Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Movie Reaction | FIRST TIME WATCHING 

My absolute favourite joke is the running gag about the swallows and the coconuts. And how it culminates at the end where the king can ask an informed clarification. His response, "You have to know these things when you're king" kills me. It's so funny to me. But my brother and I quote Dennis' scene all the time. Just because some moistened bint lobed a scimitar at you... LOL

The irony is that they were arrested for killing "Famous Historian" but they didn't do it...the guy who killed Famous Historian was on horseback-with a real horse-and everyone in Arthur's group had to make due with coconuts.

Congrats on figuring out the black screen lack of credit joke at the end. I have been watching reactions to this for ever and you are the first one to figure it out, well played sir.👍🤣

The non-ending is equal parts frustrating and amazing. It’s also a call back to their other work (like Monty Python’s flying circus) where they often didn’t know how to end a skit and would have a cop come in and stop the whole thing because it had become too silly.

I watched this in 1978 with my older brother and both on strawberry double barrel acid ... face hurt from laughing and on floor with tears ... all time favourite movies 62 years old tomorrow and still laugh watching it . ps. Led Zepplen helped finance the movie .

28:23 - "This is the best callback joke I have ever seen. And it almost doesn't even exist." Wow, I had not 'seen' that joke, you opened my eyes. And you said it so beautifully.

I will always maintain that the COPOUT ENDING is one of the greatest stealth jokes ever conceived.

What I love about this movie that a lot of people miss is how they really played off the medieval King Arthur tales. A lot of the stuff in this movie was actually in the original tales, except in the movie it was expanded to the point of absurdity.

Lots of stuff about this movie. Funding from rock stars made "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" possible. Cleese and his fellow Pythons had to find $400,000, and the money eventually came from bands including Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. If you look in the background through the movie, you'll see people swinging cats at stuff. The enchanter being named Tim was supposedly a forgotten line... Cleese got there and forgot what his name was supposed to be so he just said Tim and the rest of the cast went with it. During the witch scene, at one point, Eric Idle has to bite his farm tool to keep from laughing waiting on Cleese to deliver his line. You see the police at various scenes as they follow Arthur... at the shrubbery they gave to the Knights, at the cave of the Vorpal Bunny, etc. The taunts by the French guard are great... you cheesy lot of second-hand electric donkey bottom biters! etc. ;)

The ending is a literal cop out. Saw this in a theater with a big audience, and seeing peoples' reaction at the end, sitting flabbergasted in the theater, trying to figure it out, is priceless.

If you've ever seen their TV show, you would not find the ending unusual. It's Python. Absurd. Surreal. Silly and yet clever.

By the the way, this movie's German title is "Die Ritter der Kokosnuss", which means "The Knights of the Coconut". 🙂🙂🙂

The ending is a *literal* cop-out 😆

The story of the group performing and dealing with the awful conditions, and Graham's own personal issues during the shoot, makes it all the more amazing that this gem was made. The Terrys (Jones and Gilliam) really made it work. This is one for the ages.

If you want singing, you have to see "Spamalot", the musical based on the film. It's fantastic! The original cast featured Tim Curry as Arthur.

I don't know what my favorite joke in this movie is, but back in the seventies when I first saw it, I would crack up at the line "What a strange person," said during their first encounter with the French taunter. I don't know why that made me laugh so much, maybe just the way he said it and its incommensurate mildness. I also loved the faux-biblical wording when they were revealing the Holy Hand Grenade - the Book of Armaments, "blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy," etc.

Before Star Wars the credits were usually at the beginning of the movie, Lucas couldn't put both the credits and the long scroll, so he moved the credits to the back of the movie and that's when it became mainstream to do it.

I always wondered about Bedevere's slow jump down at 6:45. It's such a small and subtle thing, but gravity is clearly meant to be less for him than a normal human.

The best joke is the intermission. We saw it the day it came out. In the theater ppl actually left their seats, including me, only to have to run back as the intermission was timed to get you up but only as far as the isle. Brilliant!

