The only reason it was the only horse in the film was because there wasn't enough in the film budget to give everyone a horse and only enough to rent 1 horse for like, an hour.
The "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!" line is actually an insult: he's insulting the mother's virtue by insinuating promiscuity by likening her to an animal like the hamster that breeds rapidly, and elderberries were used to make wine and other alcohol, so he's calling the father a drunk as well. It's actually rather clever haha
And hamsters have an outrageously high tolerance for alcohol due to their tendency to eat very fermented seeds. So, the mother is a promiscuous alcoholic, and the father likely shacked up with her while drunk.
@@dpall38”Every minute of this screams clever.” My brain: “I faaart in your general direction.” (I actually agree but I couldn’t help but think of that line lmao.)
The references were meant as insults, "your mother was a hamster", was calling Arthurs mother a whore, and "your father smelt of elderberries" meant that his father was a drunk.
The guys were notorious for not ending skits so with this being their first movie,they literally ended it with a "cop out". Also, the murderer couldn't have been any of the knights because he was the only one on a real horse.
The intermission thing is because back in the day, they used to have a sizable break in the middle of the movie so people could get more snacks, visit the restroom etc. So they were actually trolling movie goers into standing up and then having to run back to their seats. Same with the subtitles.
One of the funniest things to me is the fact that they used coconuts because they couldn’t afford horses for the movie, but the guy that killed the historian was on a horse 😂
Which is how we know it wasn't one of Arthur's gang. By the way, no matter how much you slo-mo that scene, you cannot see what coat of arms he's wearing.
Urban myth. The coconut-clopping serfs acting as horses was just a silly idea dreamt up by Michael Palin during the early "ideas" stage... long before the script was finalised and way, way before they knew what budget they had to work with.
The coconuts was because of money as they had enough for one horse and so used it to set up the cop-out ending. The animated parts is also because they ran out of money and still had scenes to do, so they went with cartoons.
Nothing makes me happier than seeing my favorite reactors experience this masterpiece for the first time! Monty Python's Life of Brian is, if anything, even better, so highly recommend that too!!
If you have not seen their TV shows then I would also recommend "And Now For Something Completely Different", which is a collection of the best sketches from their TV series re-shot for the film
You were correct that all the Monty Python guys played multiple characters. John Cleese was Lancelot, the Black Knight, the taunting French guy, the Wizard Tim, the guy the witch turned into a Newt (he got better) and a few more
Also, Michael Palin was Dennis the peasant, Sir Galahad, the Swamp Castle king, and one or two others. Eric Idle was Sir Robin, the corpse gatherer, one of the Swamp Castle guards, Roger the Shrubber, Brother Maynard. Terry Jones was Sir Bedevere and Alice...I mean Herbert. He also co-directed the film. Terry Gilliam did the animations, and also played Patsy with the coconuts, and also co-directed And Graham Chapman was Arthur and the hiccuping guard.
Also the (Sir Robin's) minstrel who sings was played by the wonderful Neil Innes, who wrote the songs for the film. We lost him a few years ago but I remember a TV programme here in the UK called The Innes Book of Records, which was a vehicle for his whimsical genius. Very talented man.
@@quasarsphereTerry Jones wasn't Herbert/Alice. He was the leader of the Knights who say Ni, one of the three headed monster, Sir Bedivere and the female peasant collecting lovely filth.
This came out when I was 15. Very few Americans had heard of Monty Python then. I went to see it at the drive in with my brother and his wife. Of course, we were nicely toasted. We all missed so much of it, laughing and crying, that we went back the next night even though we were sore from it. Holy Grail was so popular that many local PBS stations started running the BBC series Monty Python's Flying Circus. Which many teenagers and young adults followed religiously. I'm in my mid 60s now and still love them.❤❤❤
Monty Python's Flying Circus was on PBS at 10pm on Sunday nights in the NYC area starting around 1970. It was cutting edge humor way before it's time. Sort of an early version of SNL. But all short skits. The whole cast from the show was in this movie. I was 10 at the time and much too young to be watching it, but my MUCH older brother, he was about 28, would have me over his place to watch it with him and his wife. And I was hooked. So when this came out 5 years later of course my friends and I ran to see it. The movie is pretty much a much longer, one themed, version of the show. So we were not disappointed. The genius of this movie is that many of the historical things depicted as sill in this movie actually happened. During plague times, the had dudes with carts collecting the dead. Of course you know the witch stuffed happened. And the guy flogging himself was an actual religious cult that was part of Christianity. They were called self-flagellation and they did it to purge their sins. It was a very popular movement at one time.
