Monty Python's Life of Brian (Blu-ray, Immaculate Edition) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 8, 2008
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Monty Python | |
Performer: | Kenneth Colley, Graham Chapman, Gwen Taylor, Terence Bayler, Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Eric Idle & Charles McKeown | |
Directed by | Terry Jones | |
Edited by | Julian Doyle | |
Screenwriting by | Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones & Michael Palin | |
Composition by | Geoffrey Burgon, Eric Idle, Andre Jacquemin & David Howman | |
Art Direction by | Roger Christian | |
Produced by | John Goldstone | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Biziou |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Always hilarious...
Total Film
I've always considered it the group's nadir; it seems toothlessly silly.
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Chicago Reader
5 stars out of 5 -- [With] a consistently high strike rate that puts this on a par with HOLY GRAIL as the team's best big-screen foray.
Total Film
Rating: 10/10 --
Regularly voted the funniest British film. A contender.
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Irish Times
Python successfully lampoon religious attitudes rather than religion itself.
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Time Out
While the movie doesn't reinvent the wheel, it is professionally impeccable. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 5/5 --
Life of Brian is undoubtedly the greatest religious satire of all-time. Comedic gold.
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Father Son Holy Gore
Product Description:
Monty Python delivers a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood's depiction of all things biblical with their second--and tightest--full-length film. The setting is the Holy Land in 33 A.D., a time of poverty and chaos, with no shortage of messiahs, followers willing to believe in them, and exasperated Romans trying to impose some order. At the center of it all is Brian Cohen (Graham Chapman), a reluctant would-be messiah who rises to prominence as a result of a series of absurd and truly hilarious circumstances that parallel the life of Christ--providing ample opportunity for the entire ensemble (John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Chapman) to shine in multiple roles as they blaspheme and mock everyone and everything from ex-lepers, Pontius Pilate, and the art of haggling to crazy prophets, Roman centurions, and crucifixion.
Directed by Python Terry Jones, MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN is an uproarious biblical parody that does to ancient Rome what THE HOLY GRAIL did to the Middle Ages. Rome is run by pathetic wimps, liberation fronts fight with each other over acronyms, and gladiators put on bloody children's matinees as the people search desperately for someone to lead them out of their life of misery and poverty. And Brian is that man. Sort of. Well, not really. Chapman excels as Brian, a simple, quiet man suddenly thrust in the role of leading the revolution--while constantly being yelled at by his shrew of a mother.
Directed by Python Terry Jones, MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN is an uproarious biblical parody that does to ancient Rome what THE HOLY GRAIL did to the Middle Ages. Rome is run by pathetic wimps, liberation fronts fight with each other over acronyms, and gladiators put on bloody children's matinees as the people search desperately for someone to lead them out of their life of misery and poverty. And Brian is that man. Sort of. Well, not really. Chapman excels as Brian, a simple, quiet man suddenly thrust in the role of leading the revolution--while constantly being yelled at by his shrew of a mother.
Keywords:
Black Comedy
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British
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Religion
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Farce
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Recommended
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Satire
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Ancient World
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