commune, the Black Knight, God (courtesy of Terry Gilliam) and the "knights who say ni". The Camelot and Sir Robin songs also get beneath the visor, but the highlights are the trial of Connie Booth's witch and the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch sequence. Shame about the ending, though.
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rolenameKing ArthurGraham ChapmanBlack Knight / Sir LancelotJohn CleesePatsy / Green KnightTerry GilliamSir Robin / Brother MaynardEric IdleDennis' mother / Sir BedevereTerry JonesDennis / Sir GalahadMichael PalinWitchConnie Booth
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rolenameDirectorTerry GilliamDirectorTerry Jones
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EMI Dists
Languages
English | Swedish | Latin | French
Guidance
Contains some violence, swearing and brief nudity.
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video, DVD and Blu-ray
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Colour
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