The intermittent beating of cats in the film also goes back to the plague times where it was thought they brought the disease, not knowing it was rats (fleas). Killing the cats, that would have reduced the rat population just made the plague spread more. I loved this film and can't wait for your reaction to Life of Brian.
There are some movies that are just absolute cornerstones of their genre. For comedies, this is the first that comes to mind, followed by Airplane! and Tropic Thunder. I'm absolutely convinced that at some point I saw a cut of the scene where a whole army appears out of nowhere and in this cut, after the army forms up Bedevere gives Arthur a puzzled look. Arthur shrugs and says "Well, I am a King, you know!" One day I will prove it's existence...
I think that's the scene where Bedevere asks how he knows so much about swallows, and Arthur replies "well you have to know these things as king, you know"
The film was so low budget they didn't even have the money to hire a rabbit for that scene. They knocked on some doors at a nearby town, and borrowed a little girl's pet rabbit. They promised to bring the rabbit back and did, but returned it covered in fake blood because they couldn't get the dye out!
Here, have a little more trivia: John Young played two characters (both of whom get killed). He was the old man who John Cleese carried out to the cart who's "not quite dead" and the famous historian killed by the knight riding _the only horse_ in the movie. The photograph of Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Film was that of Michael Palin's son, William. The page turning hand in the first part of the movie belonged to Maggie Weston, Terry Gilliam's wife. Terry was the gorilla hand that pulled the other one away from the book. They've been married since 1973. Neil Innes composed many songs used by the Pythons and appeared in this movie as both Robin's lead minstrel and as the serf who got crushed by the Trojan Rabbit.
maybe a small detail but Patsy (the coconut guy servant) is played by Terry Gilliam - oscar nominated director, maker of such classics as "Brazil", "Tideland", "Fear and loathing in Las Vegas" and others
I always love at the end to see how long reactors sit through the black screen with music playing, and that is how you troll the entire planet for an hour n half
I've heard that Tim was supposed to have a more thematically appropriate name, but John Cleese forgot in the moment, improvised, and they all just went with it because it was better than the script. Also the ending is great, a literal cop-out, though we can tell that they're innocent, the murderer had a horse instead of using coconuts.
Great reaction! In terms of more essential British comedy films (besides the other 3 Python ones), I would suggest: The Ladykillers, Withnail and i, and 4 Lions 👌 You also need to see Blackadder and Father Ted (if you haven't already)
In interviews I have seen, Game of Thrones creators Dan and Dave have said how they were very, very aware of how close a lot of GoT gets to being Monty Python and they often had to dial things back to make sure they weren't crossing that line. Also, there's a scene in a Season 4 episode with a fun Monty Python easter egg...(I'll let you know after you've seen it.)
I really hope this becomes a regular routine. You gotta throw some classic comedy movies in the mix a couple times a month. I love it when you guys just get "silly" That's the great thing about the livestreams too. Look forward to some more classic comedies in the future. My favorite line from this movie is "I fart in your generally direction!"
This is in my top 3 comedies, along with Blazing Saddles and Airplane. Another great Monty Python film is Life of Brian. And more great comedies in the same style: Young Frankenstein, Top Secret, The Kentucky Fried Movie, The Naked Gun films, the Hot Shots films, History of the World Part 1, Scary Movie 1-4 (the first one is a spoof of Scream)
In an original draft for the film, they ended the movie by finding the grail in the Grail department at Harrods department store. This is, of course, because you can find anything at Harrod’s. But, because they were running out of money, they ended with a literal cop out.
This epic film was financed by some of the greatest musicians in rock history. George Harrison, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Genesis all chipped in to make this comedic masterpiece. 🐍 ✌🏼😎🇺🇸
No, they did. It was the only way they could afford any kind of budget. But it was very little.@@jimwiater2867 "A 2021 tweet by Eric Idle revealed that the film was financed by eight investors: Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, Holy Grail's co-producer Michael White, Heartaches (a cricket team founded by lyricist Tim Rice), and three record companies including Charisma Records"
When the Wizard (John Cleese) was asked his name, the answer was supposed to this ridiculously long and complicated name. John forgot his line, so that's why there is such a long pause, and he just says Tim. The rest of the group kept their cool, and they didn't have the funds for another take, so they kept it in.
This is my favorite comedy of all time. I first saw this during a Midnight Show theaters used to have in the 70's and 80's. Having no idea who Monty Python was we walked into this show ultra baked and I have never laughed so hard before or since, the whole theater was in tears. So random, so witty, so relevant, so freakin' hilarious. Loving the new setup and vibe, this was like hanging out with friends.
