Monty Python's Flying Circus is fun yet totally exhausting to watch, as their style is to test how long they can take a surreal bit and stretch it to the limit, and beyond, something the original cast of Saturday Night Live borrowed, but more conventionally...
For me the best thing about any Python film or sketch are the parts of its sum, that is, the members, each one very talented, and seeing who plays who and who does what, when and how...
The "straight man" Graham Chapman has always been a personal favorite, and is a great actor playing all the lead titular roles in the films, King Arthur, Brian... but here as he wrestles himself he's far more physical and wacky then I ever realized... that was neat to experience...
Chapman gave Cleese a run for his money, and was funnier than the Popular Python who does his fan-favorite Silly Walks, which is like hearing a band playing their overhyped sit songs in concert (like The Rolling Stones rushing through their encores)...
Fans of Python won't learn much here if you've seen it before on Flying Circus or the movies; however you will see each member stretching out in a live venue: that is, despite the audience laughing and cheering way too much for just about anything, making the real funny stuff seem equal to the mediocre stuff...
Basically what this movie does is give you the fellas as they are. In the flesh. And always so great together.
For me the best thing about any Python film or sketch are the parts of its sum, that is, the members, each one very talented, and seeing who plays who and who does what, when and how...
The "straight man" Graham Chapman has always been a personal favorite, and is a great actor playing all the lead titular roles in the films, King Arthur, Brian... but here as he wrestles himself he's far more physical and wacky then I ever realized... that was neat to experience...
Chapman gave Cleese a run for his money, and was funnier than the Popular Python who does his fan-favorite Silly Walks, which is like hearing a band playing their overhyped sit songs in concert (like The Rolling Stones rushing through their encores)...
Fans of Python won't learn much here if you've seen it before on Flying Circus or the movies; however you will see each member stretching out in a live venue: that is, despite the audience laughing and cheering way too much for just about anything, making the real funny stuff seem equal to the mediocre stuff...
Basically what this movie does is give you the fellas as they are. In the flesh. And always so great together.