1st Time Watching "Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life" | MOVIE REVIEW 

You lose 200 points for stopping the intro and tripple checking you were watching a Monty Python film.

No one expects the Crimson Permanent Assurance!

The Galaxy Song should be the world's national anthem.

Sorry it curdled your brains before it really got started! 😀

Mr Creosote is one of the funniest scenes ever

you've got Terry Gilliam's Pythonesque movies such as Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, Brazil, Baron Munchausen, usually have Cleese, Palin and Idle popping up in them. John Cleese's Robin Hood in Time Bandits is hilarious. The films are all bonkers but a lot of fun.

Watching them talking about having nightmares during the organ transplant section... everyone is thinking "just wait until Mr Creosote turns up"

I know it's disjointed, but this is actually my favourite of the 3, uncommon opinion!

There's a fourth Monty Python movie, gentlemen. It's called And Now For Somethhng Completely Different and it consists of lots of the sketches from their TV shows that were re-recorded for cinema. It's well worth a look. Also, congratulations on 120,000 subscribers. Seems like it's only five minutes since we were celebrating 100,000!

guy who jumped out of the window was also Max Headroom (Matt Frewer).

1:18:07 “We’ll, that’s cast rather a gloom over the evening, hasn’t it” is my favourite line of the film.

Best use of slow-mo in a film. And 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

That opening is sooo Terry Gilliam.

Imagine seeing this at the cinema in 1983. Absolutely mental. I'm crying 🤣🤣🤣

At last - The whole thing in context - Thank you for doing this!

Michael Palin did some great travel documentaries "around the world in 80 days" and "pole to pole" if you want to see how much the world has changed since the late 80s early 90s.

25:43 The most British joke, ever.

If you liked this movie, you'll LOVE the TV series :)

This Film was proper out there when it came out ! Ace !!!!

Poor Jenkins finds out his mother died in the public announcements. That's the where the British private schoolkids get their stiff upper lip from!

so under rated , art....true art. FACT

This film is great I think life of Brian was the best though.

All the Monty Python films & the sketch show are good.

"And would sir like a wafer thin mint?" BRILLIANT! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Just go with it, FFS

The middle of the Film sequence (Oh fishy fishy fish!) Was re-enacted in Family Guy XD Yeah this is definitely the most.... TRAUMATIC Python film XD They wanted to upset EVERYONE with this one.

Michael Palin was always my favourite, superb playing that Drill Sergeant

The Crimson Permanent Assurance was supposed to just be a short sketch in the film, but Terry G can only be stopped from filming by armed men pulling him away and locking him up. And so the sketch grew into its only little movie

19:03 *Cartwright Hall* in *Lister Park* in *Manningham, Bradford.* A building I used to walk past every day, which has been used in at least 15 films and TV shows, plus even 1 or 2 computer games. *Ed Sheeran's* dad *John Sheeran* (who is a *Chelsea* fan) was the art curator at the museum until 1996, and used to take *Ed* to watch *Bradford City* at *Valley Parade* less than a mile down the road, which is why *Ed* is a *Bradford City* fan contrary to what most people and the media believe. 19:25 *East Riddlesden Hall* in *Keighley, Bradford.* It's been used in at least 5 film and TV productions.

Your "cutting room floor" remark was on point. Gratuitous upchuckery.

That scene at the start with the old people becoming pirates on a moving building was so creative and fun, and just hilarious. The first time I saw it I was so confused but also could not stop laughing.

*Monty Python's* manager from 1979 to 1997 is the *Oscar, BAFTA* and *Cesar* award winning producer *Steve Abbott* from *Bradford.* *Steve* also co-owns *Monty Python's* film and TV production companies, plus he has produced a lot of *Michael Palin's* documentary series. *Monty Python* filmed *Meaning of Life* and *Flying Circus* in at least 15 different locations across *Bradford* (no doubt many more as someone who has only seen occasional sketches). *Monty Python* is where *Monty Python* super fan *JK Rowling,* got a lot of her stuff for *Harry Potter,* yet barely anyone realises. She got the idea for the name *Harry Potter* from the *Sci-Fi Sketch* in *Pudsey, Leeds.* She got the idea for the *Dursley family* introduction from the *Sci-Fi Sketch* in *Pudsey, Leeds.* She got the idea for the *Gryffindor* colours from the *Sci-Fi Sketch* in *Manningham, Bradford.* Plus many more things from other sketches, such as the various names for the sweets. The *Sci-Fi Sketch* also filmed on some streets less than 1 mile West of me.

I was won/lost at the "Get that will you Deirdre?" moment . Followed by the Sergeant Major marching up and down the square... Then the "A tiger in Africa?"" and I lost it completely!

