So, now that I've finally seen this movie, I'm fully convinced this is one of the GREATEST comedies of all time! I mean, seriously, it features so many DIFFERENT styles of comedy all wrapped up into one film! It has slapstick, sexual innuendos (which are always fun) turns of phrase/puns, breaking the fourth wall, absurdity, political nonsensical humor, religious blasphemy, utter contempt for the audience (the non-ending, which I figured out was a literal COP OUT hahahahahahahaha), and most importantly, beating the sh*t out of cats... lol I love you guys!
"Oh, wicked, bad, naughty Zoot! She has been setting a light to our beacon, which, I've just remembered, is Plot shaped. It's not the first time we've had this problem."
The ending is a literal “cop-out”. Also the gag about the coconuts was because they couldn’t afford horses in the budget. Thus you know the knight that killed the historian was not one of Arther’s because he killed while riding a horse. 🤣
@@AndyPickle-fd5qr I've seen this movie so many times and never noticed that everyone but Arthur are wearing fucking shirts that just look like chainmail. Holy hell.
As someone who studied Arthurian legend and literature in my undergrad years, I'm pleased to report that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is both an extremely outrageous comedy as well as the most accurate depiction of Arthurian legend to be adapted to film to this day.
BEST INSULT EVER!!! In high school, I insulted the bullies with it and it was so funny watching them trying to figure it out! We also used "Mutinous disloyal computerized half-breed" from Star Wars alot, too! Being a nerd in the 1980's had it's fun! **EDIT: So tired and just watched a Star Wars reaction. I have Trekkie in the name...
This movie gets referenced SO many times. A sublte one was in Game Of Thrones. There's a scene where Daenerys Targaryan and her Dothraki warriors are at the gate of a city, and the city sends out it's champion to fight one-on-one with their best man, winner gets the city. While they're debating who's going to fight him, the city champion is shouting insults at them in Old Valerian, a speakable language invented for the show by a language expert. The thing is, the insults he's shouting are all the Frenchmens' ones from Holy Grail, translated into Old Valerian, so unless you're one of the really REALLY die-hard fans who actually learned the language, it goes right over your head. Not sure how a language from a medieval world had a word for an "electric donkey's bottom biter", but I'm sure the language guy had fun making one up...
And old school gamers remember Fallout two was filled with references. DO NOT attack the bridge keeper of doom he is almost indestructible and has kamikaze brahmin. The knights in power armour being followed around by peasants with backpacks banging coconut's are hilarious.
Holy crap I would have never known that thankfully for GOT it was very subtle and not jarring. Pop culture references in GOT should at least be subtle.
So, in order: 1- They used coconuts because they didn't have the budget for horses. 2- Yes, corpse carts were a thing when the bubonic plague was ravaging Europe. A third of everyone living there died. 3- Some sects of monks believed in self-flagellation as a means of penance and getting closer to Jesus' suffering on the cross. 4- Throughout their whole existence, the Pythons have made extensive use of animation between scenes and to highlight the comedy. 5- Having cast members telling other cast members to 'get on with it' is also a running theme. A lot of sketches would become massively sidetracked and one of the characters would come in and try to get things back on track. 6- The monk with the top of his head shaved is called tonsured. It was what they did at the time to identify them as monks and not priests. 7- The Castle of Aaaagh is definitely not the same castle they met the French at before. It's much smaller and surrounded by water. 8- Yes, that's how the movie really ends. They ran out of money, and they had sacked all the people who made credits so there couldn't be any credits at the end.
For 7 do you mean in-universe its not the same castle? because I heard that it was one castle that they just shot from different angles to make it seem like they were different.
@@brendanmystery Most of the castles are different views of Castle Doune. The final scene was at Castle Stalker, which is on an island in Loch Laich in Scotland.
"I feel like I have to be properly inebriated to watch this movie" - How ironic, they Monty Python gang were all *PROPERLY* drunk writing it. Also, the ending being a literal cop out is hillarious.
OMG IT'S A COP OUT! Never clicked, dunno if that was intentional on their part but brilliant regardless. Every time I watch this film I discover something new 😂
@@EricaGamet They have stated in interviews that the conception of this very movie stems from after pitching the idea they all each went home to theirs, got drunk and wrote a manuscript and the final movie is bits and pieces of their collective ideas.
Alex: “Thousand bucks the horses look stupid as shit.” All of us, laughing: “There ARE no horses!!” Alex, laughing: “There ARE no horses!” And that’s when we all knew he was one of us.
And to think that King Authur was framed for the murder of the famous historian... since none of the knights have horses. When a friend pointed that out to me, I was speechless for quite a while.
Hahahaha yes it took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize that the person had an actual horse 😂 I had grown so used to the coconut horses I didn’t even notice lmao
I don't think Arthur was framed for the murder. Despite being on a horse, the shout was clearly Lancelot's voice. HE was arrested for the murder, while Arthur and Bedivere were busted as Accessories to the crime.
My favorite bit of trivia is that "Tim"'s name was supposed to be something crazier, but John Cleese forgot it, said "Tim?" And they just rolled with it 😂
Cleese is on record saying it was always supposed to be Tim. The first draft of the film script is written "some who call me Tim". I will say the ling pause was a brilliant addition though.
The name Tim was in the original script, but the spitting definitely wasn't. You can see the other Pythons recoiling from laughter when the spit flies 😂
The movie is basically one long setup for a "troll" with that ending. Monty Python, trolling audiences before trolling was a thing... ^_^ Love this movie...
I saw a professor of Middle Ages history on RUclips actually gave this movie high marks for accuracy (despite the obvious silly stuff). By the way, the bald spot on the monk is called "tonsure", and was a reminder to them that they were servants of God, as slaves in ancient times often had their heads shaved.
I will DIE if you wore that Pink Floyd shirt out of mere coincidence 🤣 I'm not sure if you knew this, but at the time of production, Monty Python was struggling with funds, so Pink Floyd ACTUALLY helped pay to make the movie, because they loved Monty Python so much!🥰
George Harrison funded the Life of Brian. The big movie studios dropped the ball on Monty Python. They didn't understand the humour and therefore got nothing out of it. Somehow, British musicians did understand the importance and humour of the films. Let it never be said that Hollywood has a really good sense of humour. I think the question that most Hollywood producers ask, when presented with a concept script is "Can we eat it, fuck it or bank it?"
The monks hitting themselves in the head with planks is actually historically accurate! During the plague, the church believed it was God punishing us for our sins, so monks would walk through villages hurting themselves to spare the townspeople from getting sick.
During the time of the plague there were so many dead that they wold have carts pulled by either boys or horses, ringing bells as they went along, to collect corpses from family homes. There were so many dead that it became impossible to hold individual wakes or burials. Pretty gruesome. There are quite a few pretty accurate (though satirical) historical metions in the film. Same with "Life of Brian". They are great movies. I am happy you reacted to it (and I'm not even brittish!) XD
I mean, his name is literally Tim. He kinda has to do it. Also, 😂😂😂😂 That definitely would have taken me out if I ran into that kinda nametag at a Walmart. 🤣🤣
My family communicates almost exclusively in Mel Brooks quotes and quotes from this movie. It’s literally one of the funniest movies ever made. I actually yelled “Help! Help! I’m being oppressed!!!” the other day. I’m a grown ass woman and my husband looked like he wanted to die from embarrassment. He should know better by now
*'Monty Python and the Holy Grail* The 1975 film was financed by several bands and record companies, including: *Led Zeppelin:* Contributed £31,500 *Pink Floyd:* Contributed £21,000 *Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson:* Contributed £6,300 *Charisma Records:* A record company that released some of Python's early comedy albums *Heartaches:* A cricket team founded by lyricist *Tim Rice* *Michael White:* The film's co-producer'*
@@danielcobbins8861 I don't know about Grail, but he basically funded Life of Brian after the company that was going to make it backed out at the last minute (supposedly because they finally read the script). He mortgaged his mansion and his business manager mortgaged his offices to found HandMade Films, basically just because he wanted to see Monty Python's next movie.
