This is a bunch of very intelligent men with a low budget being very silly. It rains a lot here in the UK and makes us this way! Best wishes to you both.
Well, at the very least you could keep your lousy wet weather over there in the UK instead of carelessly passing it on to your poor neighbours to the North East. We are fed up with it here in Denmark, and if you are going to carry on with this shameless behaviour, we shall very soon have to build a very long 10 mile high wall to block it - AND of course make you very naughty people pay for this gigantic project 😂
@@Bjowolf2 -Terribly sorry old man. Never mind, the revenge of the northmen is already upon us as you are all kindly donating snow to us in the next week!🥶
@@rhodriwatts7525 As well as teaching you folks how to speak properly instead of sounding like closet Germans, as you used to do 😂 Check out the brilliant video from Langfocus called 'Viking Influence on the English Language". Hav en god dag [day(gh)], min [meen] frænd(e) 😊 PS Du (thou) kan have al vores (our(s)) sne 😉
"Is this humour way to clever or way to stupid?" Yes. The fact you laughed, giggled and smiled through out shows you got it and understood it perfectly.
This one wasn't very controversial, it was just the Monty Python team being very silly - but the next one "Life of Brian" caused a lot of trouble. Sir Gawain was supposed to be chaste, which is why he wanted to escape Castle Anthrax (at least at first). There weren't memes back in those days, the Internet had only just been invented - and it was only for the US military but it did get quoted a lot, person to person.
I mean, technically memes are simply viral ideas... They arguably existed before the internet,... In fact, it seems the term "meme" was apparently invented the year after this film came out... At least it was the first major use of the term, I think... Although the concept existed before that, it just didn't have a specific overarching term or whatever, that I'm aware of... While the modern meme is commonly spread through the internet, the internet was not where the meme was born... But yeah, technically any kind of trend could be considered a meme... Quoting is arguably a form of meme-ing...
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" Fun Fact: The famous depiction of galloping horses by using coconut shells (a traditional radio-show sound effect) came about from the purely practical reason that the production simply could not afford real horses. Metal Funding Fact: Funds earned by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) went towards funding this movie. The band were such fans of the show, they would halt recording sessions just to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969). Led Zeppelin and Genesis contributed to this movie's budget as well. Swallow This Fact: The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is roughly eleven meters per second, or twenty-four miles per hour, beating its wings seven to nine times per second rather than forty-three. It's true: A five-ounce bird cannot carry a one pound coconut, but furthermore, no swallow weighs five ounces. The English barn swallow weighs only twenty grams (two-thirds of an ounce). Historical Fact: The French tactic of pelting Arthur (Graham Chapman) and his knights with livestock echoes the relatively modern legend of a medieval siege of the fortified southern French town of Carcassonne. Said to have been near starvation, the townspeople used the last of their food to pelt the besieging army to convince them, suffering likewise, that the town was well stocked with food and that the siege was hopeless. The tactic was successful, and the siege was lifted.
@@stewartmackay It's intersting how the story about them not being able to afford horses has been widely accepted as true, when in fact you are correct- it isn't. The coconut gag was written as part of the early script.
Hamsters are highly sexed. Elderberries can be made into wine. The French guard was telling Arthur his mother was a whore and his father was a drunk. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.
So happy that you loved the stupid guards - "I thought you meant him!" Most reactors seem to skip over one of my favourite scenes, it is so cleverly written.
Of course, we know the police arrested the wrong men. The knight who murdered the historian couldn't have been part of Arthur's group... because he was the only one with a real horse!
A shrubbery is an arrangement of multiple shrubs (i.e. small plants) displayed in an attractive way ... not just a single plant. The end was what is called a literal "cop-out". You two wee a blast, and I found a new appreciation for the humor because of your never seeing this kind of humor before.
In the days before television (the first half of the 20th century), radio used to have all sorts of plays, from comedy to mystery. One important part of presenting these stories were the sound effects. Many ways these were quite ingenious. For instance, a large thin piece of sheet metal could be waved to create thunder. A piece of cellophane being crinkled might pass for a fire, or rain. Many such shows were westerns, and so of course these needed the sounds of horses, and coconut shells were the traditional way. But everyone at the time knew how the "behind the scenes sound effects" were created. Hence using coconut shells was more than just a way to get around not being able to afford horses, which is why the characters made such a point of discussing this.
King Arthur: "Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left!" Black Knight: "Yes I have." King Arthur: "Look!" Black Knight: "It's just a flesh wound!" 😂 It never...gets...old
The movie ended the way it did because they ran out of money. Their chain mail armor was actually knitted yarn because chain mail was too expensive and very heavy.
