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Die legendäre Komiker-Truppe Monty Python sucht nach Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen menschlichen Daseins. Ob Geburt, Tod, Organverpflanzung, Sexualaufklärung, erbitterte Kriege, Fische, Penisse und Pfefferminzblättchen: In ihren Sketchen lassen die durch geknallten Briten nichts aus, um dem Sinn des Lebens auf die Spur zu kommen. (TELE 5)
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Und nachdem die Zirkusleute uns einen Einblick in die Anfänge der modernen Zivilisation und ihre harten ritterlichen Anfänge gegeben hatten, mussten sie erklären, warum wir hier sind. Kurzgeschichten aus verschiedenen Phasen des menschlichen Lebens, schön zerhackt und scharf gewürzt. Zweifellos das abartigste Werk von Monty Python. Einige der Szenen sind etwas schwächer, aber andere haben sich so sehr ins Gedächtnis eingebrannt, dass sie selbst mit Savo und Verdünnung nicht mehr zu entfernen sind. Bring mir einen Eimer, ich muss kotzen. Bravo, dreimal Bravo!
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When I first watched The Meaning of Life, I just didn't understand it, so I didn't find it funny at all. True, I enjoyed the vomiting scene, and it's actually the only one I remember. Along with the character of Death, who somehow continually fascinates me. Today, I understand the film more and find it funnier because I've come to appreciate absurd drama, but unfortunately, Monty Python has never quite resonated with me enough to adore them endlessly. The scenes have ideas, but I'm just not able to call this an absolutely brilliant film.
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The most daring, brutal, bloodiest, and above all, ultra-sexual film endeavor of this unforgettable troupe. And yet, undoubtedly the weakest of the golden trio. While The Life of Brian and Monty Python and the Holy Grail are consistently brilliant, The Meaning of Life is only occasionally so, and scenes like the one with the repeated vomiting felt awkward to me. But can anyone else come up with something as amazing as graphic sex education, gratitude in the trenches, or snippets from the Zulu War?
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Before Life of Brian, the Monty Python crew had a lot of plans and little money - after it, they had a lot of money and few shared plans. The group members went their separate ways and worked on their respective projects, while producers competed to finance their next joint film. The group gathered in Jamaica and tried to put together a new script, but it was very difficult because the ideas for the project were very different. John Cleese initially did not cooperate on the project at all. The group originally came up with the idea of Monty Python's Third World War as a parody of the commercialization of warfare, or the idea of a court trial where the group would be accused of the entire project of the new film being a grand tax fraud. All these ideas were lost and the film is actually a loose combination of a series of separate scenes lacking a solid story. As a result, the film is very fragmented and uneven. It contains excellent sketches and jokes alongside weaker moments where the point was simply lost. The Monty Python group away a considerable amount of material when working on the script and engaged in heated debates over the final form of the film. Terry Gilliam was the most criticized for his film The Crimson Permanent Assurance, which seemed too megalomaniacal and unnecessarily expensive to the other group members, simply not fitting into the overall concept of the film. The reception of The Meaning of Life both by critics and audiences was not very enthusiastic (everyone was simply satiated after Life of Brian), and the group members themselves felt dissatisfied. The Meaning of Life effectively meant the end of their collaboration, and all the members decided to go down their separate artistic paths. Most of them were successful, except for Graham Chapman who, in the few years he had left, didn't have time to do much. Overall impression: 80%.
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Narratively fragmented, with weaker moments interspersed with absolutely brilliant ones. But the brilliant ones prevail, as usual with Monty Python. The vomiting scene is absolutely unforgettable, you just don't see something so perversely funny every day.
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