To make sense of the tone of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it helps to understand that Monty Python's Flying Circus was a surrealist sketch comedy show from the late 60s/early 70s which featured multiple sketches each episode, and the sketches were loosely connected with some sort of running joke or very loose through-line. There were also interstitial bits featuring animation in the style you see in the movie, all done by Terry Gilliam (who is now a well-known and very respected visionary director known for such movies as Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, Fisher King, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Time Bandits, etc). This movie is basically a feature-length version of an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, with the exception that the sketches are more focused on one subject and tied together with the loose through-line of Arthur and his quest for the grail. But, with the show in mind, you can see that the movie is basically still just a series of sketches portraying silly scenes set in medieval times. Speaking of being "silly," I would definitely say this movie is silly, but it isn't stupid. So many of the jokes are based on things from history, full of social and political commentary, etc. I know there are people who think it's all just random nonsense that doesn't mean anything, but those are the people who don't actually know anything about history and don't recognize the references that are being made. When the French people in the movie launch animals over the walls, e.g., this is a reference to stories from historical battles where a castle was being sieged and they'd launch dead animal carcasses over the walls so they'd rot, spread disease, and dishearten their opponents. Monty Python just took this idea and made it silly. When the monks hit themselves in the faces as they chant, this is reference to practices of self-flagellation, where religious orders believed that you had to hurt yourself to atone for sins and/or to feel closer to the suffering of Jesus on the cross. The whole "Bring out your dead!" section is basically a sketch set during the the Black Plague, finding comedy in the unbelievably oppressive body count of one of the most horrible pandemics in history, portraying death as so commonplace that it's basically like putting your garbage out on the curb for the garbage truck to pick up once a week. They're smart premises taken to silly extremes. Contrast this with something like, say, Saturday Night Live, where the "joke" is something along the lines of a couple trying to buy something at a store and the clerk has a silly haircut and talks really loudly. THAT'S stupid.
100% This! Monty Python is silly, but in no way stupid. Even in the Flying Circus, so many of their jokes are multi-layered and insanely smart commentary on different facets of life. It's why they hold up so well even today!
One of my favorite running gags from this movie is the poor historian getting murdered by a knight on the ONE ACTUAL HORSE in the movie. Then cut back to the wife finding the historian dead, then the police setting up the crime scene, the investigator and the police hearing the holy hand grenade, and then the whole police force arresting them at the end
"Why?" almost every question is answered with "they ran out of the little money they had for it" and I LOVE it. The end was because of it, the "horses" because of it, etc. Absolute classic.
I don't remember much of my first time watching the movie. But I remember seeing the word "knights" and pronouncing it just like in the movie. I was about 5 and didn't understand a word they said. But I loved it!
"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?" is one of my top favorite lines in a comedy along with "Was that 0600 in the morning?" and "Where the white women at?"
Fun fact: Monty Python is the reason for the word Spam being used as annoying messages. They had a skit of someone trying to order food and the server kept insisting on Spam.
27:10 "I hope the rabbit murders this guy" I laughed out loud. I can't believe my mom let me and my friends watch this movie (a hundred times) while we were in elementary school 😂😂😂
That's how you know you had good parents. Monty Python makes people better human beings, I thoroughly believe that in 30+ years of quoting Python to strangers and making friends from it.
Back in high school we did a production of "Spamalot," the broadway musical based on this movie. I got to pay Sir Robin and sing a number about not being able to succeed on broadway without Jews. Funnily enough, my girlfriend at the time was Jewish, and her parents liked it so much they asked me to perform it at her sister's Bat Mitzvah! Life is funny that way.
And yet Terry Giliam’s daughter found a way to squander their collective IP loot. The other alive 3 are not happy still having to work. The Pythons did not learn from the Queensryche debacle. Never hire the children of one member to control the finances.
11:54 when your plan to prank your friend backfires because they've already preemptively one-upped you with the same style of outlandish humor - this is when you know you're in good company cut from the same cloth
25:10 Alex may be a bit cuckoo sometimes with his humor but instead of Monty Python, I would submit that a movie/character that embodies Alex's personality maybe Ryan Gosling's character in The Nice Guys. Vastly underrated comedy that would make for a great reaction video if Alex hasn't already done it ;)
I love that the level of chaotic humor in that call and how he answered was the perfect fit for the movie that he was watching xD. Imagine 'I fart in your general direction' being the most normal part of the call! I'd love to know what the next back-and-forth was :)
The man slapping the water with a stick is making the sounds of the "horses" riding through the stream. There are tons of little details like this in the movie.
8:00 "That was the weirdest scene I've ever seen in my life." The weirdest scene you've seen in your life SO FAR XD Not even 10 minutes into Monty Python's wild ride!
One thing (IMO) that always gets overlooked about this film is how talented the actors of Monty Python actually are. A small group of men play a large majority of the characters and most people don’t realize on their first watch. Some of them play two or three different characters, but because of their acting/comedy genius, no one notices.
Imagine, if you will, living in the 70's, and seeing Monty Python as a series, in half hour shows. Now, imagine that you're a child watching John Cleese playing a man that's training other men in how to defend yourself if you're being attacked by a man with a banana. Then skip along a little, and find the same John Cleese playing a man that's afflicted with a silly walk. Basically, what I'm telling you is to seek out and watch Monty Python. Because you went from 'this is a stupid movie' to 'the greatest comedy of all time'. If you do, you'll know what I'm talking about.
So a fun fact about the Black Knight, he's played by two different actors. One of the Pythons (John Cleese) and an actual one legged man (a local apparently), b/c Cleese couldn't hop around on one leg. "Sir Not Appearing In This Film" was the son of one of the actors(Michael Palin). 'It's only a model' It was, in fact, a model. Iirc they wanted to use actual castles, as it was filmed in Scotland, but no one would let them use them (since all the castles are privately owned). All the castles seen in the film are either Doune Castle, just filmed at various angles, or miniatures. Also, on the DVDs there's a subtitle track you can turn on that's called "Subtitles For People Who Don’t Like The Film" which is just lines from Shakespeare's 'Henry IV Part 2', cherry picked from the play to best resemble what the actors are saying on screen.
@@davidwebb4451Who’s to say he *wasn’t* invincible in much the same way as Deadpool? Granted that’s more along the lines of “immortal”, but still. As wholly unsurprised and unfazed as the legendary Sir Percival (proper name of this famous black knight, as I understand, though the movie never uses it) was by his grievous wounds, it makes one wonder-is he really *that* much of an idiot, or is he unbothered because he *has* had worse? I realize this may or may not be rather absurd, but it does make a weird amount of sense. (And as far as theories go, I’d argue that this is no more ridiculous than a lot of crackpot movie theories I’ve seen in RUclips comments. People really like to go through some wild mental gymnastics to find something either dark as hell or warm and fuzzy to fixate on.)
"I'd bet the horses are outlandish as shit" Monty Python troupe: "Hold my beer...and coconut!" As funny as it is, the actual castle used in the movie, you can get a coconut from the gift store and reenact the scenes from this movie!
Another fun fact: the cave where the killer rabbit lives is another place that Python fans regularly go to, where they leave stuffed rabbits, coconut husks and empty Chambord bottles. It's Tomnadashan mine on the banks of Loch Tay
Since I’m Gen X, I first encountered this movie on VHS. At that time, the Castle Anthrax scene from just before “Do you think this scene should have been cut?” to the final “GET ON WITH IT” was absent from the movie (it was added back in the early 2000’s and in all subsequent DVD releases). Obviously the answer to “Do you think this scene should have been cut” had been “yes.” One result was that we didn’t get to see the assembled army ahead of time.
So in Spamalot, the Broadway version of this film written by one of the og members of Monty Python, Lancelot and Herbert (the son who always wants to sing) actually end up together. And yes, he finally gets a song 😂 It’s genuinely one of my favorite musicals of all time. Just like this movie is one of my all time favorites.