I love this movie, I used to watch it everyday. The comedy is so layered that you find more to laugh at with every viewing, even watching this video there were things that you picked up on that I missed. I think about random scenes and quotes from this movie that make me laugh all the time. For me it was really fun to watch your reactions because it was like showing your favourite movie to a friend to see them laugh at the funny parts. Some of my favourite lines were missed though like "pitchez la vache" lol or "nope, too perilous" 🤣but like you said it's a lot to get all of it. Thank you for this video it was very enjoyable and made this movie fresh for me again.

I think the funniest thing when watching reactions to this movie is watching the "WTF" face when the screen goes black at the end. Waiting...waiting....huh? One thing I didn't notice for a long time was that the French guy at the castle mispronounced the word "knights" as "ka-nnnnigits".

I love the whole scene of the dirt farmers arguing about class, but I think my favorite line is after Arthur says, "A duck!" and Bedevere says, "Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?"

@17:49 is my favorite comedic gag ever put to film honestly lol never gets old

THAt WAS GREAT! Loved how the ending got you - it was a literal cop-out. You sat there waiting and anticipating, as almost everyone does. Lots of the Flying Circus sketches end abruptly with a cop arresting or military officer halting the players. Or they just transition with no warning into another unrelated sketch. So this ending follows in the same style. Liked your "smoke 'em if ya got 'em" at intermission. I think my favorite scene is 24 with the old man who disappears. It is just so well done. What with the costumes and cinematography and the great acting, they could have made a fantastic serious period piece. My favorite joke is the ongoing saga of coconut and swallows. Your suggestion that Lancelot could just pretend to be a guest did not fit his idiom. That popped into my head as you said it. Oh, and before Star Wars the credits were always up front and we just got "The End" at the end. Glad you didn't have a seizure from the llamas. I had so much fun watching you have fun with this. I have been enjoying this movie since it came out, never gets dull.

I seriously needed this, thank you. I absolutely love this movie, and Monty Python in general. But laughing at certain parts where you started laughing too, was fun. Good reactions, Jay. Thank you!

The end is such a troll. When you asked at the beginning why the credits were so long, I was thinking "wait for it...". As for why no grail...well...it's Monty Python. There being a grail would make sense.

One of the most quotable movies since Airplane. I love this movie. We've watched Monty Python ever since they had their tv show back in the early 70's. I loved your reaction, especially to the ending. It's in my collection. I can't tell you what my favorite joke is. So many! RUNAWAY! RUNWAY!

This is definitely their best work in my opinion!!

love the way you got the end joke , imagine waiting in the cinema while that music played thinking its going to say something

Older movies front loaded the more important credits at the beginning of the movie, and only a smaller section at the end, sometimes not at all. But the crew for this movie was small, they didn’t have enough credits to add any at the end. It does play into a good long payoff joke though.

"because she looks like one!!" Always makes me laugh

I love that movie so much! Glad you finally got to check it out! My favorite gag is Sir Lancelot, running at the castle and never getting closer til he just suddenly appears there and starts murdering everyone!

Yes, they pretty much did split the knights up so everyone could play different roles... but even later in the movie, they still do other roles and have extras with their faces hidden playing that person's knight so both characters can be be on screen at once. Also, the ending is... quite literally... a "cop out" ;)

"Well I could stay a BIT longer!" omg I can't even.

"Holy Handgranade" used in Worms games, was indeed from this movie. "Bridge Of Death" is featured in other game "Fallout 2" as random encounter, where 3rd question was some trivia knowledge about Fallout games, with "what do you mean? **option 1** or **option 2** ?" Answer.

In old movies, the credits appear on the start of the film and the movie just ends with "The End". It's only in the 70s that majority of movies started to move the credits to the end. The film credited with making this popular is not surprisingly George Lucas' Star Wars, although the film wasn't the first to do so. Terry Jones did a docu-series about medieval people called Medieval Lives. It's absolutely informative and also hilarious to boot. You could also see where the research into medieval history went in The Holy Grail film.