I'm impressed that you showed so much of the guard scene. To this day, if I misunderstand something my wife is explaining to me, she'll say, "Not to leave the room, even if you come and get him." I grew up watching Monty Python, so the ending made perfect sense to me. Great reaction, guys. 👍👍
@@PillowHero-jd6ie guys you cant without political shit yes? why you said about swamps? moscow build on 7 hills everyone exept modern ukranians know it. maybe Petersburg build on swamps like very civilizaded counties who can do it. Who had technology for it and because of it have big great history. И конечно вы напишите, что Питер построен на костях, но как бы я сам не критиковал Петра и его взбаумашный характер, это очередной миф, который так же не подтвердился. Просто ребят у вас слышен именно русский акцент в речи, и зачем то огромную Россию с горами, степями, тундрой, равнинами надо было свести к болотистой Англии. Смешно что Вам настолько часто повторяли мантру "Россия на болте построена", что вы её аж вместе повторили.
Great choice of movie. A good next Monty Python movie would be "The Life of Brian." Also, a few years later, one of these guys, John Cleese, made a really funny TV show called "Fawlty Towers" about an incompetent motel in rural England. You might want to try that.
Guys, this is Monty Python, there is no explaining their humor, it is just stupid stuff they thought of at the time. And it is funny, this is one of the best comedy movies ever made, and they made it really cheap, the reason they make horse noises instead of riding real horses, is because they did not have the money to rent horses for the movie.
Fun fact: The witch is played by Connie Booth, John Cleese's wife at the time, who would later cowrite the brilliant and hilarious TV comedy series Fawly Towers with John and play the roll of the hotel maid Polly 😉
I've been watching this since the 80s when I was a teen, but it's only recently that I understood fully how rude the Frenchman's insult is... "your mother was a hamster"... hamsters have huge litters, hence "your mum's loose" and "your father smells of elderberries" hence "your dad's a drunk".
About the knights who say "Ni'!"... So this movie is mostly a pardody of how modern people tend to see the Medieval period and it's usual portayal in media. People all dressed in dirty rags covered in shit is a nice example. "Must be a king, since he is not covered in shit." Of course Monty python knows that this is a complete nonsense and people actually dressed in very colouful clothes. But most people Today see medieval people as dirty, supersticious and incredibly stupid and they are making fun of the modern people who actually believe that. Another example is the part where Sir lancelot invades a castle and murders all the innocent weding guest, that part is parodying the myths and fairytales that feature some kind of damsel in disstress and a brave knight rescuing her. If you thing about it for 5 second, you realize how ridiculous notion that is. What is the knight going to do, invade the castle and murder all the innocent pople living there? Almost every part of this movie can be traced to some ridiculous modern misconception that people commonly believe. Of course we get that awesome part with the witch hunt. Truth is the worst witch hunts in history came after the mediaval period ended, but most people don't know that so we get a scene of riduculously idiotic crowd accussing a woman of witchcraft for absolutely no reason. And again the film is not making fun of the actual period, but of us dummies who actually believe that is what things were like back then. So the part with the knight who say "Ni!'" is probably parody of the typical fairytale, myth of medieval fantasy where the hero has some sort of fetch quest, or set of challanges to prove their worth. In these stories the hero usually have to overcome some completely nonsensical arbitrary challnges to prove their worthyness to mary the proness for example. So I think the knights who say "Ni!" is making fun of that trope.
Sometimes great movies really aren't about anything, The Big Lebowski is another great example. I recommend Lebowski as a good movie to react to, Jeff Bridges is a national treasure.
If it’s not been said, there was two reasons that they didn’t have horses for the group l. Firstly they didn’t have the budget for horses and second nobody knew how to ride a horse. It ended the way it did because they had no money for anything else. There is no credits at the end because they fired the people in charge of the credits at the beginning. When you have a chance go on line and watch some of the Monty Python stuff from their show. It is very funny in a way that is only from the british sense of humor. A movie that is very underrated that features most of the actors from Monty Python plus some other big names in comedy like Cheech and Chong is a movie called “Yellowbeard”. I think you would probably like it if you watch it.