Monty Python is slapstick humor on the surface only. There are layers of satiric depth underneath that draws from mythology, history, and in this case specifically Arthurian legend as well. The more you know, the deeper the satire cuts at humanity.
I used to have the book version of the script. You could see a lot of changes made between the script and the final version. One of them was that the rabbit originally killed five men, but they changed it to three. Rather than just have King Arthur say "We lost three men", they kept the original line "We lost five men", then had someone else correct him. Then they went through the rest of the script and everywhere the word "three" appeared, they crossed it out and wrote in "five".
Well, this movie was made with the little money the Pythons made from their series "Monty Python's Flying Circus". It was very close to the concept of that show, with random often entirely absurdist scenes stitched together by even more random animations. It was just the era for that style of absurdism. And they were the ambassadors of that style. Their later movies had a much bigger budget (comparatively speaking). Not that it meant they were swimming in money. George Harrison from the Beatles funded a total of £3 million at the time. Quite a lot for that time, mind you.
If it's any consolation to your ego, this film is not just random, stupid, and hilarious: it's actually very, very smart. So smart, in fact, that college professors show scenes from it to illustrate the medieval culture, practices, and superstitions that the film is taking the piss out of. Some of the most random elements of the film (e.g. the rabbit, the cats, the illustrations, the hedge knight, the monks smacking their heads with planks, etc) are actually grounded in very real history, adding yet another layer of hilarity to the film. So yes, it's definitely a compliment for your personality to be compared to this. 😜
Nice idea, but it’s not true. Movies at that time often had opening credits (which they were required to have by the Directors’ Guild) and no end credits. Closing credits didn’t start to become a thing until around the time that this movie came out, and the current practice of limited or no opening credits and extensive end credits didn’t become the norm until a decade or so later.
@@markhamstra1083 I must fart in your general direction as I just fact checked your rebuttal. I found that Jaws, One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Rocky Horror Picture Show (picked multiple movies to check my sources... )All 1975 like this movies and all with sound and end credits?!? So I'll have to disagree and continue laughing at the hilarity that is about 10 min of music with a blank screen and zero text on screen due to the earlier sacking of the font specialist 😂. G'day
@@DaMunkey1 🙄 I didn’t say that no movies in 1975 had end credits. It’s just that minimal or no end credits was not yet unusual in 1975. The real reason for the lack of any end credits is that the film broke when the cop shoved his hand into the camera after the arrests.
@@markhamstra1083 I guess we agree to disagree. Having no credits due to the sacking is a hilarious call back in the earlier portion of the movie, fitting of the Monty Python style and wit of the film, while a blank screen with music playing over it for an overly extensive amount of time for the only reason that "the camera broke" seems very 'meh' by their standards. I will carry on in believing it is the prior and continue to laugh every time I see it. Cheers
@@DaMunkey1 Sure, you’re free to cling to your incorrect, anachronistic belief. The end music is meant to be “house music” that the theater management plays while they are experiencing technical difficulty with the broken film or while the audience exits at the end of the film, not part of the film itself.
The black knight is like when you're playing swordfights as a kid and that one kid just refuses to lose when you hit them down to the point where theyre hopping on one leg
One of my favourite memories is having this movie on DVD release (2 disc set) Main menu - “special features” - select that option and get audio track “For special features, insert disc two” (Off camera sound effects) -“oh/hmm, zipp…squish/splish” …”NO!…into your DVD player!” “Oh…splish…zipp”
1:33 "I don't think I should be having this much fun reading the subtitles." No, you absolutely should XD. (Also highly recommend listening to the Spamalot soundtrack. Basically this movie but a Broadway musical)
George Harrison of The Beatles helped produce this movie. Also, director, animator and Coconut Man, Terry Gilliam is one of the most famous movie directors in Hollywood. He directed the Monty Python movies, The Fisher King, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Time Bandits, Fear & Loathing In Los Vegas, The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen...
Per Twitter: "Some believe the Enchanter's name is Tim because John Cleese forgot the character's original name, and ad-libbed the line, "There are some who call me...Tim". However, Cleese disputes this. During a 2018 live tour, he said there was no improvisation in the final movie." Not sure who to trust, Twitter or fanfacts
And the particular animations in this movie were based upon graffiti which bored medieval monks put in the margins of the books they were copying out by hand. The killer rabbit also is inspired by that graffiti since such rabbits appeared quite often for some reason.
@@SC-gp7kt Do a search for Monty Python Holy Grail message for you sir mp3. Many of the results will be for apps of ringtones. But, some will let you download the mp3
Actually, 'k-nig-its' is historically accurate. It's the way the Anglo-Saxons would have pronounced it. Several of the writers took medieval history in uni. Another one is when the Frenchman claims that "he's already got one." The first grail story is general accepted as Perceval ou le Conte du Graal, by Chretien de Troyes written in Old French.
You ask what was the budget for this movie. They did indeed run out of money, but then they approached a saviour who provided them with the amount needed to complete the film. Who? you ask? George Harrison. Provided with a script, he read it, and told the Pythons to go ahead. Thank you from the depths of my heart George.
The animation style of Terry Gilliam inspired South Park's animation. Matt Stone and Trey Parker even made a short, recreating a famous Python sketch involving Cartman, Kenny and Kyle. The sketch was The Dead Parrot Sketch. A customer complaining that a parrot he just bought was dead, but the shopkeeper keeps telling him that the bird is simply just resting.
And Terry Gilliam, the animator and only American in Python, was the man behind Arthur banging the coconuts. He is also the director of Time Bandits, Baron Munchausen, Brazil, and other movies.
Lancelot's story is my favourite. From the first arrow (message for you sir!), to the running, to murdering all the wedding guests, the princess (prince), the guards. It's perfect
As a public service I go around telling people this when they react to this film (if they are Americans, anyway). When I was in the UK and we were watching this film on a movie night at dorms in Edinburgh University, all of the British kids were laughing their asses off at the whole "knights who say Ni' shrubbery thing, and I was like, "what is so damn funny? It's just another one of their nonsensical bits of humor that don't make sense?!" So I asked them... and they explained it to me. It's a joke that both does not cross the Pond well and does not cross generations well because of slang, but in short it fits in with the entire vibe of the movie being about sex jokes and stuff, because it is basically that these guys have been out in the woods by themselves for a long time, and they miss... female companionship. So they send them into the nearest town to get a "shrub". But. A "shrub" is a bush... and a "bush"... is a prostitute. Which is why the old lady is so scandalized when they ask if there are any shrubberies in town. And then the guy they meet who is Roger the shrubber: To Roger means to f**k somebody, and if he's a "shrubber", that means he's a person who collects and sells shrubberies (AKA prostitutes)... so he's "F**ker the Pimp". So basically they've been out in the woods for a long time and they want them to bring them a prostitute... and then instead they actually bring a literal shrub, and they're like "ok, that's nice and beautiful and everything, but we want you to get what we're saying and actually bring us a willing GIRL". That's what's supposed to be amusing about it. The people who are playing Arthur and Knights of the Round Table are completely baffled by the references because they're so 'pure', even though they're surrounded by the subject.
This quote was the most prevalent at my house growing up. My dad used it all the time, often adding, "I thought of it!" I didn't realize what it was from until I finally got to watch the movie.
There is a Monty Python version of the Fluxx card game -- the ever-changing rule game. From the manufacturer: If Fluxx wasn't confusing and strange enough, now the Pythons have gotten involved with the proceedings and made it even more hysterical. Monty Python Fluxx now includes singing, fake accents, reciting Python dialog for extra cards, and pretty much everything else, short of farting in your general direction. (It is, after all, a game for the whole family.) Loosely based on concepts from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, there are guest appearances from King Arthur and all of his Knights, coconuts, a shrubbery, an unladen swallow, a trojan rabbit, a catapult, an airborne cow, the Holy Hand Grenade, and the Finger of God, as well as such Python classics as the giant foot, the nude organist, a resting parrot, and the Spanish Inquisition - which, of course everyone was expecting.