Oh man, I can't remember when I've laughed so much! I've seen dozens of these Holy Grail reactions and yours is absolutely delightful! From your musical laughter to Kevin the dog, who I swear didn't even blink for the first half of the movie, the whole thing was a treat. Keeper! Please tell me you also did The Life Of Brian!
Monty Python were the kings of absurdist comedy, from their sketch comedy TV show starting in the late 1960s to every one of the movies. Keep on watching! I love seeing people react to this movie, especially when it gets to the end, and everyone is like, "Uh, that's it? Seriously, is that it?"
I remember seeing this in jolly old England at the cinema back in 1981 (I'm old!). This is the most British of all British comedies, and it's brilliant!
Back when I was around 12 years old PBS had The Muppet Show, The Goodies, then Monty Python’s Flying Circus on Friday nights. Holy Grail came on afterwards one night and instantly became a favorite with all of my friends. We quoted the hell out of it every time we played D&D. I base alot of my reaction channel subscriptions on how they do with this movie. You two were great! Subscribed!
The animation was a trademark of their tv series "Monty Python's Flying Circus", even if you can only find separate sketches of it will be worth it, absolutely brilliant.
Fun fact: The duck in the witch-burning scene is a reference to the Medieval practice of "ducking", i.e. immersing an alleged witch in water. If she floated, she was a witch. If she sank, she was innocent. A lose-lose.
Witch huntings weren't really a thing during the medieval times and ducking stools are first mentioned in the 16th century. The medieval age only had cucking stools which were not to test witches or whatever, but to punish women for talking back and stuff like that. There was actually a test involving water to determine whether someone (again, nothing about witches) was guilty during the medieval times. But it just involved throwing someone into a flowing river and if that person made it out they were cleared. So the exact opposite of the later version where you had to die to be cleared. But tests like that were quite rare and not supported by the church or the nobles, because it was basically seen as forcing God to act to save innocent people. Which was seen as rather heretical.
fun fact, the writers of game of thrones were big python fans. They worked out languages high and low Valerian. When the guy on the castle walls insulted Daeynerys of Tatgaryan he actually said "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"
If you mean the monks, they're chanting “Pie Iesu Domine, dona eis requiem,” which means “Merciful (well, literally 'all-pitying') Lord Jesus, grant them rest.” It's from the “Dies irae” medieval Latin text which describes the Day of Judgement. The band Blind Guardian used that as intro for their Album "Follow the Blind" :D
Things you might have missed There were no credits at the end because they were all sacked in the beginning The knights were framed as the knight who killed the historian was on a real horse THere are 3 times in the movie that a women is beating a cat. And as I am sure someone has mentioned, the end is a total cop out Many other details but those are the ones most people don't think about.
Monty Python hit our shores in my teen years and between that series the first few seasons of SNL , Dave Allen at large and Benny Hill , me and my comedic minded friends had it made, I don’t think any of us answered our home phones without an exaggerated English accent until the 80s, thanks Y’all!
I watched this movie first run in the theaters. Me and my buddies were huge python fans. There were about 7 of us that went. It was great. We still quote this movie to this day.
Rarely, if ever, have I watched such fantastic, invested, hilarious reactions to my all-time favorite movie!! 😂😂 You guys did not let me down! I can't tell you how many times my friends and I quoted this movie, for years, and still do! Thank you for giving me such great laughs today!! 😊
Hey guys, if you want to see more comedies I would suggest Jojo Rabbit a great movie, After Hours (a Martin Scorsese dark comedy), Kung Fu Hustle, Blazing Saddles, Shaun Of The Dead if you haven't seen it since you said you'll be watching Hot Fuzz soon, My Cousin Vinny and An American Werewolf In London just to name a few.
In the opening scene that was a person wrapped in that wheel. It was called a Catherine Wheel or Breaking Wheel. As to the monks bonking themselves on the head with the boards. It is a nod to ancient orders of monks who would whip themselves bloody to atone for their sins or that suffering makes you stronger or some such shit.
I saw this when it first hit general release. My interpretation was that this film was a classic British murder mystery about a professor doing a documentary on location while the python team are making a film. The murderer is the only one with a horse (probably because he thought there were going to be horses) but even so, he frames the python guys who end up getting arrested. But that’s me trying to make sense of the absurd. 😂😂😂
You should really check out the rest of the Monty Python movies and Terry Gilliam's other movies too: Life of Brian (Monty Python) The Meaning of Life (Monty Python) (also Directed by Terry Gilliam) Time Bandits Brazil The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 12 Monkeys Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas The Brothers Grimm The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Heath Ledgers final and second best movie) The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
You guys could watch Leslie Nielsen movies, like Airplane, Naked Gun, Spy Hard, etc. He has a bunch. Adam Sandler has a ton of fun comedys, like Water Boy, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, etc. Also "Jane Austen's Mafia!" is one that many people haven't seen, it's kinda like Airplane but makes fun of mafia movies.