It's good to see you two laughing and enjoying yourselves. Monty Python is the fun medicine 🤣. I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a much better new year. #PeaceOnEarth
1. What about the moose? 2. Paying attention to the opening credits makes it better for everyone, including you. 3. The first time I saw this was in the back of a pickup at a drive-in (it's still here) with my siblings and a couple of friends. 4. Perfect Monty Python where you can just get sucked into something where you don't have to think about anything and just let yourself go. 5. "What ya gonna do? Bleed on me." 🤣"we'll call it a draw" 🤣 6. Quick bit: "Blow it out your ass"! 7. The ultimate cock block 😭 8. Robin's shield is a chicken. 9.The only horse in the film is ridden by the guy that killed the historian. 10.The ending sucked. It was a cop out. Literally They ran out of 🤑🤑
There many medieval stories about King Arthur and the Holy Grail and in most of them, the Grail was not found. The cycle is really about a spiritual quest to gain better understanding about God. Therefore, the ending of the film make sense in a way.
Even when it is found, it’s not necessarily secured. When Percival finds it, he doesn’t even do anything with it. Galahad is also supposed to find it, but he got rather distracted in the Monty Python account of the legend. 😄
The owner of the rabbit was not happy when it was returned after the scene was filmed, because it had lots of red stains on it which wouldn’t come out!
I think you guys would really enjoy 'The Life of Brian' - a second Monty Python movie which is a satire of history and religion, as well as 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - a sketch comedy TV show, which is hilarious if you're into this style of humour!
I've always seen "Life of Brian" as a satire of people, as they don't listen to true wise men, they're always bickering and fighting with each other, and they're full of themselves.
The most enthusiastic reaction I've seen to this one! This is one of my personal favorite films of all time. It's so fun to see someone else enjoy it as much. "Swamp Castle" is also one of my favorite scenes. The way the boys wrote the scene with the guards should- as you observed- be repetitive and annoying. But in the hands of such comedy masters, they allow it build, and ricochet around the realm of misunderstanding in so many different ways, that it continues to be funnier and funnier the longer it goes on. And it is played in basically one shot! They don't bother with a lot of cuts and close-ups; it's just two guards (one with the hiccups) and one increasingly more annoyed king. One of Michael Palin's best roles (and that's saying something!). Terry Jones is practically unrecognizable in his makeup; I don't know what they did to him to make him look so gaunt and pale, but he's perfect, opposite Palin's balding, bearded, pompous blow-hard of a father. Just great. Regarding the "Knights of Ni" there is no context. It is pure absurdism. It is a ridiculous nonsense syllable, that they cleverly illustrate to be some kind of dreaded curse, that everyone reacts to. A shrubbery is a bush, a plant.
There were only two castles used in the entire movie. The first castle was used several times from different angles. The second castle is a private residence.
Delightful reaction post! I was going to compliment you on picking up all the humor in this classic, being that it is so distant in time and geography, but then you said you have similar humor in your domestic media. Well, at least you got a lot of laughs from it. Especially from the guards in Swamp Castle. Did you miss the point of "She has huge...tracts of land." as the father held his hands in front of his chest? This is a wonderfully silly movie that hopefully will stick with you forever. It has for me.
I got the joke about boobs, just it's way too simple. Maybe back in the days, I would laugh, but I heard this kind of joke in my childhood way too many times 😅
You really loved that session between the Lord of Swamp Castle and the idiot guard. You mentioned at the end how they had let the joke run on for a long time and kept it funny. I feel the opposite: it went on far too long and did grow stale. I feel like it breaks up the flow of the film. And I wouldn't have minded at all if they had cut the Castle Anthrax scene; it seems a bit pointless, even for the Pythons. I still love the movie, of course; the jokes in the credits are some of the funniest jokes in the film.
Monty Python on tv was a big success, partly due to such nonsensical lines. The day after each broadcast, people at work standing around the water cooler (when they used to have water coolers in offices) would throw these silly lines back and forth to each other, sort of way of showing they were "hip" and in the know, a sort of secret code, to the bewilderment of people who didn't watch.
I know people may attempt to explain this movie, but there's really no point. It's British and it's Monty python. It's very silly mental acrobatics. It's not supposed to make sense. ✌️❤️🇬🇧
Monty Python's world view does have a point. It has always focused on human beings being nothing but silly sots. We humans do the stupidest, silliest, most absurd things. Therefore, the Pythons' skits always play to the absurd. They take satire to the highest levels.
I gather from the reaction that "Pillow Hero" are Russian. I'm American, and it's just so gratifying we can all laugh at the same material. I know if "Pillow Hero" were in my home we'd all have a great time. That is, by the way, an open invitation--we'd gladly host "Pillow Hero" in our home.
I've always thought that the knights who say "ni" was a commentary of people being offended and oversensitive to particular words. Of course Monty Python took it to absurd extremes to make the point which is quite relevant today though the set of forbidden words have changed. Back then it was vulgar or sexual words in media, now it's pronouns or other words deemed insensitive to various identities. Comedians in general have always been firmly on the side of free speech.