Alex, I dare you to have someone follow you around one day clacking two halves of coconuts together while you skip along pretending to be riding a horse, and a third person films it as it takes place.
@@shinobiqueenv6583 are you short? Cause I felt the joke was pretty low hanging for it to go over your head. He was making fun of Alex, ie why he (Alex) was on the back foot after the call 😂
@@thechonus3858I thought that until Alex said ‘we say the most outlandish shit to each other.’ What I heard was, ‘we say the most racist shit to each other..’
If you don't have friends that you can't trust on speaker then you must have no fun at all. I remember being on the phone to my mate while I worked at a small phone repair shop and it was just me in at the time and then a customer came in and I didn't end the call just took him off speaker and said "I'll be back in a min" and while I'm chatting to the customer all you can hear is my mate screaming "Help!!!" At the top off his lungs the twat. Luckily the customer had a sense of humour 🤣🤣
So, now that I've finally seen this movie, I'm fully convinced this is one of the GREATEST comedies of all time!
I mean, seriously, it features so many DIFFERENT styles of comedy all wrapped up into one film!
It has slapstick, sexual innuendos (which are always fun) turns of phrase/puns, breaking the fourth wall, absurdity, political nonsensical humor, religious blasphemy, utter contempt for the audience (the non-ending, which I figured out was a literal COP OUT hahahahahahahaha), and most importantly, beating the sh*t out of cats... lol
I love you guys!
PLEASE REACT TO "INSIDE OUT 2"!!! 😭💔
You gotta try Monty Python's The Life of Brian next!!!
What happened yesterday I was in the middle of watching when it got taken down 😢
And now to spam the comment section with the next assignment - The Life of Brian!
@@chrishanson6566 I guessing youtube or some sort of copyright claim forced him to take it down lol
HOW HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN THIS? Shame! Shame! Shame!
SHAME SHAME SHAME!!!
Holy worlds collide. I just watched your foo fighters video and now I'm onto Alex
WOAH worlds collide.
I love that you’ve commented on another of my faves videos! Love you girl
Its okay Elizabeth, I ask the same thing for almost every reaction he uploads😂❤️
YOU: "The plot thickens!"
THOSE OF US WHO HAVE BEEN FAMILIAR WITH THIS MOVIE FOR DECADES: "There's a PLOT???"
"Oh, wicked, bad, naughty Zoot! She has been setting a light to our beacon, which, I've just remembered, is Plot shaped. It's not the first time we've had this problem."
the plot is either "ni!" or "Aaargh"
@@lionhead123No, no, it’s pronounced “Aaauuugggghhhh…”
@@Gojirawars03😂👍👍
After Norway banned "Monty Python's Life of Brian" for blasphemy, it was marketed in Sweden as “so funny it was banned in Norway.” (1980)
Savage 😂😂😂
Whhaaaaaaaat? Really? Thats fkn genius 😂😂😂😂
oh my... Is this actually true? Please let it be true.
It was banned in Sweden!! "Life of Brian" was.
@@trekkiexb5 incredible 😆🤣
“A thousand bucks says the horses look like shit”
Almost spit my drink out
that moment was almost funnier than the actual joke
Budget £282,035
Box office £2,358,229 (1975 run)
$5,507,090 (rereleases)
The ending is a literal “cop-out”. Also the gag about the coconuts was because they couldn’t afford horses in the budget. Thus you know the knight that killed the historian was not one of Arther’s because he killed while riding a horse. 🤣
Also, Arthur was the only one wearing actual mail. The rest wore knit mail looking shirts.
And don't even mention Camelot
That and boomers childhood radio dramas and cowboy films used that same technique for horses
@@AndyPickle-fd5qr I've seen this movie so many times and never noticed that everyone but Arthur are wearing fucking shirts that just look like chainmail. Holy hell.
@@엘제-k9u "It's only a model" 😆
As someone who studied Arthurian legend and literature in my undergrad years, I'm pleased to report that Monty Python and the Holy Grail is both an extremely outrageous comedy as well as the most accurate depiction of Arthurian legend to be adapted to film to this day.
The French series Kaamelott is very accurate as well if you don't know about it!
Did the same. The Lancelot scenes are so on point.
That's not false.
@@Psykotik_ Yeah, that’s not wrong…
@@Psykotik_ C'est pas faux.
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries"
This is saying your mother was promiscuous and your father was a drunk.
I swear I've seen this film a hundred times and never connected those dots. Thanks?
I started more than a few fights by saying that to people.....
BEST INSULT EVER!!! In high school, I insulted the bullies with it and it was so funny watching them trying to figure it out! We also used "Mutinous disloyal computerized half-breed" from Star Wars alot, too! Being a nerd in the 1980's had it's fun!
**EDIT: So tired and just watched a Star Wars reaction. I have Trekkie in the name...
@@trekkiexb5 "Mutinous disloyal computerized half-breed" surely means dildo then, by the above logic?
@@trekkiexb5Star Trek*
When that arrow hits that dude and he says "Message for you, sir" - I use that as my Amazon notification.
That is incredible! 😂
I must use that immediately
For the longest time that was my text message notification and just about reflexively checked my phone.
Oh man I used to have that as as my text notification. Now I use the intermission music as my ringtone lol
used it for years as my notification message.
This movie gets referenced SO many times. A sublte one was in Game Of Thrones. There's a scene where Daenerys Targaryan and her Dothraki warriors are at the gate of a city, and the city sends out it's champion to fight one-on-one with their best man, winner gets the city. While they're debating who's going to fight him, the city champion is shouting insults at them in Old Valerian, a speakable language invented for the show by a language expert. The thing is, the insults he's shouting are all the Frenchmens' ones from Holy Grail, translated into Old Valerian, so unless you're one of the really REALLY die-hard fans who actually learned the language, it goes right over your head. Not sure how a language from a medieval world had a word for an "electric donkey's bottom biter", but I'm sure the language guy had fun making one up...
And old school gamers remember Fallout two was filled with references. DO NOT attack the bridge keeper of doom he is almost indestructible and has kamikaze brahmin. The knights in power armour being followed around by peasants with backpacks banging coconut's are hilarious.
This is incredible. I've read asoiaf five times and watched the show and never knew this, thank you!
Holy crap I would have never known that thankfully for GOT it was very subtle and not jarring. Pop culture references in GOT should at least be subtle.
It is, in fact, the *Holy Grail* of comedy movies
HEYOOOOOOOO
Title drop
You are in fact, old.
@@Joeysaladslover You are, in fact, uncultured
@@cic1470 I’m so glad I have a clone wars fan here to tell me whats cultured and what’s not, thank the lord.
Alex, by beginning the movie reading the subtitles in a dorky Nordic accent, proved he is exactly on the correct wavelength for this film.
So, in order:
1- They used coconuts because they didn't have the budget for horses.
2- Yes, corpse carts were a thing when the bubonic plague was ravaging Europe. A third of everyone living there died.
3- Some sects of monks believed in self-flagellation as a means of penance and getting closer to Jesus' suffering on the cross.
4- Throughout their whole existence, the Pythons have made extensive use of animation between scenes and to highlight the comedy.
5- Having cast members telling other cast members to 'get on with it' is also a running theme. A lot of sketches would become massively sidetracked and one of the characters would come in and try to get things back on track.
6- The monk with the top of his head shaved is called tonsured. It was what they did at the time to identify them as monks and not priests.
7- The Castle of Aaaagh is definitely not the same castle they met the French at before. It's much smaller and surrounded by water.
8- Yes, that's how the movie really ends. They ran out of money, and they had sacked all the people who made credits so there couldn't be any credits at the end.
For 7 do you mean in-universe its not the same castle? because I heard that it was one castle that they just shot from different angles to make it seem like they were different.
@@brendanmystery Most of the castles are different views of Castle Doune. The final scene was at Castle Stalker, which is on an island in Loch Laich in Scotland.
@@Matuse oh okay good to know
Don't forget that their pronunciation of "knight" is Old English. Lots of Palin having fun with his history background.
