As I alluded to in Friday's post, I finally watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Ahh … British humor.
From the 70s.
Oh boy.
I happen to like a lot of British 70s stuff: Platform shoes. Genesis. Outrageously colored mohawks. Yes. Queen (both the band and the monarchy).
But, I was not prepared to like Monty Python at all. I can't really put my finger on why I felt this way. It's simply something I instinctively felt an aversion to … kinda like puppet shows and Jim Carrey movies.
I was wrong.
On two counts.
#1: Jim Carrey is simply amazing in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". I take back my natural aversion to dramatic Jim Carrey movies.
#2: Monty Python and the Holy Grail was pretty funny. I take back my natural aversion to Monty Python movies.
The basic premise of the movie is a search for the Holy Grail by King Arthur and his Knights.
Seriously. I had no idea that I would actually find this movie funny. I knew it was supposed to be funny, but still. I had my doubts. What is funny to one person is completely stupid and inane to another.
Funny is a relative thing.
I give you the Three Stooges as Exhibit A.
So color me shocked to find Monty Python funny.
The dudes riding up on "horseback"? Hilarious.
The French soldier: "I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"? Hi. Larry. Us.
There were some things I didn't get, like the sudden switch from being a comedy to a musical to a cartoon, but I'm sure it makes sense in a deeper realm of thinking than I'm currently residing. On the surface, it's just odd.
To recap: Saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail and I liked it. I found parts of it hilarious and other parts odd, which is kinda how I find most people. Kudos to the Monty Python people for creating a movie that is still funny almost forty years later. I now have a new appreciation for 70s British humor.
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Monty Python is Great!! I actually own a set of coconuts. I only know one person who doesn't find that movie funny and she's a Patriots fan so her taste is already suspect. :P
ReplyDeleteI laughed so hard at the coconuts that I had to pause the movie! Hmm … I think I know who it is you are referring to in your comment and I would agree that her taste is questionable. The fact that she finds Tom Petty sexy is enough to discredit her. :)
DeleteUmm, I don't know who's eyes you're using but Tom Petty IS sexy! :)
DeleteMonty Puthon IS stupid, and Tom Petty IS sexy, and the New England Patriots RULE!!!
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Now try growing up on that movie.... My brother once split a solid wooden cutting board in half with his face when reenacting the monk scene. Classic.
ReplyDeleteThat is hilarious! But only if your brother is okay. If he was mortally wounded it wouldn't be quite so funny.
DeleteMy bust a gut moment? "It's only a flesh wound!" I guess that says something about me...
ReplyDeleteYeah, that got me too!
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