I made a similar post a few minutes ago, but it vanished for some reason. I also interpreted the "Knights of Ni" as a satire of "bad words" and how people are afraid of them and appear hurt by them.
hey guys, good reaction, just some feedback but if I was you I'd add an introduction where you give how much you know about the movie, some personal background, etc. It adds to the context. Anyways I'm glad to see that ukraine has similar humor here I'm going to have to check it out.
We did intros a few months ago, but kinda tired of it since we mostly don't know anything about it 😅 We just see what reactions are popular on other channels and watch it
yes, the comedy is very clever and very stupid at the same time. i want a girlfriend that has huge tracks of land. and where was the moose and they did not kill the historian, they did not have any horses. and now i am afraid of bunnies.
They traded the moose for the horse, and the coconuts. It was a very nice moose, except it didn’t get along with the rabbit, which was more crucial to the plot.
You two have turned this great movie into toothless children's version with your senseless and ill-founded interventions. And don't make excuses for RUclips! There is apparently even much stricter censorship in in former Soviet Union countries than in the United States.
@@PillowHero-jd6ie Check out other reactions to this movie on RUclips . So how is it possible that most RUclipsrs do not censor these bloody scenes at all and they still have their videos there without any problems!? For that matter, RUclips does not mandate or impose age restrictions on videos there. Your pusillanimity and cowardice won't really win you new followers of this channel I wish you a merry Christmas and better work in the future (that is, if you want me and like-minded people to come back to you again)
i checked and you clearly can see that they got +18 for this scenes. RUclips gave us on "Full Metal Jacket" demonetization for slurs IN THE FILM after which, it won't show in any recommendations... So, please, don't teach us without any experience on this platform
This is a bunch of very intelligent men with a low budget being very silly. It rains a lot here in the UK and makes us this way! Best wishes to you both.
Three cheers for the British rain
😃👍
Well, at the very least you could keep your lousy wet weather over there in the UK instead of carelessly passing it on to your poor neighbours to the North East.
We are fed up with it here in Denmark, and if you are going to carry on with this shameless behaviour, we shall very soon have to build a very long 10 mile high wall to block it - AND of course make you very naughty people pay for this gigantic project 😂
@@Bjowolf2 -Terribly sorry old man. Never mind, the revenge of the northmen is already upon us as you are all kindly donating snow to us in the next week!🥶
@@rhodriwatts7525 As well as teaching you folks how to speak properly instead of sounding like closet Germans, as you used to do 😂
Check out the brilliant video from Langfocus called 'Viking Influence on the English Language".
Hav en god dag [day(gh)], min [meen] frænd(e) 😊
PS Du (thou) kan have al vores (our(s)) sne 😉
Hopefully it didn’t rain during production. I heard the “chainmail” those knights wore was actually yarn.
"Is this humour way to clever or way to stupid?" Yes. The fact you laughed, giggled and smiled through out shows you got it and understood it perfectly.
This one wasn't very controversial, it was just the Monty Python team being very silly - but the next one "Life of Brian" caused a lot of trouble. Sir Gawain was supposed to be chaste, which is why he wanted to escape Castle Anthrax (at least at first). There weren't memes back in those days, the Internet had only just been invented - and it was only for the US military but it did get quoted a lot, person to person.
Sir Galahad you mean?
I mean, technically memes are simply viral ideas... They arguably existed before the internet,... In fact, it seems the term "meme" was apparently invented the year after this film came out... At least it was the first major use of the term, I think... Although the concept existed before that, it just didn't have a specific overarching term or whatever, that I'm aware of... While the modern meme is commonly spread through the internet, the internet was not where the meme was born... But yeah, technically any kind of trend could be considered a meme... Quoting is arguably a form of meme-ing...
@@KitsyX With a government grant, you could develop that explanation further.
@@mikejankowski6321 I think with government backing @kitsyx could make it very silly
"What do you burn _apart_ from witches?"
"MORE WITCHES!" 🤣
This movie is the epitome of “intelligent silliness “😂
No It Isn't!
Allusions to the argument clinic will be punished by the Spanish inquisition
@@jamesalexander5623 Yes it is! Bring in the comfy chair.
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
Fun Fact: The famous depiction of galloping horses by using coconut shells (a traditional radio-show sound effect) came about from the purely practical reason that the production simply could not afford real horses.
Metal Funding Fact: Funds earned by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) went towards funding this movie. The band were such fans of the show, they would halt recording sessions just to watch Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969). Led Zeppelin and Genesis contributed to this movie's budget as well.