Huh, I thought the ending was just a cop out 😏
the best part of this reaction is Alex not knowing what to do with a movie that makes the weird jokes before he can
"I feel like I have to be properly inebriated to watch this movie" - How ironic, they Monty Python gang were all *PROPERLY* drunk writing it.
Also, the ending being a literal cop out is hillarious.
OMG IT'S A COP OUT! Never clicked, dunno if that was intentional on their part but brilliant regardless. Every time I watch this film I discover something new 😂
Michael most definitely was not drunk. Graham, most definitely so.
@@EricaGamet They have stated in interviews that the conception of this very movie stems from after pitching the idea they all each went home to theirs, got drunk and wrote a manuscript and the final movie is bits and pieces of their collective ideas.
Monty Python has been trolling people since 1969.
69 Gigiddy.
nice
Long may it continue!
Brilliant description
“Something gonna pop up, right?!”
I laughed so hard
Alex: “Thousand bucks the horses look stupid as shit.”
All of us, laughing: “There ARE no horses!!”
Alex, laughing: “There ARE no horses!”
And that’s when we all knew he was one of us.
27:10
Alex:"I hope the Rabbit murders this guy....oh!"
Exactly what happened!
There was 1 horse in 1 scene, ridden by its owner.
One loves Monty Python or they are banished. It’s simple.
... so, wait, does Alex win the bet or lose the bet?
My husband got me a t-shirt that said "Huge...tracts of land" written on it. I wore that shirt proudly!
😂😂😂😂😂
Your a witch!!!!!!! LOL. Because you float. Sorry. Couldn't resist.
Are they real, and spectacular? 😅
@@MycontentisgoldJerryGold Large, yes and unfortunally real.
I have a hoodie with the Knights Who Say Ni on it.
In German this movie is called "Knights of the coconut". Which makes perfect sense just after watching the entrance scene 😄
What makes the Black Knight fight so much funnier is that they could have just walked around him since he is only guarding a small bridge.
It's just a flesh wound!
And to think that King Authur was framed for the murder of the famous historian... since none of the knights have horses. When a friend pointed that out to me, I was speechless for quite a while.
Hahahaha yes it took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize that the person had an actual horse 😂 I had grown so used to the coconut horses I didn’t even notice lmao
Seen this so many times but never noticed 🤯🤯
I was today years old...
I don't think Arthur was framed for the murder. Despite being on a horse, the shout was clearly Lancelot's voice. HE was arrested for the murder, while Arthur and Bedivere were busted as Accessories to the crime.
as the murder takes place in the modern realm, they could have found a horse lol
"I FFFFFHART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION!" has been a standard insult in my family for almost 40 years now.
My favorite bit of trivia is that "Tim"'s name was supposed to be something crazier, but John Cleese forgot it, said "Tim?" And they just rolled with it 😂
Cleese is on record saying it was always supposed to be Tim. The first draft of the film script is written "some who call me Tim". I will say the ling pause was a brilliant addition though.
The name Tim was in the original script, but the spitting definitely wasn't. You can see the other Pythons recoiling from laughter when the spit flies 😂
The movie is basically one long setup for a "troll" with that ending.
Monty Python, trolling audiences before trolling was a thing... ^_^
Love this movie...
I saw a professor of Middle Ages history on RUclips actually gave this movie high marks for accuracy (despite the obvious silly stuff). By the way, the bald spot on the monk is called "tonsure", and was a reminder to them that they were servants of God, as slaves in ancient times often had their heads shaved.
The constant WHAT IS HAPPENING is the most appropriate response to any Monty Python creation.
Welcome to the chaos
I will DIE if you wore that Pink Floyd shirt out of mere coincidence 🤣 I'm not sure if you knew this, but at the time of production, Monty Python was struggling with funds, so Pink Floyd ACTUALLY helped pay to make the movie, because they loved Monty Python so much!🥰
I'm fairly certain it was Led Zeppelin that helped foot the bill.
Iirc, the guys from Led Zeppelin kicked in some pounds as well.
@@CrabJuice83they both did! Alex just isn't wearing a Zeppelin shirt😊
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192that they did!
George Harrison funded the Life of Brian. The big movie studios dropped the ball on Monty Python. They didn't understand the humour and therefore got nothing out of it. Somehow, British musicians did understand the importance and humour of the films. Let it never be said that Hollywood has a really good sense of humour. I think the question that most Hollywood producers ask, when presented with a concept script is "Can we eat it, fuck it or bank it?"
The monks hitting themselves in the head with planks is actually historically accurate! During the plague, the church believed it was God punishing us for our sins, so monks would walk through villages hurting themselves to spare the townspeople from getting sick.
Same with the scene with the bell and "Bring out your dead!" - pretty realistic.
@@BringDeathByPickles crazy, I didn't know that!
During the time of the plague there were so many dead that they wold have carts pulled by either boys or horses, ringing bells as they went along, to collect corpses from family homes. There were so many dead that it became impossible to hold individual wakes or burials.
Pretty gruesome.
There are quite a few pretty accurate (though satirical) historical metions in the film. Same with "Life of Brian". They are
great movies. I am happy you reacted to it (and I'm not even brittish!) XD
And if you ever watch the deadly serious "The Seventh Seal", you'll see this bit is a kind of a tribute to it.
They called themselves Self Flagellationists or Flagellants iirc.
When my little brother Tim worked at Walmart he had a namebadge that said "Some call me... Tim" just to see how many people recognized it.
I mean, his name is literally Tim. He kinda has to do it.
Also, 😂😂😂😂
That definitely would have taken me out if I ran into that kinda nametag at a Walmart. 🤣🤣
My family communicates almost exclusively in Mel Brooks quotes and quotes from this movie. It’s literally one of the funniest movies ever made. I actually yelled “Help! Help! I’m being oppressed!!!” the other day. I’m a grown ass woman and my husband looked like he wanted to die from embarrassment. He should know better by now
*'Monty Python and the Holy Grail*
The 1975 film was financed by several bands and record companies, including:
*Led Zeppelin:* Contributed £31,500
*Pink Floyd:* Contributed £21,000
*Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson:* Contributed £6,300
*Charisma Records:* A record company that released some of Python's early comedy albums
*Heartaches:* A cricket team founded by lyricist *Tim Rice*
*Michael White:* The film's co-producer'*
George Harrison contributed money, too, but I don't know how much.
@@danielcobbins8861 I don't know about Grail, but he basically funded Life of Brian after the company that was going to make it backed out at the last minute (supposedly because they finally read the script). He mortgaged his mansion and his business manager mortgaged his offices to found HandMade Films, basically just because he wanted to see Monty Python's next movie.
“One day lad all of this will be yours!”
“What the curtains?”
Favorite line of the movie
I. Want. To. SIIIIIIINNN
Huuuge tracts of land
Iconic 😂
Like dude it’s literally already y’all’s castle 😂
@@Slimchimrichalds ridiculously underrated. Perfect delivery
Life of Brian next ?
He had a wife you know...
And after that Fawlty Towers, and then Father Ted
Please don’t disrespect my good friend biggus dickus and his wife
@@Lui262s The level of disrespect being shown to Biggus Dickus is off the charts here
'Do you know what she's called? Incontinentia Buttocks'.
To make sense of the tone of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it helps to understand that Monty Python's Flying Circus was a surrealist sketch comedy show from the late 60s/early 70s which featured multiple sketches each episode, and the sketches were loosely connected with some sort of running joke or very loose through-line. There were also interstitial bits featuring animation in the style you see in the movie, all done by Terry Gilliam (who is now a well-known and very respected visionary director known for such movies as Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, Fisher King, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Time Bandits, etc). This movie is basically a feature-length version of an episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, with the exception that the sketches are more focused on one subject and tied together with the loose through-line of Arthur and his quest for the grail. But, with the show in mind, you can see that the movie is basically still just a series of sketches portraying silly scenes set in medieval times.