I do wonder if it's gonna take another 50 years with the film industry for them to claw their way back up to the sort of stuff they had in the 1970s. This is awesome :) Life of Brian from them now please :D
Terry Jones was an expert of medieval and ancient history. For example, the helmet Sir Bedevere wears - as silly at as looks like - is historically accurate!
A great reaction to one of the greatest comedies EVER (in my opinion). You MUST watch Life of Brian. Otherwise you are missing out of another Python Masterpiece. But I have a question for you both. How many of the lines from this movie have you dropped so far? For example "Tis but a scratch." I hope everyone has an amazing weekend & much love to all from here in GB
Is still by far my favorite movie of all time... i even went out of my way, to get an anniversary blueray of the movie that came in a castle box, with a attachable catapult on the back to fling 5 small rubber animal toys lmao. Its jus so good and always recommend this movie to everyone
Another vote for Life of Brian please! I see you've also done Hot Fuzz, so I'm off to watch your video of that now as it's one of the best "reaction" films out there - looking forward to seeing what you made of that :)
I love this movie, since I can remember, and i ❤ you guys are reacting to it 😀🇬🇧 I m sure plenty of people will recommend Monty pythons life of Brian which is well worth a watch, their meaning of life film is better suited to those who watched their original bbc tv series exam cope with the british eccentricities and weirdness!!
Monty python is a comedy troup of only 6 guys. before this movie they were famous through their skit show Monty Python’s Flying Circus. The rest of the characters in this movie that aren’t them are played by friends, family members, and acting students from a school one of them taught at.
I remember watching this for the first time I almost died laughing when the poor bastard hanging in the dungeon clapping along to the wedding dance party upstairs 😂❤
0:52 Bo Bo said "Ni" 11:08 the guy who says It's only a model is Terry Gilliam He's responsible for the model work and the cartoons. So he should know. 16:10 brave sir Robbin's coat of arms on the shield is a chicken
Y'all ever seen Monty Python's the Meaning of Life? Hands-down the craziest Month Python movie. Another recommendation if you guys like Holy Grail is the Naked Gun series, similar offbeat humor and energy in an American police movie setting.
Your outro, with the extraverted skeleton and "The Girl From Ipanema" playing, was the icing on the cake for a most excellent response! I fear it wasn't a good movie for Kevin, but otherwise it seemed to fire on all cylinders. Bravo!
For a movie made on a shoestring budget, mostly financed by rock stars, they managed to pull of an epic fucking piece of cinematic history Students of comical genius need to study this for the foreseeable future.
as a proud owner of "The album to the sound track of the trailer to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, executive edition" I can still recall this film nearly word for word.
Even though this movies was made on a shoe-string budget, I always liked the small finishing touches such as the Art Department put a big chicken on brave Sir Robin's shield as his emblem.
Hey guys, another great movie to watch is "Tom Jones". Funny as hell. British, from 1963, lossely based on a 1749 novel, and has nothing to do with the singer. Nominated for 10 and won four Academy Awards including Best PIcture. Also won two Golden Globes and three BAFTAs, including best picture from both.
The comedy troope Monty Python came about in a 1969-1974 British TV show "Monty Python's Flying Circus" which was rerun for many many years on late night American PBS Public Television throughout the 70's and '80s. The episodes were very much absurd sketches like the flying speeds of swallows: trying to get a refund for a dead parrot and the shopkeep trying to prove it is not dead, Vikings singing the virtues of Spam, crossdressing lumberjacks. After the show, they went on to make many movies separately or together!
Terry Jones (Sir Bedevere) was the co-director with Terry Gilliam (Patsy/the animator), and was a big scholar on medieval history. A lot of their sketches in this were based on some grain of truth (e.g. a group of pesants governing themselves, a religious order that would wander clobbering themselves in acts of piety, Sir Lancelot always charging in and slaughtering people indiscriminately). If you ever get curious, Jones did a series of documentaries on medival life in the mid-oughts and a few of them are on RUclips.
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Don't know if you noticed - they arrested the wrong people. The person that killed the historian is the only knight that was on a real horse.