Swallow This Fact: The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is roughly eleven meters per second, or twenty-four miles per hour, beating its wings seven to nine times per second rather than forty-three. It's true: A five-ounce bird cannot carry a one pound coconut, but furthermore, no swallow weighs five ounces. The English barn swallow weighs only twenty grams (two-thirds of an ounce).
Historical Fact: The French tactic of pelting Arthur (Graham Chapman) and his knights with livestock echoes the relatively modern legend of a medieval siege of the fortified southern French town of Carcassonne. Said to have been near starvation, the townspeople used the last of their food to pelt the besieging army to convince them, suffering likewise, that the town was well stocked with food and that the siege was hopeless. The tactic was successful, and the siege was lifted.
No it didn't, they were part of the film as a joke obviously, it wasn't because they couldn't afford horses lol.
@@stewartmackay It's intersting how the story about them not being able to afford horses has been widely accepted as true, when in fact you are correct- it isn't. The coconut gag was written as part of the early script.
@@cerisambrook7692 I got married in the Castle Aaarg, which is actually Castle Stalker, in the highlands, where I'm from.
Hamsters are highly sexed. Elderberries can be made into wine. The French guard was telling Arthur his mother was a whore and his father was a drunk.
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.
So happy that you loved the stupid guards - "I thought you meant him!" Most reactors seem to skip over one of my favourite scenes, it is so cleverly written.
Of course, we know the police arrested the wrong men.
The knight who murdered the historian couldn't have been part of Arthur's group... because he was the only one with a real horse!
I wonder how he got the horse. I guess he could have traded a moose for it.
@@0okamino Or a llama.
@@0okaminomaybe it was made by……. Tim?
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Also his heraldry was different. Though its only briefly shown it appears to have been a Blue Lion (?) Rampant - which no one else in the movie wears.
There is no context that could ever frame Monty python. They are completely unhinged, and we love them for it.
A shrubbery is an arrangement of multiple shrubs (i.e. small plants) displayed in an attractive way ... not just a single plant. The end was what is called a literal "cop-out". You two wee a blast, and I found a new appreciation for the humor because of your never seeing this kind of humor before.
In the days before television (the first half of the 20th century), radio used to have all sorts of plays, from comedy to mystery. One important part of presenting these stories were the sound effects. Many ways these were quite ingenious. For instance, a large thin piece of sheet metal could be waved to create thunder. A piece of cellophane being crinkled might pass for a fire, or rain. Many such shows were westerns, and so of course these needed the sounds of horses, and coconut shells were the traditional way. But everyone at the time knew how the "behind the scenes sound effects" were created. Hence using coconut shells was more than just a way to get around not being able to afford horses, which is why the characters made such a point of discussing this.
Never hire budget castle guards!
King Arthur: "Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left!"
Black Knight: "Yes I have."
King Arthur: "Look!"
Black Knight: "It's just a flesh wound!" 😂
It never...gets...old
It takes a "special "sense of humor to follow Monty Python ❤
The movie ended the way it did because they ran out of money.
Their chain mail armor was actually knitted yarn because chain mail was too expensive and very heavy.
I love it because is so low budget and they don't hide it.. Absolutely hilarious 😂
I'm impressed that you showed so much of the guard scene. To this day, if I misunderstand something my wife is explaining to me, she'll say, "Not to leave the room, even if you come and get him." I grew up watching Monty Python, so the ending made perfect sense to me. Great reaction, guys. 👍👍
So awesome to see Ukrainians familiar with Worms and The Holy Hand Grenade. Excellent videos!
Our pleasure!
@@PillowHero-jd6ie guys you cant without political shit yes? why you said about swamps? moscow build on 7 hills everyone exept modern ukranians know it. maybe Petersburg build on swamps like very civilizaded counties who can do it. Who had technology for it and because of it have big great history. И конечно вы напишите, что Питер построен на костях, но как бы я сам не критиковал Петра и его взбаумашный характер, это очередной миф, который так же не подтвердился. Просто ребят у вас слышен именно русский акцент в речи, и зачем то огромную Россию с горами, степями, тундрой, равнинами надо было свести к болотистой Англии. Смешно что Вам настолько часто повторяли мантру "Россия на болте построена", что вы её аж вместе повторили.
All former USSR know that game. Worms 2 was translated by russian studio and still popular in all fromer USSR republics.
What’s funny is that for people who are into mediaeval history, Monty Python and Holly Grail is actually quite accurate.
Welcome to the absurdist world of Monty Python, where nothing is sacred, everyone is fair game, and the laughs are always SILLY!
😆😆😆
Great choice of movie. A good next Monty Python movie would be "The Life of Brian." Also, a few years later, one of these guys, John Cleese, made a really funny TV show called "Fawlty Towers" about an incompetent motel in rural England. You might want to try that.