Speaking of being "silly," I would definitely say this movie is silly, but it isn't stupid. So many of the jokes are based on things from history, full of social and political commentary, etc. I know there are people who think it's all just random nonsense that doesn't mean anything, but those are the people who don't actually know anything about history and don't recognize the references that are being made. When the French people in the movie launch animals over the walls, e.g., this is a reference to stories from historical battles where a castle was being sieged and they'd launch dead animal carcasses over the walls so they'd rot, spread disease, and dishearten their opponents. Monty Python just took this idea and made it silly. When the monks hit themselves in the faces as they chant, this is reference to practices of self-flagellation, where religious orders believed that you had to hurt yourself to atone for sins and/or to feel closer to the suffering of Jesus on the cross. The whole "Bring out your dead!" section is basically a sketch set during the the Black Plague, finding comedy in the unbelievably oppressive body count of one of the most horrible pandemics in history, portraying death as so commonplace that it's basically like putting your garbage out on the curb for the garbage truck to pick up once a week. They're smart premises taken to silly extremes.
Contrast this with something like, say, Saturday Night Live, where the "joke" is something along the lines of a couple trying to buy something at a store and the clerk has a silly haircut and talks really loudly. THAT'S stupid.
100% This! Monty Python is silly, but in no way stupid. Even in the Flying Circus, so many of their jokes are multi-layered and insanely smart commentary on different facets of life. It's why they hold up so well even today!
One of my favorite running gags from this movie is the poor historian getting murdered by a knight on the ONE ACTUAL HORSE in the movie. Then cut back to the wife finding the historian dead, then the police setting up the crime scene, the investigator and the police hearing the holy hand grenade, and then the whole police force arresting them at the end
I don't think i've had a D&D session without SOMEONE referencing Monty Python and the Holy Grail
I had a sorcerer named Tim because of this movie, and IRL name.
It's a standard, nay, a requirement!
You're actually not playing D&D until someone references Holy Grail.
can there be a greater relic to quest for? between that and The Golden Fleece from Jason and the Argonauts, i say nay.
T'is tradition to say "it's just a flesh wound" when hit.
"Why?" almost every question is answered with "they ran out of the little money they had for it" and I LOVE it. The end was because of it, the "horses" because of it, etc. Absolute classic.
the german title of this movie is
"die Ritter der Kokusnuss"
KNIGHTS of the coconut
I don't remember much of my first time watching the movie. But I remember seeing the word "knights" and pronouncing it just like in the movie. I was about 5 and didn't understand a word they said. But I loved it!
"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?" is one of my top favorite lines in a comedy along with "Was that 0600 in the morning?" and "Where the white women at?"
Fun fact: Monty Python is the reason for the word Spam being used as annoying messages. They had a skit of someone trying to order food and the server kept insisting on Spam.
And the bloody vikings singing "Spamspamspamspam(wonderfulspam)spamspam...."
27:10 "I hope the rabbit murders this guy"
I laughed out loud. I can't believe my mom let me and my friends watch this movie (a hundred times) while we were in elementary school 😂😂😂
That's how you know you had good parents. Monty Python makes people better human beings, I thoroughly believe that in 30+ years of quoting Python to strangers and making friends from it.
You'd be amazed how many of the jokes in this film are based in actual historical fact.
Back in high school we did a production of "Spamalot," the broadway musical based on this movie. I got to pay Sir Robin and sing a number about not being able to succeed on broadway without Jews.
Funnily enough, my girlfriend at the time was Jewish, and her parents liked it so much they asked me to perform it at her sister's Bat Mitzvah! Life is funny that way.
A healthy sense of humor and recognizing something as just being funny makes life so much better!
@@Smokie_666 And to think our principal almost didn't let us do that number
I saw Spamalot in London and I think my favourite joke was in that song (hey!).
@@tomasjallen HAY! is still something my friends and I do whenever we see hay
What an amazing fanfiction
How is your editor gonna cut out one of the most iconic lines of the movie?! “Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?” 😂😂😂
His delivery of that was just perfect xD
There is no "why" when it comes to a Monty Python movie. The question is irrelevent. The answer is always "Because it's funny."
Budget £282,035
Box office £2,358,229 (1975 run)
$5,507,090 (rereleases)[
And yet Terry Giliam’s daughter found a way to squander their collective IP loot. The other alive 3 are not happy still having to work.
The Pythons did not learn from the Queensryche debacle.
Never hire the children of one member to control the finances.
Conversion in dollars please lol
I’m so glad it did so well lol, such a goddamn masterpiece
@@michaelshelton8802 You can do it in google. Just copy and paste the numbers in google and tell it to convert them. Super easy :)
@@michaelshelton8802it’s roughly the same amount in dollars tbh. Budget was $313,058.85 and box office was $2,617,634.19
For every £1, it’s $1.11
11:54 when your plan to prank your friend backfires because they've already preemptively one-upped you with the same style of outlandish humor - this is when you know you're in good company cut from the same cloth
25:10 Alex may be a bit cuckoo sometimes with his humor but instead of Monty Python, I would submit that a movie/character that embodies Alex's personality maybe Ryan Gosling's character in The Nice Guys. Vastly underrated comedy that would make for a great reaction video if Alex hasn't already done it ;)
I love that the level of chaotic humor in that call and how he answered was the perfect fit for the movie that he was watching xD. Imagine 'I fart in your general direction' being the most normal part of the call! I'd love to know what the next back-and-forth was :)
I’ve always loved the “cop out” ending. I also love that you chose to end it with Ni.
🐍✌🏼😎🇺🇸
I imagine that for at least the next 24 hours he would be insufferable as he shouts NI and utters other random quotes around the house
@@etc7070 So dire, times as these, where Alex can gallivant throughout his home, saying "Ni!" to the women of the house!
@@go-nogo1475” there is a pestilence upon this land”. 🤣
The man slapping the water with a stick is making the sounds of the "horses" riding through the stream. There are tons of little details like this in the movie.
This movie should be watched by every single generation moving forward, it's a humourous masterpiece!
8:00 "That was the weirdest scene I've ever seen in my life." The weirdest scene you've seen in your life SO FAR XD Not even 10 minutes into Monty Python's wild ride!
wait till he sees Life Of Bwian.
One thing (IMO) that always gets overlooked about this film is how talented the actors of Monty Python actually are. A small group of men play a large majority of the characters and most people don’t realize on their first watch. Some of them play two or three different characters, but because of their acting/comedy genius, no one notices.
And various members pop up on other famous movies and tv shows through the decades.
I know this and I still can't tell
Imagine, if you will, living in the 70's, and seeing Monty Python as a series, in half hour shows.
Now, imagine that you're a child watching John Cleese playing a man that's training other men in how to defend yourself if you're being attacked by a man with a banana.
Then skip along a little, and find the same John Cleese playing a man that's afflicted with a silly walk.
Basically, what I'm telling you is to seek out and watch Monty Python. Because you went from 'this is a stupid movie' to 'the greatest comedy of all time'. If you do, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Or a raspberry 😂
Crunchy frog anyone?
Or the Fish Slapping dance and the Parrot Sketch. My favourite is Bicycle Repairman
'How not to be seen' and 'mosquito hunting' are classics as well.
John Cleese attempting to buy cheese.
So a fun fact about the Black Knight, he's played by two different actors. One of the Pythons (John Cleese) and an actual one legged man (a local apparently), b/c Cleese couldn't hop around on one leg.
"Sir Not Appearing In This Film" was the son of one of the actors(Michael Palin).
'It's only a model' It was, in fact, a model. Iirc they wanted to use actual castles, as it was filmed in Scotland, but no one would let them use them (since all the castles are privately owned). All the castles seen in the film are either Doune Castle, just filmed at various angles, or miniatures.
Also, on the DVDs there's a subtitle track you can turn on that's called "Subtitles For People Who Don’t Like The Film" which is just lines from Shakespeare's 'Henry IV Part 2', cherry picked from the play to best resemble what the actors are saying on screen.
That Henry 4th subtitle is bloody brilliant, never knew that.
