*MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL* lived up to the hype!! | First Time Watching REACTION 

Indeed, even murderous bunnies can be found depicted in medieval illustrations.

Life Of Brian, also!

Real life knights probably would’ve done the same stuff

Who can ever forget the glorious reign of King Arthur and his knights of the African Swallows?

Technically it's not historically correct but rather true to the mythos of King Arthur since the Pythons studied the material

Another factoid : Monty Python asked the British government to use a bunch of historical castles for the movie and the government refused. They eventually relented and let Monty Python use ONE castle. So, all the different castles you see in the movie are actually just the same castle from different angles and viewpoints, inside and outside.

The German title for the film ‘Die Ritter der Kokosnuß’ translates to ‘The Knights of the Coconut’… Similarly, the Hungarian title ‘Gyalog galopp’ translates to ‘Galloping on Foot’. [source: Wikipedia]

@@curtisbrack3398 Same castle was used as Winterfell in Season 1 of Game of Thrones.

John Cleese said in an interview that the budget was absolutely the reason. As you said they lacked the budget to rent horses but also no one knew how to ride a horse. They lacked both the time for them to learn and the budget to get them taught.

Even though, but that point, a whole army’s worth of people recognize him as King.

You nutty Germans.

And you also put voice actors on everything, so you never hear the real voices of actors, its very strange, here we only do that for children, otherwise we text all foreign shows.

@@andersandersen6295 I bought the DVD, so I know the original voices and yeah, it's better that way as are most if not all series and movies. That being said, I came to (re)appreciate the dubbing by actors. With voice deep fakes btw. it should be pretty easy to translate everything into every language.

I only appriciate it because i watched german television all my childhood and basically learned to speak and understand german that way.@@fabiankuntzig6507

Sounds a little too Marx Brothers.

the ending was a total cop out

There was a second castle they ended up using--while most of the castle shots were done at Doune Castle, the castle at the end was Castle Stalker.

Their “Chain Mail” armor was loosely knitted wool that was spray painted silver

I doubt it. The largest catapult (specifically a trebuchet, but that's a type of catapult) ever built was the Warwolf at the beginning of the 14th century. And even this exceptionally big ones had a weight limit for ammunition at around 140kg. A modern cow weights between 300kg up to more than 1000kg. A cow in the medieval age had a weight of at least 180kg. So even the biggest catapult ever was not able to throw even a relatively small cow. Most catapults were far smaller and only threw relatively small projectiles with maybe 11-25kg. Contrary to what many people might believe, catapults were not really designed to destroy walls or something, but were mostly used against people and could maybe damage battlements over time or destroy wooden parts (many castles and city walls had roofed superstructers made out of wood and/or wattle and daub ("tudor walls") on top). So if anything, they would maybe catapult parts of animals or small animals. But even then... the guys operating the catapults were expensive specialists and would've risked to get the diseases themselves, doesn't seem that likely. There are certainly stories and theories about it, but physics, practicality and lack of actual evidence make it look quite unlikely.

dont you mean a CAttlepult

​@@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei They are probably meaning Trebuchets, which are a type of catapult and the largest examples could allegedly throw stones weighing over a ton. Also don't forget that they don't need to throw a whole intact cow, just cut it into smaller more managable pieces and most catapults would have no trouble and would just need to make multiple throws.

@@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei trebuchets were big enough I believe

@@stephanginther9051 No. Did you even read my comment? Warwolf was the biggest trebuchet and it could not have thrown a cow. So other trebuchet couldn't have done it as well. Easy.

He even died in 2015 for a bit, for which he apologized (especially since he doing talks about his autobiography he had released).

@@SuddenReal Was it for tax reasons?

@@IvanToshkov No, Variety posted his (pre-written) obituary on their website by accident. It was up for a few hours before they spotted it and took it down.

"It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead."

Hahaha I love that. That movie for me is Pokemon: The First Movie 😂

Me too! In fact, I spent a couple years without a radio in my car (it had been stolen), so I spent car rides (often times several hours) acting out entire movies I’d seen too many times and had entirely memorized, including this one, The Princess Bride and The Sound of Music. Right around that time a friend of mine and I were helping our family-group leaders tear down wall paper and then paint in a house they bought and to pass the time we went through the movies, occasionally bartering who got to do particular parts. 😂 So much fun.

I always thought they rode the 'invisible horses' just as a gag...

@@jimhuffman9434 it was a gag ... due to budget restraints. Going without horses was not originally decided.

"Was Bismarck a Herring?"

@@jamesalexander5623That quest was merely a red herring.

Cut down a tree with a herring? *IT* can't be done

No, I remember when I first saw it in a theatre, and the music was there. We sat for several minutes with the black screen and music playing, wondering if there was supposed to be more. 😊

@@Yngvarfo It was a long time ago and I was almost certainly stoned so there's a chance I remember it wrong.

i didn't know that. they don't mention that in the commentary for the video. i didn't see "... holy grail" in theaters. but i did see "life of brian" in theaters when it first came out. our female dates were more shocked with graham's full frontal nudity than anything else.

Truly wise in the ways of science!

Tell me more about how sheep's bladders may be used to prevent earthquakes... 🤣🤣🤣

The ONLY horse in the entire film. :D Only one they could afford.

They thought they could just kill a guy and go on with their role playing.

This never occurred to me. Python is DEEP, brother. XD

@@tenjed4224 someone on a horse killed him, obviously not our guys.

@@Annonymous0283745 the woman thinks it was. Plus he could have changed gear. Ever see one go on a quest in dirty clothes? Heck, even the two who tried to storm the capital and got pooped on, started their charge in clean gear. It's movie magic. How am I supposed to know. All i can say is Ni.

@@pencilquest9409 they are stupid in their deepness. Which is perfect.

Quite funny, since Michael was playing the supposedly chaste Galahad.

Both kings and knights of that theatre.

I would’ve voted for them!

You're confusing him with wg griffith, a guy who directed famous film "Birth of a Nation"

_Erik the Viking_ is very much in that vein of humor as well.

@@0okamino 👍 True. Terry Jones directs and appears, as does John Cleese (and I think the old man who doesn't want to go on the cart is the berserker dad 🤔) But do not watch the 'Director's Cut', which is edited by Jones' son and the joke timing is all off.

@@LordVolkov Well, which song shall we sing to distract ourselves from the Director's Cut? Tum Tum Te Tum Tum or Tum Te Tum Te Tum? 😉

You omit their two sketch films: And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) and Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982).

Except the castle on the island, that's a different one

It would protect against (horizontal) slashing attacks, but not piercing.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!

The "Mister Creosote" scene? I haven't seen it in years but it really left a mark! 😱

For the relevant time period, the capital could also have been considered to be Nineveh.

@UnciaAmethice "the holy and grenade of Antioch" .... that's the joke. He didn't know even though they had just used the grenade.

Their 'chainmail' was just knitted wool, so they were slogging around Scotland in soggy woolen shrouds the entire time. Those boys suffered for that budget.

Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government!

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate of the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony!

Dennis the hyper-political peasant is my all time fave! "Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Did you see him repressing me?" 🤣🤣🤣 Just comedy gold.

@@LordVolkov I love how the references to the Lady of the lake get more and more disrespectful as he goes on - "watery tart" then "Moistened b..." And the fact that it's just deliciously anachronistic that you could have a peasant applying marxist analysis to life in the Dark Ages.