The dude from “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids” was Rick Moranis.

I saw this in the cinema when it first came out. Hilarious!! Almost missed my last bus home. They blew most of the budget on dance scenes for Every Sperm …..

Hitchhiker's Guide is worth a watch

You can get a album with all of pythons songs on it.its called monty python sings. Highly recommended

I went school with a lad who sang Every sperm is sacred.

Part VI - "How does it make it's way through the cutting room": This ist the best scene ever. When I saw it in the movie theater, the three girls next to me hid on the floor behind the chairs for 4 minutes and didn't dare to look out. I had to laugh like never before... for over 4 minutes :)

Regarding the Officer Corps, something which might change your perception of how it might have been: In WWI the life expectancy of a junior officer was 6 weeks.

My parents stopped playing the Monty Python album in the car when I told my year 2 teacher (age 6-7) that Every Sperm is Sacred was my favourite song :D

This video made me realise how much I miss Terry Jones. He was a bonafide legend.

Pretty much there is left to be proud about in being British is Monty Python..

This was made back when movies were shown in theatres with a small supporting film being shown beforehand. Terry Gilliam (the Pythons' animation man) basically blew almost the whole budget on the opening film...

From an interview with Terry Jones at the time it was released: "Its a bit gruesome in parts isn't it?" "Yes it is" "You like things to be really gruesome then?" "Yes" "What's the most gruesome thing you like from the film?" "Terry Gilliam."

Yes!!! Watch 40 more times. I have!!!

So many movies and tv shows. Always loved catching them whenever I can. They originally had a show calked Do Not Adjust Your Set begore they became the Python crew we now know. Other movies (mentioned or not), Search For The Holy Grail, And Now For Something Completely Different, Jabberwocky, Live At The Hollywood Bowl, Yellowbeard and Life of Brian. Probably missing a couple, but all worth the watch!

Some things are just sacred 🤣

Definitely Python's most experimental and 'out there' film, apparently it was promoted as "guaranteed to offend absolutely everyone". 😆

It's quite normal in the UK to eat toast with a knife and fork if is used to absorb the beans and egg at breakfast. I suspect this was fried bread, which used to be popular to have with a fried breakfast and was eaten with a knife and fork.

After coming out the cinema I think there were a few hundred people singing or humming Every Sperm is Sacred. Now whenever somebody is really full after a big meal, it's almost mandatory in the UK to ask them, in a french accent of course, 'would you like one wafer thin mint?'. Seeing Mr Creosote in action on the big screen was almost vomit-inducing, it's not as effective on TV.

My favourite Python film. Also, you guys should check out "Monty Python: Live at the Hollywood Bowl" next.

Monty Python makes you scratch your head, but then (sometimes years later) you say, "Oh shit... I understand that now".

This really is the meaning of life. Philosophy made clear.

Oh the teenage me has great memories of watching this when it came out😂😂😂

I love that you guys made it through this bucket of LSD. Well done.

Thier final show is a must

The movie budget was completely devoured by the costs of the "Every sperm" sequence. The production was on the brink of shutting down. Enter George Harrison, ex-Beatle and co-producer of "Life of Brian". Once again, he stepped up and put up all the money they needed to keep shooting the rest of the film.

I love Monty Python! It's amazing how they foreshadowed the future at the beginning, saying to the new mother that it's a bit early to be imposing roles on the baby. Maybe that is what all midwives say nowadays

The dance sequence for "Every Sperm is Sacred" blew the entire budget for the film, so they had to re-finance with some difficulty

The roman emperor didn't even appear in "Life of Brian". Do you mean Pontius Pilate?

that american actor you saw was also Max Headroom from the eightess. that robotic looking guy on the television

I gotta start laying off the potato chips or I'm going to start looking like Mr Creosote

"A waffer thin mint?"

Amazing. What a great video to wake up on my birthday and watch.

The kids from Every Sperm is Sacred were interviewed and said they loved it because they could say rude words 😁😁

One of my favourite films, and you two getting your melons messed with, is hilarious 😅

Check out "Erik the Viking." It's a Monty Python movie, although it wasn't billed as one. It stars Tim Robbins (Shawshank). It's about an awkward Viking hero that goes off on a quest to end the age of Ragnarok. It's directed by Terry Jones (Mr Creosote) and has him, John Cleese and Micky Rooney in it. I loved it. ••• PEACES!!!

Mr. Creosote is one of my favorite scenes ever since it actually made someone throw up. I was watching the movie with a couple of friends, one who hadn't seen it before. He's the one who threw up.

I think you would enjoy the various Micheal Palin travel programs. Starting from ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ to ‘Whatever the Most Recent One is’. His trip to North Korea maybe…?

