The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16 Ton Megaset
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Actor: Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry JonesDirector: Ian MacNaughton, Terry Hughes
Brand: A and E Home Video
Writer: John Cleese
Writer: Eric Idle
Writer: Graham Chapman
Writer: Angus James
Writer: David Lipscomb
Writer: Marty Feldman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Unknown; English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1749 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: A&E Home Video
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Box set; Color; DVD; NTSC
Movie Reviews of The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16 Ton Megaset
Movie Review: Hilarious- Need I Say More?
Summary: 5 Stars
Loony, surreal, weird, zany, wonderfully mad, hilarious... these are all words that can describe Monty Python's Flying Circus.
It all started with five British guys (and one enthusiastic American) who somehow got their own TV show. When Monty Python's Flying Circus first premiered, there was confusion. Flying sheep, a television show where deaths of famous people are rated, a joke that is used in WWII to laugh the Germans to death?
It's surreal and strange, but somehow, fits into this madcap world we all live in. It's so different from all the things on television now- where else can we find the Spanish Inquisition bursting in on an unsuspecting couple?- and absolutely hilarious.
Some of it gets old- who hasn't heard the Lumberjack song, or seen the Dead Parrot sketch?- but there are gems to be found. Restaurant sketch, Aliens Turning People Into Scotsman, Ypres 1914, Self Defense Against the Fresh Fruit, and many many others that will have you rolling on the floor, laughing hysterically.
This is an excellent show, a landmark in comedy. If you like the typical and are always questioning "Why did this happen? I don't get this," and are generally confused, then I wouldn't recommend Monty Python. You're just going to have to let it go. I've questioned at the beginning, but then realized that this is Monty Python. They do it because it's funny, not that it's logical.
On the two extra DVD's comes Live at Aspen, the Hollywood Bowl, 20 Years of Python (hosted by Steve Martin) and a German episode.
The best of the bunch is the Hollywood Bowl, seeing material never performed on Flying Circus and a hilarious moment that involves Terry Jones's wig falling off and Graham Chapman having to stand in front of him to cover up the incident. Next comes Live At Aspen, in which all the living (and not living) Pythons come together for a nice reunion. The talk is mostly what you could read in a Monty Python book or website, but has a few moments where we see the Pythons really together, either sharing secret jokes (what WAS Terry Gilliam doing with his finger in his water, laughing towards Michael Palin's direction?) or going back to their old habits ("It's not heretical, Terry!" "Yes it is, John, it's attacking the church." "No, it's not...") which makes the other Pythons start laughing at they realize what they're doing. We also hear a few interesting stories about Michael Palin hiding in Carol Cleveland's closet and John Cleese hiding behind Michael Palin's bureau. By far the funniest moment is when Terry Gilliam "accidently" knocks over... oh, you'll have to see.
20 Years of Python is good, but if you've already seen most of Python, this is really sort of useless. Very good introduction for people who have not seen Python. This is the first apperance Graham Chapman makes with the Pythons in a closet, and the last apperance he ever made with the Pythons in a closet, as he died a few months later.
The German episode is nice, but I am a little bit heistant because it's in German. Still funny, but would be funnier if in English. The delivery is what makes the lines even more hilarious, but the Pythons loose this because of the different language. It's still very funny, and you do get to see sketches that you probably never have before.
There's really only one word to sum up Python- and that's hilarious. Or maybe it should be zany. Well, for now, I'll just say I love it.
Summary of The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16 Ton Megaset
This unassuming case is packed with 16 tons of funny: 14 discs of MONTY PYTHON?S FLYING CIRCUS, packed with every episode from the programme?s four year run, plus 2 MONTY PYTHON LIVE! discs featuring--well, you figure it out. While to the uninitiated they may look like ordinary .65 oz. digital video discs, due to the unique physics of comedy (it?s like quantum but with fewer dead cats), each disc actually weighs a full metaphoric ton! Please remember to lift with your knees. This 16-Ton Megaset contains every single episode of MONTY PYTHONG?S FLYING CIRCUS--four years of blood, sweat and blancmange--jammed into slivers of plastic the size of a tea plate and MONTY PYTHON LIVE!--Legendary live performances, the 20-year celebration of Monty Python Parrot Sketch Not Included, and the all-German Monty Python?s Fligender Zirkus episode #1 squashed like pancakes. Sad, really. Jump right to your favorite sketches in The Flying Circus with this index! Disc 1: The Funniest Joke in the World, The Wrestling Episode, and Nudge Nudge, Disc 2: Art Critic, Silly Job Interview, and Crunchy Frog, Disc 3: Dead Parrot, Lumberjack Song, and Vocational Guidance Counselor, Disc 4: Undertaker?s Film, Upperclass Twit of the Year, and Albatross, Disc 5: The Ministry of Silly Walks, The Spanish Inquisition, and Complaints, Disc 6: The Bishop, Blackmail, and Dung, Disc 7: Attila the Nun, Silly Vicar, and Exploding Penquin on the TV Set, Disc 8: Scott of the Antarctic, Dirty Hungarian Phrase-book, and Exploding Blue Danube, Disc 9: Icelandic Saga, Fish-Slapping Dance, and Argument Clinic, Disc 10: ?Blood, Devastation, War, and Horror?, Mount Everest - Hairdresser Expedition, and Gumby Brain Specialists, Disc 11: Cheese Shop, A Naked Man, and The Olympic Hide and Seek Final, Disc 12: Elizabethan Pornography Smugglers, Kamikaze Scotsman, and Penguins, Disc 13: Montgolfier Brothers, Department Store, and RAF Banter, Disc 14: Hamlet and Ophelia, Mr. Neutron, and Most Awful Family in Britain, Disc 15: Live at the Hollywood Bowl, Monty Python Live at Aspen, Disc 16: Parrot Sketch Not Included, Monty Python?s Fliegender Zirkus: German Episode #1Similar DVD Movies
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