Monty Python’s Holy Grail is one of the most celebrated and beloved comedies of all time. Released in 1975, the movie was made and produced by Great Britain’s Monty Python, a sketch comedy group well-known for their absurd and fantastically unique humor. The six members of Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) also played almost every role in the movie, from the main characters and villains to random witch-hunting peasants. Monty Python, and especially this movie, was an indelible part of 1970s pop culture, their influence on comedy often being compared to the Beatles influence on music. This movie stands as one of their greatest and most well-known works, and it is a wonder to behold. Monty Python and the Holy Grail tells the story of King Arthur’s search for the Holy Grail, albeit reimagined in the Pythons’ own, rather unique style. Here for the viewer’s pleasure is a tale of knights, rabbits, Frenchmen, Enchanters, and aaaarrgghh. Here is the greatest surreal comedy film ever to exist. The film’s non-linear storytelling, combined with its quick, witty writing and absurd versions of classic fantasy tropes takes a stock-standard English myth and turns it into a beautiful, hilarious tale that wanders about itself like a rabbit made of wood. The lines are endlessly quotable, the acting is strange and magnificent to behold, and the overall low-budget styling of the film make it feel like a treasure dug up from some ancient basement, just waiting to be watched by a cozy fire. Now, this movie is not for everyone. Comedy is subjective and therefore will very rarely appeal to all. However, this movie’s fantastic writing and significant lack of suggestive material (save one small section) helps it immensely. While the movie has violence, its purposely low quality acts as an enticement, rather than a dissuasion from enjoying it. Many people enjoy watching terrible movies, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail provides something completely unique; a purposefully terrible-seeming movie that surprises in its excellence. It is truly a wonder to behold, and one of the greatest comedy films this writer has ever had the pleasure of watching. 5 out of 5 stars! - Trevor Winder Image sources: IMDb, Mental Floss If you want to write for the Crescent Crier, we would love to see you at one of our virtual meetings, which are every Wednesday at 1:30pm! To come to a meeting, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/TrQ5PqFcDqeE2yiB9, and we’ll send you a link ASAP. If you would like to submit a single article - or anything else like creative writing, an opinion, an art piece, photo or photo series, or something else entirely - then you can do that using this form: https://forms.gle/WAHSoWJuVwK3q5du6. If you want to contact us for any reason, you can email
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