"message for you sir" used to be my dad's text message ringtone back in the day 😅
That movie had below 300k buget....BELOW...they had so little money there is a reason they didnt use horses..because they couldnt afford it
Thet also shot most scenes involving a castle at the same location just from different angles. xD
@@RaXXha you got to love that really and still better than Rings of Power …
Well... they had one horse... 🐎
@@hebusvontroyAnd a Møøse.
@@taqresu5865 And Llama's
when the black knight was starting to say "I'm inv" it cut to a commercial just like invincible... was fantastic
The black knight really should have been invincible but unfortunately for him Arthur had the ultimate magic sword Excalibur.
@@davidwebb4451Who’s to say he *wasn’t* invincible in much the same way as Deadpool? Granted that’s more along the lines of “immortal”, but still. As wholly unsurprised and unfazed as the legendary Sir Percival (proper name of this famous black knight, as I understand, though the movie never uses it) was by his grievous wounds, it makes one wonder-is he really *that* much of an idiot, or is he unbothered because he *has* had worse? I realize this may or may not be rather absurd, but it does make a weird amount of sense. (And as far as theories go, I’d argue that this is no more ridiculous than a lot of crackpot movie theories I’ve seen in RUclips comments. People really like to go through some wild mental gymnastics to find something either dark as hell or warm and fuzzy to fixate on.)
@@Armaldo468 maybe his limbs grow back like Deadpool and it takes time!
"I'd bet the horses are outlandish as shit"
Monty Python troupe: "Hold my beer...and coconut!"
As funny as it is, the actual castle used in the movie, you can get a coconut from the gift store and reenact the scenes from this movie!
Another fun fact: the cave where the killer rabbit lives is another place that Python fans regularly go to, where they leave stuffed rabbits, coconut husks and empty Chambord bottles. It's Tomnadashan mine on the banks of Loch Tay
Since I’m Gen X, I first encountered this movie on VHS. At that time, the Castle Anthrax scene from just before “Do you think this scene should have been cut?” to the final “GET ON WITH IT” was absent from the movie (it was added back in the early 2000’s and in all subsequent DVD releases). Obviously the answer to “Do you think this scene should have been cut” had been “yes.”
One result was that we didn’t get to see the assembled army ahead of time.
So in Spamalot, the Broadway version of this film written by one of the og members of Monty Python, Lancelot and Herbert (the son who always wants to sing) actually end up together. And yes, he finally gets a song 😂 It’s genuinely one of my favorite musicals of all time. Just like this movie is one of my all time favorites.
I've seen Spamalot 4 times and will totally see it again if /when given the chance.
Monty Python is slapstick humor on the surface only. There are layers of satiric depth underneath that draws from mythology, history, and in this case specifically Arthurian legend as well. The more you know, the deeper the satire cuts at humanity.
100%
Watery tarts distributing scimitars....
What a wonderful sendup of Arthurian legend, lol
Alex at various points watching the film: "This is the strangest/stupidest/craziest thing I've ever seen."
Me: "So far..."
28:27 my favorite running bit of the movie is Arthur not being able to count to three. It comes up a few times
😂😂😂
I used to have the book version of the script. You could see a lot of changes made between the script and the final version. One of them was that the rabbit originally killed five men, but they changed it to three. Rather than just have King Arthur say "We lost three men", they kept the original line "We lost five men", then had someone else correct him. Then they went through the rest of the script and everywhere the word "three" appeared, they crossed it out and wrote in "five".
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is the Ultimate Troll, of all time. No troll will ever Troll as hard as Monty Python and The Holy Grail.
Well, this movie was made with the little money the Pythons made from their series "Monty Python's Flying Circus".
It was very close to the concept of that show, with random often entirely absurdist scenes stitched together by even more random animations.
It was just the era for that style of absurdism. And they were the ambassadors of that style.
Their later movies had a much bigger budget (comparatively speaking). Not that it meant they were swimming in money.
George Harrison from the Beatles funded a total of £3 million at the time. Quite a lot for that time, mind you.
If it's any consolation to your ego, this film is not just random, stupid, and hilarious: it's actually very, very smart. So smart, in fact, that college professors show scenes from it to illustrate the medieval culture, practices, and superstitions that the film is taking the piss out of. Some of the most random elements of the film (e.g. the rabbit, the cats, the illustrations, the hedge knight, the monks smacking their heads with planks, etc) are actually grounded in very real history, adding yet another layer of hilarity to the film. So yes, it's definitely a compliment for your personality to be compared to this. 😜
Maybe, because everyone in Monty Python went to Oxford or Cambridge or both!
The best joke in this whole movie is that all the dialogue writers were fired at the beginning... So there is no end credits only music 😂😂😂 32:57
Nice idea, but it’s not true. Movies at that time often had opening credits (which they were required to have by the Directors’ Guild) and no end credits. Closing credits didn’t start to become a thing until around the time that this movie came out, and the current practice of limited or no opening credits and extensive end credits didn’t become the norm until a decade or so later.
@@markhamstra1083 I must fart in your general direction as I just fact checked your rebuttal. I found that Jaws, One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Rocky Horror Picture Show (picked multiple movies to check my sources... )All 1975 like this movies and all with sound and end credits?!? So I'll have to disagree and continue laughing at the hilarity that is about 10 min of music with a blank screen and zero text on screen due to the earlier sacking of the font specialist 😂. G'day
@@DaMunkey1 🙄 I didn’t say that no movies in 1975 had end credits. It’s just that minimal or no end credits was not yet unusual in 1975. The real reason for the lack of any end credits is that the film broke when the cop shoved his hand into the camera after the arrests.
@@markhamstra1083 I guess we agree to disagree. Having no credits due to the sacking is a hilarious call back in the earlier portion of the movie, fitting of the Monty Python style and wit of the film, while a blank screen with music playing over it for an overly extensive amount of time for the only reason that "the camera broke" seems very 'meh' by their standards. I will carry on in believing it is the prior and continue to laugh every time I see it. Cheers
@@DaMunkey1 Sure, you’re free to cling to your incorrect, anachronistic belief. The end music is meant to be “house music” that the theater management plays while they are experiencing technical difficulty with the broken film or while the audience exits at the end of the film, not part of the film itself.
The black knight is like when you're playing swordfights as a kid and that one kid just refuses to lose when you hit them down to the point where theyre hopping on one leg
One of my favourite memories is having this movie on DVD release (2 disc set)
Main menu - “special features” - select that option and get audio track
“For special features, insert disc two”
(Off camera sound effects) -“oh/hmm, zipp…squish/splish”
…”NO!…into your DVD player!”
“Oh…splish…zipp”
Sir Bedivere continually lifts his visor because the two vertical slats are directly in front of his eyes.
1:33 "I don't think I should be having this much fun reading the subtitles." No, you absolutely should XD. (Also highly recommend listening to the Spamalot soundtrack. Basically this movie but a Broadway musical)
George Harrison of The Beatles helped produce this movie.
Also, director, animator and Coconut Man, Terry Gilliam is one of the most famous movie directors in Hollywood. He directed the Monty Python movies, The Fisher King, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Time Bandits, Fear & Loathing In Los Vegas, The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen...
George financed Life of Brian. And has a bit part.
@@lisakaz35 Did he help finance both, or just Brian?
@TahoeNevada I had thought it just Brian but I couldn't say for sure. Eric Idle's story never mentions Grail.
25:38 Fanfact: He actually had a REALLY long and complicated name. But he forgot it and just said Tim. They liked it and just kept it in.
Nope. The script says Tim the Enchanter... Great story if it was true
@@Akaeus I'm pretty sure they changed the script afterwards. It's also the reason it sounds like he is asking as he said his name.
Next movie I big trouble in little china.
Per Twitter: "Some believe the Enchanter's name is Tim because John Cleese forgot the character's original name, and ad-libbed the line, "There are some who call me...Tim". However, Cleese disputes this. During a 2018 live tour, he said there was no improvisation in the final movie." Not sure who to trust, Twitter or fanfacts
not true at all - he is called Tim because that is funny and not suitable for a great wizard
Set during the plague. They had so many people dying that they did 'collect' them for mass burials.