First, King Arthur never found the Grail so this part of the movie is accurate. Second, the ending is... a cop out! Literally! Third, this is probably my fav Monty Python movie right next to The Meaning of Life (they swap spots depending on my mood) And finally, fourth... I'd recommend watching the tv series, Monty Python's Flying Circus, which had 4 seasons spanning 45 episodes. It might be a bit hard to edit for youtube (I foresee lots of cuts, muted moments and flipped footage) but the show if worth it.

I watched in 9th grade and I didn't get much of the jokes at the time, but I was practicing Ninjitsu and my friends and I endlessly quoted "'Tis but a flesh wound" at both serious and not serious situations and combat sessions, so the black night has a warm place in my heart =P

The coconut joke actually came about cos they couldn't afford horses!

I still remember the first time I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I was at my friends cabin when I was 14. I’d never heard of Monty Python before and my friend put the DVD in without telling me what was going on. I laughed so hard my sides hurt. And to this day that movie remains one of my all time favourites.

Arthur CAN do it... but don't call me Shirly! lol

For so gallantly undertaking this reaction, we shall not say Ni to you again, nor shall we taunt you a second time. Something that’s particularly weird in its accuracy in this movie is that there really are medieval illustrations depicting murderous rabbits. The white rabbit in the movie was loaned to the Pythons. What they didn’t realize until later was that the red dye they used wouldn’t properly wash out of the fur, so, much to the owner’s dismay, they ended up with a pink rabbit.

Sir Bedivere's face guard is basically 2 vertical bars that block his vision so he has to raise it to see properly, that's the joke that most don't get. LOL

The ending was a literal "cop out".

28:00 "I'm going to need both the Grail and credits." HA!!! And you will get NEITHER!!! 😆

My favorite joke in the entire film: Prince Herbert: You got my note! Sir Lancelot: Well, I got A note... It's subtle but it cracks me up every time.

Awesome Movie and Work Bro, Thanks 👍😀 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮

"It's just a flesh wound." "Ni." "Oh, naughty, naughty Zoot!" "Couldn't I please have just a little peril? No, it's too perilous." "She turned me into a newt.... I got better." "That rabbit is dynamite!"

Oh you smarty pants, you get their humour! My favorite thing is the way King Arthur can never get any co-operation from the characters with lower-class accents, who have facts and logic and ideological insight on their side.

20:59 -- the animator was also the director, who was also the first coconut guy (Patsy), and the only American in the group, Terry Gilliam.

11:44 -- Robin's minstrel wrote most of the songs for the Beatles parody film, the Rutles, in which he also played the "John Lennon" character. You should definitely check that out.

Such a great movie. Pretty much every line is quotable. Probably my favorite joke is the animator dying.

I just showed a buddy from work this movie.

In the principal tales and legends of the Grail, the supposed chalice, while treated as a revered object, is more significant symbolically, as a spiritual goal.

My favorite joke is “run away” because English hadn’t adopted the French word “retreat” yet.

26:12 I really like that music 'The Promised Land' with the ship. Fantastic and powerful music.

Fun Fact for you, Jay: The actress who plays "The Witch" was the then wife of John Cleese( the guy who'd said, "She Turned Me Into A Newt")

The castle Anthrax has 8 score blondes and brunettes- a score is 20 so that's would be 160 girls.

Most older films had the credits at the beginning.

fav jokes/lines/scenes: - "bring out your dead" - Black Knight takedown - "i'm shaking my genitals in your general direction!" - this whole scene w/ the frenchman - "what is your favorite color?" "blue..no, yelloooooooooo" - the killer rabbit scene If you like Gilliam's animation and haven't watched it yet, Time Bandits is one of his best works along w/ Brazil

Enjoyed your reaction extremely you got all the jokes a lot of people don’t…. Wish I would’ve seen that in the theater when I came out with you

The joke at the end suggests the ending was a real, 'cop out.'