American member of Monty Python, filmmaker Terry Gilliam, directed the opening sequence. It's like a grander version of his animations in the original show. The other Terry (Jones) directed most of this film.

(Sir) Michael Caine cameo appearance at 45:25

Meaning of Life is my favorite.

Rick Moranis was not harmed during the making of this film.

This movie got a ton of flak for being so much more gratuitous and outrageous than anything Monty Python had done before. But honestly, I bet the only thing preventing them from having produced this kind of thing all along was the constraint of Flying Circus’s daytime TV PG rating. I bet they’d always wanted to make glorious filth like this.

It has some of the best and most polished Python moments, but as a cohesive film I prefer the previous 2 for enjoyment.

There was another interview with Terry Jones where he was called out over some of the content and he said they had filmed a lot of sequences they had expected to be cut from the film by Universal. However Universal decided to release it uncut. He said he and the others were appalled by the decision and regretted a lot of what they did onscreen. Though as Jones wrote the Mr Creosote sketch and Eric Idle says he's proud of the film because of its "punk" nature and the fact its still upsetting people today, I think you need to take it with a pinch of salt. The liver doners sketch is the one I used to skip because it was too gratuitously nasty and more disturbing than funny especially with the gore being foregrounded and Gilliam's screams being far too realistic to be funny. I see where the joke is meant to be but they could have filmed it differently. It casts a shadow over the rest of the film for me. I guess that's why they are the first two people we see in the heaven sequence.

In the Mr Creosote scene, the fake puke used was condensed minestrone soup. By the fourth day of shooting, the set was apparently filled with the most outrageous stench! 🤮

Your release of this film is just a perfect sync here, lads. 1983. I watched a midnight premiere in Leicester Square, London with my BFF. It confused us too! Just a couple of days ago we were all talking about the birth of our first son (26th of June) and how I, in full labour, threw lethal weapons at my husband. It was a cardboard bowl to pee in. Bloody Sperm!!!!!! :o)

An acting friend of mine was in the "Every Sperm is Sacred" scene when he was a kid. What an accolade!

The reason the 'Mr Creosote' section got past the sensors is because it's British humour & It's disgustingly funny. You either get it or you don't. Oh... spoiler alert, the vomit wasn't real!

I saw this in the theatre on mushrooms. It made total sense to me.

The sperm song is a big parody of the musical film Oliver too!

Yes - do The Rutles!

Try this one too: "Brazil" - by Terry Gilliam (from the Pythons) - another legenadary one with Robert De Niro

1:09:12 The symbolism is greed. People being prepared to take take take. Consume consume consume.

This was the movie that, when I first saw it 35 years ago, turned me from a dutiful church going lad into a confirmed atheist. Thank God!

Not quite ‘The Trilogy’. Monty Pythons first film was: ‘And Now For Something Completely Different’ which was a collection of sketches from their BBC TV Series, recreated as a feature film.

fav movie from them but they are all good.

42 in base 13. What does 42 mean in the Hitchhiker's Guide? You may ask, watch the film to find out.

Glad for the Bob Mortimer nickname

Great video guys. I thought the start would confuse you. It's my favorite python movie, Life of Brian coming in close second place.

That's definitely part of the movie.

I saw this when it was released and I can't wait to see you react to the Fishy Fishy Oh bit 😅

Lovely, guys! I discovered Python in the mid-90’s, when I was about eleven. This one was always considered to be the lesser movie of the three (if you would exclude ”And now for something completely different” (1971) and ”Live at the Hollywood Bowl” 1982). It is slowly growing into a masterpiece, I feel, and I know I’m not alone in feeling this. It’s so fucking vile and gruesome in parts that it’s hard to imagine this gang made ”Flying Circus” 14 years prior. I heavily suggest you to check out the documentary called ”Monty Python: Almost the truth - The lawyer’s cut” from 2009. It’s fan-bloody-tastic! I love your stuff, boys! Wrap up your Christmas Specials of ”The Office” and PLEASE get to the second Gervais/Merchant masterpiece that is ”Extras”. 🤟🥂🔥

Monty Python: *makes 'Life of Brian' Fundamentalists and other idiots: *Get angry for no bloody reason Monty Python: "Oh, really? Hold my f***ing beer and watch this." *makes 'Meaning of Life'

I’d love to see you guys watch The Holy Mountain - but the edit and cleaning up the blown minds, I don’t know?

Like all Python releases, absolute genius!

BTW, that was just like my school, honest! 😆

There is a great version of The Galaxy Song with Dr Brain Cox and Eric idle point out the mistake in this song, well worth a look