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List Price: $28.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 5790
Released: January 29, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray |
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| Features:
Anamorphic Color Dolby Subtitled Widescreen | |
Editorial Review:
On a Midnight Clear 2000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an infant called Brian...and the three wise men are in the wrong manger. For the rest of his life, Brian (Graham Chapman) finds himself regarded as something of a Messiah, yet he's always in the shadow of this Other Guy from Galilee. Brian is witness to the Sermon of the Mount, but his seat is in such a bad location that he can't hear any of it ("Blessed are the cheesemakers?"). Ultimately he is brought before Pontius Pilate and sentenced to crucifixion, which takes place at that crowded, non-exclusive execution site a few blocks shy of Calvary. Rather than utter the Last Six Words, Brian leads his fellow crucifixees in a spirited rendition of a British music hall cheer-up song "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life." The whole Monty Python gang (Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, and Terry Gilliam) are on hand in multiple roles, playing such sacred characters as Stan Called Loretta, Deadly Dirk, Casts the First Stone, and Intensely Dull Youth; also showing up are Goon Show veteran Spike Milligan and a Liverpool musician named George Harrison.
Description of Monty Python's Life Of Brian - The Immaculate Edition [Blu-ray]:
"Blessed are the cheesemakers," a wise man once said. Or maybe not. But the point is Monty Python's Life of Brian is a religious satire that does not target specific religions or religious leaders (like, say, Jesus of Nazareth). Instead, it pokes fun at the mindless and fanatical among their followers--it's an attack on religious zealotry and hypocrisy--things that that fellow from Nazareth didn't particularly care for either. Nevertheless, at the time of its release in 1979, those who hadn't seen it considered it to be quite "controversial." Life of Brian, you see, is about a chap named Brian (Graham Chapman) born December 25 in a hovel not far from a soon-to-be-famous Bethlehem manger. Brian is mistaken for the messiah and therefore manipulated, abused, and exploited by various religious and political factions. And it's really, really funny. Particularly memorable bits include the brassy Shirley Bassey/James Bond-like title song; the bitter rivalry between the anti-Roman resistance groups, the Judean People's Front and the People's Front of Judea; Michael Palin's turn as a lisping, risible Pontius Pilate; Brian urging a throng of false-idol worshippers to think for themselves--to which they reply en masse "Yes, we must think for ourselves!"; the fact that everything Brian does, including losing his sandal in an attempt to flee these wackos, is interpreted as "a sign." Life of Brian is not only one of Monty Python's funniest achievements, it's also the group's sharpest and smartest sustained satire. Blessed are the Pythons. --Jim Emerson
Monty Python's Life Of Brian - The Immaculate Edition [Blu-ray] Reviews:
It's the little things that make this movie, but what are they? 
2009-10-24 - We fans can rave endlessly about the geniuses behind "Life of Brian", but (like most good humor) it is pointless to try to define where that genius lies. Think of the scene with Pontius Pilate: it was probably funny on paper and even in rehearsal, but it will live as a great comic scene because of Michael Palin's superb delivery. Not just his lisp, but his facial expressions as he tries new phrases and watches for the audience reaction. Is this expert direction? Is it intuitively Palin's doing, because of his experience in sketch humor? Did it evolve, like Topsy, from the critical mass of comedy talent involved?
Another thing that puzzles me as I watched the documentary about the shows, the people, and the movies: I can remember seeing the shows for the first time and feeling threatened by the humor. Were they attacking me? And values I held? I couldn't relax and go along with the joke until about the third time through, when my kids were roaring at the zaniness. So: did I change or did my sense of humor adapt to something I knew was acceptedly funny despite being profane and bawdy and just plain silly?
And who cares, really?
One of the funniest movies ever
2009-10-17 - You have to not take it too seriously, especially if you are an easily offended christian. It is about a regular guy who get's mistaken for the Messiah. There are so many great parodies of some of the dumb things that people do, like breaking into the sect of the gourd or the shoe and fighting about it. Love this movie. Always remember, "Look on the bright side of life..."
meh, this seems like its more hype than anything. 
2009-10-07 - I would have to say I love Monty Python, but this has be the least funny of the 3 movies. Wheres the wit? Wheres the exaggeration? wheres the low blows? the movie feels like a bad episode of Family Guy where the tired out the jokes are repeated. The characters were not believable either. what happen to the social commentary? while it does poke at religion, the jokes seem more stereotypical than smart (wheres the history lesson?). Was the joke about the nose poking at the Jews or was it just a bit they stuck in? It seems like they got all the right elements for a super funny movie, but they decided not to refine it. Maybe the movie was just still too PC and not offensive enough to be funny.
Hey!
2009-09-12 - C'mon! It's Python!
Added bonus: this is the one that REALLY irked the zealots.
a high def review
2009-07-05 - yes its a great movie we all know that,what is lacking is a translation to high def;and i was thrilled, in other words the picture was crystal clear as if it was a recent movie and the sound levaling was spot on forget about the movie the point is,is it worth the purchase evan if you have a vhs or dvd copy of it,and of course the answer is yes!
