Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Name: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Released: 1983-3-31
Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin

R
1h 47m
1983

85%

age 16+

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Those six pandemonium-mad Pythons are back with their craziest adventure ever! Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin have returned to explain The Meaning of Life. These naughty Brits offer the usual tasteful sketches involving favorite body parts and bodily functions, the wonders of war, the miracle of birth and a special preview of what's waiting for us in Heaven. Time pronounces it "an exhilarating experience!" Newsweek agrees, calling it, "the best movie from England's satirical sextet."

Director:

Terry Jones

Producer:

John Goldstone

Writer:

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Terry Jones

Cast:

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Terry Jones

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

85%

Critics Consensus: Monty Python's the Meaning of Life is rude, ribald, and unafraid to take comedic risks -- which is to say it should more than satisfy fans of the titular troupe.

Reviews

El Pais (Spain)

Diego Galán

The Meaning of Life is one of the Monty Python's better films. But its innocence remains intact. [Full Review in Spanish]

Some of the sketches are inspired... Some of the sketches are merely loud and boring the Pythons are at their unfunniest in drag. Even devout Pythonians might question some of the items.

Does the attack work? Only occasionally.

If The Meaning of Life is undeniably tasteless, it is also imaginative and played with a soft edge that never reads as bitter, only mischievous.

As youthful and contemporary as ever.

June 22, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 16+

Common Sense Says

Edgy Python schtick better for older viewers.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this movie is decidedly more mature (if one can use that word with this hilarious crew) than other Python offerings as it tackles death, sex, religion, war, and more all with the expected heavy doses of satire and sarcasm. Monty Python is well known for its lampoons of religion and this movie has a song called "Every Sperm is Sacred." It pokes fun at the Catholic religion. The violence is all rather cartoonish, though at times can be gory. Blood spurts everywhere during one scene as people try to take his liver while he's alive. There is sexual innuendo and there are sexual jokes.