A recreation on film of the supposedly best comedy sketches from the first couple of seasons of the Monty Python's Flying Circus tv series. The original group is here, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Michael Palin. Terry Gilliam's animated transitional sketches are also featured to tie the sketches together.
I would have to report that 50 years later most of these sketches don't really seem to hold up. I also hate to say it but the lack of a laugh track is actually kind of missed as well although it really shouldn't be. What seemed funny on their 30 minute shows is now kind of unending in this 90 minute film. The Python comedy group's once revolutionary style of anything goes humor has been so copied that a lot of their famous sketches now seem rather tired. The humor actually seems on the stupid and unfunny side.
"The Funniest Joke in the World" the "Dead Parrot" and the "Camp Square Bashing" bits simply don't work at all anymore. "Kilimanjaro Expedition", "Bank Robber" and "The Dirty Fork" are a real ordeal to sit through.
Probably the most entertaining elements of this film are the Terry Gilliam animated sequences which are still pretty funny in their surrealist kind of way. They almost make this dated comedy film seem kind of funny at times.
The film was written by the Monty Python group, the running time is 88 minutes.
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