Holy shit
Holy sh*t..... All these years I didn't realize............ 🙀
The only reason it was the only horse in the film was because there wasn't enough in the film budget to give everyone a horse and only enough to rent 1 horse for like, an hour.
@@falsnamae3511omg.....
All this time...
HOW!?!?
@@falsnamae3511also the reason there's no ending credits is because the entire staff responsible for them was sacked in the opening credits
The "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!" line is actually an insult: he's insulting the mother's virtue by insinuating promiscuity by likening her to an animal like the hamster that breeds rapidly, and elderberries were used to make wine and other alcohol, so he's calling the father a drunk as well. It's actually rather clever haha
Clever, Of course its clever, They are the masters of clever. Every minute of this screams clever. You silly boy.
@@dpall38 I shall leave, before you taunt me a second time-a!
@@KrazzeeKane stop that, stop that, that’s much too silly!
And hamsters have an outrageously high tolerance for alcohol due to their tendency to eat very fermented seeds. So, the mother is a promiscuous alcoholic, and the father likely shacked up with her while drunk.
@@dpall38”Every minute of this screams clever.”
My brain: “I faaart in your general direction.”
(I actually agree but I couldn’t help but think of that line lmao.)
My 15yo son loves this movie so much, “your father smelled of elderberries” is his rebuttal to everything. I’m so proud. ❤️❤️
Smack him if he says the complete line.
The references were meant as insults, "your mother was a hamster", was calling Arthurs mother a whore, and "your father smelt of elderberries" meant that his father was a drunk.
@@craigwhip I actually didn’t know that, but my son says it as an insult or a comeback. I’m not bothered really at least he isn’t swearing . Lol
@@trespasserswill7052 he say it’s just a flesh wound and then act out the black knight part. 😂😂
He also loves to say “I fart in your general direction.” 😂😂
Entering the world of Monty Python is always a rite of passage.
Congrats to you both.
He's already seen this... and he's spoiling half the humor for her while trying to beat them to punch lines or inserting his own 'humor'.
Im really hoping for RohinHood Men in Tights too
The guys were notorious for not ending skits so with this being their first movie,they literally ended it with a "cop out".
Also, the murderer couldn't have been any of the knights because he was the only one on a real horse.
and the life of brian left you hanging
The intermission thing is because back in the day, they used to have a sizable break in the middle of the movie so people could get more snacks, visit the restroom etc. So they were actually trolling movie goers into standing up and then having to run back to their seats. Same with the subtitles.
The capital of Assyria tended to change. It had six different capital cities across its history.
One of the funniest things to me is the fact that they used coconuts because they couldn’t afford horses for the movie, but the guy that killed the historian was on a horse 😂
Which is how we know it wasn't one of Arthur's gang. By the way, no matter how much you slo-mo that scene, you cannot see what coat of arms he's wearing.
Urban myth. The coconut-clopping serfs acting as horses was just a silly idea dreamt up by Michael Palin during the early "ideas" stage... long before the script was finalised and way, way before they knew what budget they had to work with.
The coconuts was because of money as they had enough for one horse and so used it to set up the cop-out ending. The animated parts is also because they ran out of money and still had scenes to do, so they went with cartoons.
@@Excanda they always did cartoons on the show and in the other movies as well
@@blueshit199 it saves money, but I think that Holy Grail the first Monty Python movie is so the other two movies just use the same format somewhat.
Nothing makes me happier than seeing my favorite reactors experience this masterpiece for the first time! Monty Python's Life of Brian is, if anything, even better, so highly recommend that too!!
I prefer "The Meaning of Life",
but both are funny AF... 🤘🤣
If you have not seen their TV shows then I would also recommend "And Now For Something Completely Different", which is a collection of the best sketches from their TV series re-shot for the film
ALBATROSS!... LOL.
If you've seen the show, you might remember that. Or not.
🤘😁
@@mojoriot2293 Gannet Ripple
I prefer this movie to Life of Brian, but that movie is also top tier. It's all subjective anyways.
You were correct that all the Monty Python guys played multiple characters. John Cleese was Lancelot, the Black Knight, the taunting French guy, the Wizard Tim, the guy the witch turned into a Newt (he got better) and a few more
Also, Michael Palin was Dennis the peasant, Sir Galahad, the Swamp Castle king, and one or two others.
Eric Idle was Sir Robin, the corpse gatherer, one of the Swamp Castle guards, Roger the Shrubber, Brother Maynard.
Terry Jones was Sir Bedevere and Alice...I mean Herbert. He also co-directed the film.
