It’s time to catch up with my website updates, so what better place to start with than a Monty Python movie?
Score: 4.9π out of 900º
Though Monty Python’s ‘The Meaning of Life’ is an awesome movie, it is not a family friendly one; nor, for that matter, is it a friendly movie to anyone opposed to seeing breasts or hearing musical lyrics regarding the spiritual status of sperm. It is, however, classic Monty Python and thus extremely witty.
The movie, after chasing out idiots that aren’t sure what movie they think they’re watching via a trick feature presentation, goes on to attempt to describe what life is all about through a series of 10-15 minute skits loosely tied together. They never really solve the problem, but by the end of the movie we have no choice to assume that life is about silly jokes and bare-breasted women galavanting about.
Okay, so sex is also a large chunk of the meaning of life, and that’s accounted for too. Ranging from the sex education course with live demonstration to a pianist singing about his penis, there’s a large emphasis on sex throughout the movie. While I’d find it far too crude and tasteless elsewhere, Monty Python just has a way of pulling it off in the right way.
They also have to include fighting each other and death to round out the course of life fully. Rounded off with a couple of skits on birth (including the Roman Catholic singing about how every sperm is sacred, which is why he could not wear a condom and prevent himself from having 400 or so starving children) and a skit on live organ donation this movie turns out to be very humorous indeed. (Though it still gets quite vulgar in parts, mind you)
I left the movie feeling much better enlightened as to the meaning of life, being mainly that Monty Python was a genius group, so I give this the near perfect score of 4.9π.
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