Armies conducting a siege would also send plague-ridden corpses over walls with catapults. One of the first recorded instances of biological warfare.
The animation was a carry-over from their TV series. Terry Gilliam was the animator and the only American in the group. He played Patsy.
And the particular animations in this movie were based upon graffiti which bored medieval monks put in the margins of the books they were copying out by hand. The killer rabbit also is inspired by that graffiti since such rabbits appeared quite often for some reason.
Oh and the face guard vertical bars were placed where they are DIRECTLY in front of his eyes. He can’t see with it down.
21:18 the arrow twang and “Message for you sir” was my text message notification sound for awhile.
I'm still using it
My email sound is HAL from 2001, "You have a message waiting."
How do I obtain this???
@@SC-gp7kt Do a search for Monty Python Holy Grail message for you sir mp3. Many of the results will be for apps of ringtones. But, some will let you download the mp3
Actually, 'k-nig-its' is historically accurate. It's the way the Anglo-Saxons would have pronounced it. Several of the writers took medieval history in uni. Another one is when the Frenchman claims that "he's already got one." The first grail story is general accepted as Perceval ou le Conte du Graal, by Chretien de Troyes written in Old French.
You ask what was the budget for this movie. They did indeed run out of money, but then they approached a saviour who provided them with the amount needed to complete the film. Who? you ask? George Harrison. Provided with a script, he read it, and told the Pythons to go ahead. Thank you from the depths of my heart George.
The animation style of Terry Gilliam inspired South Park's animation.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker even made a short, recreating a famous Python sketch involving Cartman, Kenny and Kyle. The sketch was The Dead Parrot Sketch. A customer complaining that a parrot he just bought was dead, but the shopkeeper keeps telling him that the bird is simply just resting.
And Terry Gilliam, the animator and only American in Python, was the man behind Arthur banging the coconuts. He is also the director of Time Bandits, Baron Munchausen, Brazil, and other movies.
Well, he's...he's, ah... probably pining for the fjords.
@@vbtrobotics3652 The fjordddssssss?!?
@AndyPickle-fd5qr and Brazil is a must see!
@@AndyPickle-fd5qr 12 Monkeys (starring Bruce Willis)
Lancelot's story is my favourite. From the first arrow (message for you sir!), to the running, to murdering all the wedding guests, the princess (prince), the guards. It's perfect
“Thwang..message for you sir” when I get an email..for 20 years..going strong..
My late father, too. God rest his soul
I know someone who had that as a message tone on their mobile phone. For the longest time I thought it said "message for you man".
SAME! It cracks me and anyone nearby me up every time
I had the same for almost 15 years, in the 90s and early 2000s :)
Such a well delivered line, cracks me up every time.
The endless running and the drum roll will always be my favourite 🤣🤣 absolutely iconic
7:51 - "That was the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my life."
Me: "Buckle up."
Alex, what you have to understand about people telling you this is your movie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail walked so Deadpool could RUN.
And Spike Milligan crawled, so the Pythons could walk!!
Here before it's privatized again 👀
Hope this is a sign you're doing all the Monty Python things.
As a public service I go around telling people this when they react to this film (if they are Americans, anyway). When I was in the UK and we were watching this film on a movie night at dorms in Edinburgh University, all of the British kids were laughing their asses off at the whole "knights who say Ni' shrubbery thing, and I was like, "what is so damn funny? It's just another one of their nonsensical bits of humor that don't make sense?!"
So I asked them... and they explained it to me. It's a joke that both does not cross the Pond well and does not cross generations well because of slang, but in short it fits in with the entire vibe of the movie being about sex jokes and stuff, because it is basically that these guys have been out in the woods by themselves for a long time, and they miss... female companionship. So they send them into the nearest town to get a "shrub". But. A "shrub" is a bush... and a "bush"... is a prostitute. Which is why the old lady is so scandalized when they ask if there are any shrubberies in town. And then the guy they meet who is Roger the shrubber: To Roger means to f**k somebody, and if he's a "shrubber", that means he's a person who collects and sells shrubberies (AKA prostitutes)... so he's "F**ker the Pimp". So basically they've been out in the woods for a long time and they want them to bring them a prostitute... and then instead they actually bring a literal shrub, and they're like "ok, that's nice and beautiful and everything, but we want you to get what we're saying and actually bring us a willing GIRL". That's what's supposed to be amusing about it. The people who are playing Arthur and Knights of the Round Table are completely baffled by the references because they're so 'pure', even though they're surrounded by the subject.
Holy shit I never knew that!
@@meladammelen2842 and my work here is done, lol
@@meladammelen2842 Me either! As a kid I was always wondering why they wanted a shrubbery though they were surrounded by plants in the forest lol
thats fuckin hilarious
Arthur: "Good idea, O' Lord!"
Literally God: "OF COURSE ITS A GOOD IDEA"
This quote was the most prevalent at my house growing up. My dad used it all the time, often adding, "I thought of it!" I didn't realize what it was from until I finally got to watch the movie.
@@mckennamclaws146 that line always gets me haha, thats cool that it became a thing for your family, I'm sure it makes you think of your father
"a thousand bucks says the horse looks stupid as shit"
me dying of laughter already
"the tiny ass little rabbit?"
bahahahahahaahahahahahhahahaha
Growing up we would play "Monty Python dodgeball." Anywhere you got hit, you couldn't use anymore. It was awesome.
There is a Monty Python version of the Fluxx card game -- the ever-changing rule game. From the manufacturer: If Fluxx wasn't confusing and strange enough, now the Pythons have gotten involved with the proceedings and made it even more hysterical. Monty Python Fluxx now includes singing, fake accents, reciting Python dialog for extra cards, and pretty much everything else, short of farting in your general direction. (It is, after all, a game for the whole family.) Loosely based on concepts from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, there are guest appearances from King Arthur and all of his Knights, coconuts, a shrubbery, an unladen swallow, a trojan rabbit, a catapult, an airborne cow, the Holy Hand Grenade, and the Finger of God, as well as such Python classics as the giant foot, the nude organist, a resting parrot, and the Spanish Inquisition - which, of course everyone was expecting.
The fact that the only person with an actual horse is the murder suspect always gets me.
You will notice the Monty Python crew had no horses and they murderer was on a horse so they were framed.
You will forevermore recognize the phrase, if not use it, “‘tis but a flesh wound.”
Wooo! Hopefully it stays up this time
Friars in medieval times shaved the type of their heads to show humility.
Yup! That haircut is called a tonsure, and you can see it on Friar Tuck in Disney's Robin Hood (one of my faves from them) 😊
Alex, I dare you to have someone follow you around one day clacking two halves of coconuts together while you skip along pretending to be riding a horse, and a third person films it as it takes place.
😂😂😂😂🥥
When you watch anything Monty Python the rule is you don't ask questions, you accept it all.
Monty phythons ,life of Brian is a must see.
"You're on speaker don't say anything racist" 😂😂😂😂😂 trueeeee friend
I meeeeean I don't have to say that to my friends for them to not say something racist.... weird way to call yourself out.
@@shinobiqueenv6583 are you short? Cause I felt the joke was pretty low hanging for it to go over your head. He was making fun of Alex, ie why he (Alex) was on the back foot after the call 😂
@@shinobiqueenv6583 His friend was kidding - do you not make jokes with your friends?
@@thechonus3858I thought that until Alex said ‘we say the most outlandish shit to each other.’
What I heard was, ‘we say the most racist shit to each other..’
If you don't have friends that you can't trust on speaker then you must have no fun at all. I remember being on the phone to my mate while I worked at a small phone repair shop and it was just me in at the time and then a customer came in and I didn't end the call just took him off speaker and said "I'll be back in a min" and while I'm chatting to the customer all you can hear is my mate screaming "Help!!!" At the top off his lungs the twat. Luckily the customer had a sense of humour 🤣🤣