Hey, these two ain’t from Barcelona, you know. 😉
@@0okamino He's from Barcelona.
@@brandonflorida1092 Ah, I will have to forgive him then.
@@0okamino Dey knouw nauzzing 😂
"We want . . . ANOTHER SHRUBBERY !" :D
After watching this film, I can't get this freaking word out of my head!!! 🤣🤣
Guys, this is Monty Python, there is no explaining their humor, it is just stupid stuff they thought of at the time. And it is funny, this is one of the best comedy movies ever made, and they made it really cheap, the reason they make horse noises instead of riding real horses, is because they did not have the money to rent horses for the movie.
Fun fact: The witch is played by Connie Booth, John Cleese's wife at the time, who would later cowrite the brilliant and hilarious TV comedy series Fawly Towers with John and play the roll of the hotel maid Polly 😉
I’ve always loved the ending of this movie. It was truly a “cop out” in every sense of the word. 🐍✌🏼😎🇺🇸
Now there's a guy who loves a good laugh. Monty Python has a new fan base.
I've been watching this since the 80s when I was a teen, but it's only recently that I understood fully how rude the Frenchman's insult is... "your mother was a hamster"... hamsters have huge litters, hence "your mum's loose" and "your father smells of elderberries" hence "your dad's a drunk".
the last scene- is a 'cop out'
You can't be a fan of this movie unless you know how many times a swallow needs to beat its wings every second. ( European, not African swallow)
About the knights who say "Ni'!"...
So this movie is mostly a pardody of how modern people tend to see the Medieval period and it's usual portayal in media. People all dressed in dirty rags covered in shit is a nice example. "Must be a king, since he is not covered in shit." Of course Monty python knows that this is a complete nonsense and people actually dressed in very colouful clothes. But most people Today see medieval people as dirty, supersticious and incredibly stupid and they are making fun of the modern people who actually believe that. Another example is the part where Sir lancelot invades a castle and murders all the innocent weding guest, that part is parodying the myths and fairytales that feature some kind of damsel in disstress and a brave knight rescuing her. If you thing about it for 5 second, you realize how ridiculous notion that is. What is the knight going to do, invade the castle and murder all the innocent pople living there? Almost every part of this movie can be traced to some ridiculous modern misconception that people commonly believe. Of course we get that awesome part with the witch hunt. Truth is the worst witch hunts in history came after the mediaval period ended, but most people don't know that so we get a scene of riduculously idiotic crowd accussing a woman of witchcraft for absolutely no reason. And again the film is not making fun of the actual period, but of us dummies who actually believe that is what things were like back then.
So the part with the knight who say "Ni!'" is probably parody of the typical fairytale, myth of medieval fantasy where the hero has some sort of fetch quest, or set of challanges to prove their worth. In these stories the hero usually have to overcome some completely nonsensical arbitrary challnges to prove their worthyness to mary the proness for example. So I think the knights who say "Ni!" is making fun of that trope.
Sometimes great movies really aren't about anything, The Big Lebowski is another great example. I recommend Lebowski as a good movie to react to, Jeff Bridges is a national treasure.
If it’s not been said, there was two reasons that they didn’t have horses for the group l. Firstly they didn’t have the budget for horses and second nobody knew how to ride a horse. It ended the way it did because they had no money for anything else. There is no credits at the end because they fired the people in charge of the credits at the beginning. When you have a chance go on line and watch some of the Monty Python stuff from their show. It is very funny in a way that is only from the british sense of humor. A movie that is very underrated that features most of the actors from Monty Python plus some other big names in comedy like Cheech and Chong is a movie called “Yellowbeard”. I think you would probably like it if you watch it.
I think Cleese sort of knew how to ride a horse because of the Dennis Moore skits, but that’s about it.
"Is this humor too clever for me to understand, or too stupid?" I think it's both :D
I'm glad you enjoyed the 2 dumb guards scene, it's one of my favourites and some reactors seem to cut it out entirely.
I love the Camelot song and dance routine.
When I saw this as a kid I was so mad at the ending, but now I've come to love the movie
The ending trolls the audience as much as the intermission and opening credits.
It's good to see you two laughing and enjoying yourselves. Monty Python is the fun medicine 🤣. I hope you have a Merry Christmas and a much better new year. #PeaceOnEarth
Same to you! 😁
At that time, theater of the absurd was in vogue, and Monty Python was part of that movement
1. What about the moose?
2. Paying attention to the opening credits makes it better for everyone, including you.
3. The first time I saw this was in the back of a pickup at a drive-in (it's still here) with my siblings and a couple of friends.