Terry Gilliam did the animations, and also played Patsy with the coconuts, and also co-directed
And Graham Chapman was Arthur and the hiccuping guard.
Also the (Sir Robin's) minstrel who sings was played by the wonderful Neil Innes, who wrote the songs for the film. We lost him a few years ago but I remember a TV programme here in the UK called The Innes Book of Records, which was a vehicle for his whimsical genius. Very talented man.
@@macronencer I discovered Jake Thackray via The Innes Book Of Records :)
@@quasarsphereTerry Jones wasn't Herbert/Alice. He was the leader of the Knights who say Ni, one of the three headed monster, Sir Bedivere and the female peasant collecting lovely filth.
John Cleese did NOT play the wizard Tim; he played the enchanter Tim 😂🤣😂
This came out when I was 15. Very few Americans had heard of Monty Python then. I went to see it at the drive in with my brother and his wife. Of course, we were nicely toasted. We all missed so much of it, laughing and crying, that we went back the next night even though we were sore from it. Holy Grail was so popular that many local PBS stations started running the BBC series Monty Python's Flying Circus. Which many teenagers and young adults followed religiously. I'm in my mid 60s now and still love them.❤❤❤
I'm French , and the asshole on the wall is exactly like i imagine everyone see us, that's just perfect lmao
More Python, please! The meaning of life and the Life of Brian.
Monty Python's Flying Circus was on PBS at 10pm on Sunday nights in the NYC area starting around 1970. It was cutting edge humor way before it's time. Sort of an early version of SNL. But all short skits. The whole cast from the show was in this movie. I was 10 at the time and much too young to be watching it, but my MUCH older brother, he was about 28, would have me over his place to watch it with him and his wife. And I was hooked. So when this came out 5 years later of course my friends and I ran to see it. The movie is pretty much a much longer, one themed, version of the show. So we were not disappointed.
The genius of this movie is that many of the historical things depicted as sill in this movie actually happened. During plague times, the had dudes with carts collecting the dead. Of course you know the witch stuffed happened. And the guy flogging himself was an actual religious cult that was part of Christianity. They were called self-flagellation and they did it to purge their sins. It was a very popular movement at one time.
The intermittent beating of cats in the film also goes back to the plague times where it was thought they brought the disease, not knowing it was rats (fleas). Killing the cats, that would have reduced the rat population just made the plague spread more.
I loved this film and can't wait for your reaction to Life of Brian.
Glad you enjoyed it. "Life of Brian" and "The Meaning of Life" are just as good if not better.
Life of Brian was so ahead of its time, that I STILL think people are not ready for it lol
There are some movies that are just absolute cornerstones of their genre. For comedies, this is the first that comes to mind, followed by Airplane! and Tropic Thunder.
I'm absolutely convinced that at some point I saw a cut of the scene where a whole army appears out of nowhere and in this cut, after the army forms up Bedevere gives Arthur a puzzled look. Arthur shrugs and says "Well, I am a King, you know!" One day I will prove it's existence...
Yeah! Why isn't that scene in there? We always get gypped!
You sure this isn't a case of the Mandela effect?
I think that's the scene where Bedevere asks how he knows so much about swallows, and Arthur replies "well you have to know these things as king, you know"
The film was so low budget they didn't even have the money to hire a rabbit for that scene. They knocked on some doors at a nearby town, and borrowed a little girl's pet rabbit. They promised to bring the rabbit back and did, but returned it covered in fake blood because they couldn't get the dye out!
Here, have a little more trivia:
John Young played two characters (both of whom get killed).
He was the old man who John Cleese carried out to the cart who's "not quite dead" and the famous historian killed by the knight riding _the only horse_ in the movie.
The photograph of Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Film was that of Michael Palin's son, William.
The page turning hand in the first part of the movie belonged to Maggie Weston, Terry Gilliam's wife. Terry was the gorilla hand that pulled the other one away from the book.
They've been married since 1973.
Neil Innes composed many songs used by the Pythons and appeared in this movie as both Robin's lead minstrel and as the serf who got crushed by the Trojan Rabbit.
This movie has been making me laugh for decades. And I am always so happy when people discover it and enjoy it the way it deserves to be enjoyed.
maybe a small detail but Patsy (the coconut guy servant) is played by Terry Gilliam - oscar nominated director, maker of such classics as "Brazil", "Tideland", "Fear and loathing in Las Vegas" and others
A much needed palette cleanser after yesterday lol
I was going to correct you and write "palate cleanser", but I guess turpentine could wipe a brain clean of the Red Wedding. 😂
I always love at the end to see how long reactors sit through the black screen with music playing, and that is how you troll the entire planet for an hour n half
Hands down favorite movie of all time! And it even gets better every time I watch it!!
