Jabberwocky
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Actor: Annette Badland, Antony Carrick, Bernard Bresslaw, John Bird, Rodney BewesBrand: Sony
Primary Contributor: Michael Palin
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-23
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Jabberwocky
Movie Review: TERRY GILLIAM TRIES HIS HAND IN HORROR.....well sort of
Summary: 3 Stars
JABBERWOCKY starts off with the very talented Terry Jones as a poacher checking his traps. He suddenly encounters the JABBERWOCK which eats his body to the bones(great scene I might add the likes of George Romero and Peter Jackson)its the middle ages and the JABBERWOCK has terrified the land.
Enter Dennis Cooper(played by my favorite Python Michael Palin)a barrel maker who is in love with a VERY plus size girl who really wants nothing to do with him. I will not give the movie away and would like to point out some things I liked and did not like with this movie. I really do admire Terry Gilliam he is fantastic with the camera and can be compared to the likes of Lynch and Raimi. The GORE in this though limited is excellent and you really do feel like it is the dark ages. Michael Palin plays this straight and though I love ALL the Python actors any other would not have made it believable(meaning I would not have taken the role of Dennis seriously and would have been waiting for the punch-line ESPECIALLY if the role was given to Cleese)the disappointment in this film is that it really cannot make up its mind what it wants to be? Is it a HORROR film a comedy a adventure WHAT? Terry throws in some comic moments but has few successes in this he also throws in some HORROR but not enough and the script in the middle of the film is quite dry. Still I feel the good outweighs the bad by a small margin. Believe it or not I have this in my HORROR collection(right after ERASERHEAD 1977) for it looked out of place anywhere else. Python fans this is not a comedy at all do know this. This is based off a Lewis Caroll poem,I would love to see a Terry Gilliam HORROR picture though in truth I think this is as close as I will get.
Summary of Jabberwocky
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/13/2008 Run time: 92 minutes Rating: PgBy the late 1970s, Monty Python's resident animator and occasional performer, Terry Gilliam, was ready to direct a feature film on his own (he codirected Monty Python and the Holy Grail two years earlier). Returning to the medieval muck and monstrosities that served as a backdrop for Holy Grail, Gilliam chose a darker satire for this erratic but funny outing. The result was a witty, modernist fable about an unprepared hero (Michael Palin) pushed through a heroic journey by uncontrollable forces of destiny, propelling him into a duel with a fearsome, man-eating dragon called Jabberwock. Raunchy, irreverent, and borderline cynical, Jabberwocky reveals a lot of Gilliam's flaws as a first-time solo filmmaker, but it also serves as a map of his obsessions and extravagant sense of art direction--elements of his artistry that certainly flourished in subsequent works. --Tom Keogh
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