17:46 Lol! Yeah, he is going to do something like that... :)

I've seen other Reactions to the black screen musical ending to the Holy Grail. They didn't get it but you got it, with the Sacking of the people doing the credits. However they're Reactions were also so Python induced! Just funny.

Of course they don't find the Grail and get arrested in a different time period. That is Monty Python. :) The number of callbacks to a swallow carrying a coconut is pure genius LOL

A five ounce bird! Could not carry a one pound coconut!?

15:33 "Bloody weather!"

The reason for lifting the visor, is because the vertical bars are right in front of his eyes, and he can’t see. And he is supposed to be the “smart” one.

wow i never thought about how the people in charge of credits were fired being the reason for the black screen at the end :P

The credits came first and the real Holy Grail has never been found.

youwill remember it forever ,,, i'v had it in my head for 47yrs

19:43, I’ve never noticed this before, but Graham’s hand is shaking a lot. I wonder if he had DTs during this scene. I know he got them during the Bridge of Death scene, but I wasn’t sure if he continued to have them throughout the whole film.

5:01 Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

This was my gateway to Monty Python as a kid, Check out A Fish Called Wanda which stars John Cleese and Michael Palin along with Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline who won best supporting actor for it. It’s hysterical.

You are so right about it just being silly. They all come from highly educated backgrounds but the MP humour is essentially just being silly .

Always get a like and comment love . Keep growing bb

So the journey is the quest ……. I wish I would’ve seen you. I wish I would’ve seen this with you back. This came out in the theater.

Lancelot was canonically something of a hothead.

Love this reaction - it's one of my fav films - but you will get more jokes the more time you watch - too much going on - same for the life of Brian 😊

I wanna LIKE this one more times !! Best reaction to this Classic so far🤗Glad you enjoyed it …and “got” it 👍 Thanks for sharing 😁✨

If you ever get the chance read some of the behind the scene stuff, it's super interesting...George Harrison of the Beatles is the reason this movie even got made, and the coconut joke happened because they couldn't afford horses which then turned into another running joke about swallows caring them then it turned into another runner just about swallows...just really cool how these guys were able to do so much despite many many set backs and were able to carve gold out of them. Oh and a good game to play with these movies is find Terry Gilliam, he never has a leading part and very few lines.

Watch all the Monty Python you can. The main six play multiple roles in everything.

The ending was a literal cop out.

Fun Fact: The ending is only as it is because they ran out of money, the original plan was for arthur to fail to storm the castle only to be saved by a group of swallows dropping coconuts

I was 3 when this came out. I first watched it when I was 6. I read that they ran out of money so instead of the battle they did the police arrest scene

The 70s were heavy in surrealism, particularly British surrealism. Monty Python were at the forefront of that movement, but it's definitely not for everyone. But that's kind of the point...pushing the limits of comedy and testing how hard they could troll their audience without losing them.

"What, the curtains?"

I love the Python films. They're so funny

Great reaction! (now I want a PBR) Hard to pick a favorite joke . . .

Credit guys were sacked at the beginning 😆

Yes! 🤘

Reference to the black plague

It was a true COP OUT ending

Back in the day the Credits came before the movie or tv shows. So there wouldnt be one anyway at the end. :)

Terry Gilliam does the art for Monty Python along with directing and playing multiple roles, including the bridge keeper. He’s also directed a bunch of movies like fear and loathing in Las Vegas and 12 monkeys. You should react to his 1985 movie Brazil. Great reaction by the way. Now I have to watch a bunch more. Probably start with the princess bride and then watch clue. You should react to Willow as well!

you forgot: you also need to look for the moose in the third scene to the end.

FWIW, since you and I are among the rare people who liked Holy Grail over Life of Brian, you should definitely check out my personal favorite Python film, Meaning of Life. It's more skit-oriented, which plays well to their strengths. And yet it still manages to have some really solid brick jokes / callback jokes between the skits.

28:15 The joke is really just the abrupt ending, not the lack of end credits. Prior to _Star Wars_ (1977), credits were at the start by convention.

stone cold classic for sure!

After facing the ferocity of a French taunting my life was ruined.