I've heard that Tim was supposed to have a more thematically appropriate name, but John Cleese forgot in the moment, improvised, and they all just went with it because it was better than the script.
Also the ending is great, a literal cop-out, though we can tell that they're innocent, the murderer had a horse instead of using coconuts.
Great reaction!
In terms of more essential British comedy films (besides the other 3 Python ones), I would suggest: The Ladykillers, Withnail and i, and 4 Lions 👌
You also need to see Blackadder and Father Ted (if you haven't already)
And remember The Ladykillers has to be the 1955 original, not the 2004 remake (what were they thinking?).
To your list, I would include, Keeping Mum, Saving Grace and The Infidel.
"It's just a flesh wound" 😂😂😂😂 This movie is too damn good lmao I'm glad Bridget liked it
In interviews I have seen, Game of Thrones creators Dan and Dave have said how they were very, very aware of how close a lot of GoT gets to being Monty Python and they often had to dial things back to make sure they weren't crossing that line.
Also, there's a scene in a Season 4 episode with a fun Monty Python easter egg...(I'll let you know after you've seen it.)
I love the way "It's just a flesh wound" has become shorthand for "I'm fine, and I'm in complete denial about how bad my situation is!"
I really hope this becomes a regular routine. You gotta throw some classic comedy movies in the mix a couple times a month. I love it when you guys just get "silly" That's the great thing about the livestreams too. Look forward to some more classic comedies in the future. My favorite line from this movie is "I fart in your generally direction!"
My husband and I have been quoting this movie for 22 years since he had me watch it! LOL! Love it!
Can't wait to watch this after work, this movie is a classic! The Life of Brian is equally good, would love to see you two watch that one as well.
Bridette’s witchy laugh and Cody’s giggle makes me so happy.
This is in my top 3 comedies, along with Blazing Saddles and Airplane. Another great Monty Python film is Life of Brian. And more great comedies in the same style: Young Frankenstein, Top Secret, The Kentucky Fried Movie, The Naked Gun films, the Hot Shots films, History of the World Part 1, Scary Movie 1-4 (the first one is a spoof of Scream)
would love to see your guys reaction to Kentucky Fried Movie
In an original draft for the film, they ended the movie by finding the grail in the Grail department at Harrods department store. This is, of course, because you can find anything at Harrod’s. But, because they were running out of money, they ended with a literal cop out.
This epic film was financed by some of the greatest musicians in rock history. George Harrison, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Genesis all chipped in to make this comedic masterpiece. 🐍
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And Elton John
That was life of Brian
They had no money for this
No, they did. It was the only way they could afford any kind of budget. But it was very little.@@jimwiater2867 "A 2021 tweet by Eric Idle revealed that the film was financed by eight investors: Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, Holy Grail's co-producer Michael White, Heartaches (a cricket team founded by lyricist Tim Rice), and three record companies including Charisma Records"
When the guy gets shot by the arrow and says "message for you sir" is my text alert
Well now you gotta watch Monty Python - Life of Brian
When the Wizard (John Cleese) was asked his name, the answer was supposed to this ridiculously long and complicated name. John forgot his line, so that's why there is such a long pause, and he just says Tim. The rest of the group kept their cool, and they didn't have the funds for another take, so they kept it in.
"Greetings. Tim the Enchanter."
This is my favorite comedy of all time.
I first saw this during a Midnight Show theaters used to have in the 70's and 80's. Having no idea who Monty Python was we walked into this show ultra baked and I have never laughed so hard before or since, the whole theater was in tears. So random, so witty, so relevant, so freakin' hilarious.
Loving the new setup and vibe, this was like hanging out with friends.
Oh man, I can't remember when I've laughed so much! I've seen dozens of these Holy Grail reactions and yours is absolutely delightful! From your musical laughter to Kevin the dog, who I swear didn't even blink for the first half of the movie, the whole thing was a treat. Keeper! Please tell me you also did The Life Of Brian!
Bridegeco, Kevin, and Monty Python… thank you! Thank you for starting my Thursday on the best possible foot. 😆😂🤣
you guys should totally react to Monty python's the life of brian as well as the flying circus
33:15 The ending of the movie was the ultimate "Cop out"
They actually did have a man with a cart calling bring out your dead during the plague. Great reaction!!
Monty Python were the kings of absurdist comedy, from their sketch comedy TV show starting in the late 1960s to every one of the movies. Keep on watching! I love seeing people react to this movie, especially when it gets to the end, and everyone is like, "Uh, that's it? Seriously, is that it?"