4. Perfect Monty Python where you can just get sucked into something where you don't have to think about anything and just let yourself go.
5. "What ya gonna do? Bleed on me." 🤣"we'll call it a draw" 🤣
6. Quick bit: "Blow it out your ass"!
7. The ultimate cock block 😭
8. Robin's shield is a chicken.
9.The only horse in the film is ridden by the guy that killed the historian.
10.The ending sucked. It was a cop out. Literally
They ran out of 🤑🤑
You can tell how much this type of humour impresses her :D
There many medieval stories about King Arthur and the Holy Grail and in most of them, the Grail was not found. The cycle is really about a spiritual quest to gain better understanding about God. Therefore, the ending of the film make sense in a way.
Even when it is found, it’s not necessarily secured. When Percival finds it, he doesn’t even do anything with it. Galahad is also supposed to find it, but he got rather distracted in the Monty Python account of the legend. 😄
@@0okamino Yes, I am thinking about Indiana Jones find the Grail and having it vanish in front of him.
The owner of the rabbit was not happy when it was returned after the scene was filmed, because it had lots of red stains on it which wouldn’t come out!
I think you guys would really enjoy 'The Life of Brian' - a second Monty Python movie which is a satire of history and religion, as well as 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' - a sketch comedy TV show, which is hilarious if you're into this style of humour!
I've always seen "Life of Brian" as a satire of people, as they don't listen to true wise men, they're always bickering and fighting with each other, and they're full of themselves.
@@Stogie2112 Yeah definitely true!
@@Stogie2112socio-political comedy
Buckle up. This movie is silly and goofy and completely hilarious.
The most enthusiastic reaction I've seen to this one! This is one of my personal favorite films of all time. It's so fun to see someone else enjoy it as much.
"Swamp Castle" is also one of my favorite scenes. The way the boys wrote the scene with the guards should- as you observed- be repetitive and annoying. But in the hands of such comedy masters, they allow it build, and ricochet around the realm of misunderstanding in so many different ways, that it continues to be funnier and funnier the longer it goes on. And it is played in basically one shot! They don't bother with a lot of cuts and close-ups; it's just two guards (one with the hiccups) and one increasingly more annoyed king. One of Michael Palin's best roles (and that's saying something!). Terry Jones is practically unrecognizable in his makeup; I don't know what they did to him to make him look so gaunt and pale, but he's perfect, opposite Palin's balding, bearded, pompous blow-hard of a father. Just great.
Regarding the "Knights of Ni" there is no context. It is pure absurdism. It is a ridiculous nonsense syllable, that they cleverly illustrate to be some kind of dreaded curse, that everyone reacts to.
A shrubbery is a bush, a plant.
monty python got the oldest murder rabbit i known to cienema (to my knowledge)
Now you have to watch The Life of Brian.
You have to do "monty pythons life of Brian ' now
There were only two castles used in the entire movie. The first castle was used several times from different angles. The second castle is a private residence.
Well, -five- three, but one was only a model. 😉
I like her fake laughing for 90% of the movie and only doing it after he laughs.
Delightful reaction post! I was going to compliment you on picking up all the humor in this classic, being that it is so distant in time and geography, but then you said you have similar humor in your domestic media. Well, at least you got a lot of laughs from it. Especially from the guards in Swamp Castle. Did you miss the point of "She has huge...tracts of land." as the father held his hands in front of his chest? This is a wonderfully silly movie that hopefully will stick with you forever. It has for me.
I got the joke about boobs, just it's way too simple. Maybe back in the days, I would laugh, but I heard this kind of joke in my childhood way too many times 😅
Great reaction as always, you HAVE to follow up with Monty Pythons Life of Brian, even more scandalous!
You really loved that session between the Lord of Swamp Castle and the idiot guard. You mentioned at the end how they had let the joke run on for a long time and kept it funny. I feel the opposite: it went on far too long and did grow stale. I feel like it breaks up the flow of the film. And I wouldn't have minded at all if they had cut the Castle Anthrax scene; it seems a bit pointless, even for the Pythons. I still love the movie, of course; the jokes in the credits are some of the funniest jokes in the film.
There is no explanation for this brilliant LARP of a movie. It just it.
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Hello, your reactions were perfect. This movie can be an excellent distraction. " Hey! "
Monty Python on tv was a big success, partly due to such nonsensical lines. The day after each broadcast, people at work standing around the water cooler (when they used to have water coolers in offices) would throw these silly lines back and forth to each other, sort of way of showing they were "hip" and in the know, a sort of secret code, to the bewilderment of people who didn't watch.
I know people may attempt to explain this movie, but there's really no point.
It's British and it's Monty python.
It's very silly mental acrobatics.
It's not supposed to make sense.
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Monty Python's world view does have a point. It has always focused on human beings being nothing but silly sots.
We humans do the stupidest, silliest, most absurd things. Therefore, the Pythons' skits always play to the absurd. They take satire to the highest levels.
Hi there, Can you watch ''Monty Python The Life Of Brian'' please...!
It was a very low budget film....
Well, they forgot to factor in inflation. It would have been considered a significantly higher budget in 932 AD.
Medieval was pleasant the plague happened during the early renaisance
A last, reactors who get the plague reference.
I gather from the reaction that "Pillow Hero" are Russian. I'm American, and it's just so gratifying we can all laugh at the same material. I know if "Pillow Hero" were in my home we'd all have a great time. That is, by the way, an open invitation--we'd gladly host "Pillow Hero" in our home.
Ukrainians*
I've always thought that the knights who say "ni" was a commentary of people being offended and oversensitive to particular words. Of course Monty Python took it to absurd extremes to make the point which is quite relevant today though the set of forbidden words have changed. Back then it was vulgar or sexual words in media, now it's pronouns or other words deemed insensitive to various identities. Comedians in general have always been firmly on the side of free speech.
I made a similar post a few minutes ago, but it vanished for some reason.
I also interpreted the "Knights of Ni" as a satire of "bad words" and how people are afraid of them and appear hurt by them.
Well, it's not in spam. Maybe RUclips lagged. Sometimes, it happens 🤔
Well, then I’ll have the spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, and spam. I’m trying to cut down on the spam.
I suggest you guys watch life of Brian and the Meaning of Life
It is very interesting to see your reaction to the film Terminator 3. This is a cool movie 👍🔥🦾
Next year 😂
Ok, and Robocop?
Robocop as well
Ni doesn't mean anything, it's just a funny thing to say.
Indiana Jones please
Ms Pillow looks like Lana Del Rey, called it first.
hey guys, good reaction, just some feedback but if I was you I'd add an introduction where you give how much you know about the movie, some personal background, etc. It adds to the context. Anyways I'm glad to see that ukraine has similar humor here I'm going to have to check it out.
We did intros a few months ago, but kinda tired of it since we mostly don't know anything about it 😅
We just see what reactions are popular on other channels and watch it
@@PillowHero-jd6ie sure, but you could give an intro to yourselves...
This was my first time on this channel and I have to say it was fun to see someone get the humor. Not everybody does. Blazing Saddles next, I think.
We already have it on the channel, check it :)
@@PillowHero-jd6ie Bad phraseology on my part. Meant that's where I was going next. Have a good rest of the week.
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Why does your screen shot keep blurring out?
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You should catch Abbit and Costello Who's On First
So what did the cat do in your lap?
Just chilling 😎
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React to "3 idiots" Bollywood/Indian movie (genre:comedy drama friendship)
Watch Jabberwocky..1978. Better
To me anyway. It's made by the same people. Not as over the top but more of a serious feel with over the top comedy. Makes it better in my opinion
"Nie" means never in german. 😅
yes, the comedy is very clever and very stupid at the same time. i want a girlfriend that has huge tracks of land. and where was the moose and they did not kill the historian, they did not have any horses. and now i am afraid of bunnies.
They traded the moose for the horse, and the coconuts. It was a very nice moose, except it didn’t get along with the rabbit, which was more crucial to the plot.
hey your 24
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both of you would not have been on earth---wtf
You two have turned this great movie into toothless children's version with your senseless and ill-founded interventions.
And don't make excuses for RUclips! There is apparently even much stricter censorship in in former Soviet Union countries
than in the United States.
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@@PillowHero-jd6ie Copyright for chopped limbs and evil murdering rabbit 😁
Oh, you mean these parts. You will laugh, but RUclips gives +18 restrictions for those scenes 😅
Apparently, this is way too gory
@@PillowHero-jd6ie Check out other reactions to this movie on RUclips .
So how is it possible that most RUclipsrs do not censor these bloody scenes at all and they still have their videos there without any problems!?
For that matter, RUclips does not mandate or impose age restrictions on videos there.
Your pusillanimity and cowardice won't really win you new followers of this channel
I wish you a merry Christmas and better work in the future (that is, if you want me and like-minded people to come back to you again)
i checked and you clearly can see that they got +18 for this scenes. RUclips gave us on "Full Metal Jacket" demonetization for slurs IN THE FILM after which, it won't show in any recommendations... So, please, don't teach us without any experience on this platform
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