Butt trumpets were a real thing drawn in the the margins of mideaval texts.
I remember seeing this in jolly old England at the cinema back in 1981 (I'm old!). This is the most British of all British comedies, and it's brilliant!
The dichotomy of releasing this the day after The Red Wedding is why I love you guys.
Back when I was around 12 years old PBS had The Muppet Show, The Goodies, then Monty Python’s Flying Circus on Friday nights. Holy Grail came on afterwards one night and instantly became a favorite with all of my friends. We quoted the hell out of it every time we played D&D. I base alot of my reaction channel subscriptions on how they do with this movie. You two were great! Subscribed!
The animation was a trademark of their tv series "Monty Python's Flying Circus", even if you can only find separate sketches of it will be worth it, absolutely brilliant.
Fun fact: The duck in the witch-burning scene is a reference to the Medieval practice of "ducking", i.e. immersing an alleged witch in water. If she floated, she was a witch. If she sank, she was innocent. A lose-lose.
Witch huntings weren't really a thing during the medieval times and ducking stools are first mentioned in the 16th century. The medieval age only had cucking stools which were not to test witches or whatever, but to punish women for talking back and stuff like that. There was actually a test involving water to determine whether someone (again, nothing about witches) was guilty during the medieval times. But it just involved throwing someone into a flowing river and if that person made it out they were cleared. So the exact opposite of the later version where you had to die to be cleared. But tests like that were quite rare and not supported by the church or the nobles, because it was basically seen as forcing God to act to save innocent people. Which was seen as rather heretical.
Monty proves a point with every counter point on matters both known and not known!making sense of their movies is a lost cause but very much liked!!
fun fact, the writers of game of thrones were big python fans. They worked out languages high and low Valerian. When the guy on the castle walls insulted Daeynerys of Tatgaryan he actually said "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"
If you mean the monks, they're chanting “Pie Iesu Domine, dona eis requiem,” which means “Merciful (well, literally 'all-pitying') Lord Jesus, grant them rest.” It's from the “Dies irae” medieval Latin text which describes the Day of Judgement.
The band Blind Guardian used that as intro for their Album "Follow the Blind" :D
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There were no credits at the end because they were all sacked in the beginning
The knights were framed as the knight who killed the historian was on a real horse
THere are 3 times in the movie that a women is beating a cat.
And as I am sure someone has mentioned, the end is a total cop out
Many other details but those are the ones most people don't think about.
Monty Python hit our shores in my teen years and between that series the first few seasons of SNL , Dave Allen at large and Benny Hill , me and my comedic minded friends had it made, I don’t think any of us answered our home phones without an exaggerated English accent until the 80s, thanks Y’all!
"It's just a flesh wound."
One of the most quoted lines in my house, I swear.
I watched this movie first run in the theaters. Me and my buddies were huge python fans. There were about 7 of us that went. It was great. We still quote this movie to this day.
I love how the entire time your dog is like, "What are these humans laughing about?"
instant like n favorite for kevin alone; seeing yall experience this masterpiece is just a huge bonus 🤣
So glad you guys reacted to this. It’s one of my all time favorite movies
This movie is a Christmas special in my house. My mum would always play it. So happy to see people react to it 🥰
Rarely, if ever, have I watched such fantastic, invested, hilarious reactions to my all-time favorite movie!! 😂😂 You guys did not let me down! I can't tell you how many times my friends and I quoted this movie, for years, and still do! Thank you for giving me such great laughs today!! 😊
OMG watching Cody giggling at this movie restored my dead soul :D
Hey guys, if you want to see more comedies I would suggest Jojo Rabbit a great movie, After Hours (a Martin Scorsese dark comedy), Kung Fu Hustle, Blazing Saddles, Shaun Of The Dead if you haven't seen it since you said you'll be watching Hot Fuzz soon, My Cousin Vinny and An American Werewolf In London just to name a few.
In the opening scene that was a person wrapped in that wheel. It was called a Catherine Wheel or Breaking Wheel.
As to the monks bonking themselves on the head with the boards. It is a nod to ancient orders of monks who would whip themselves bloody to atone for their sins or that suffering makes you stronger or some such shit.
Finally, someone reacts to the 'there was much rejoicing' gag. So many people just flat out miss that one. Fair play to you both
I saw this when it first hit general release. My interpretation was that this film was a classic British murder mystery about a professor doing a documentary on location while the python team are making a film. The murderer is the only one with a horse (probably because he thought there were going to be horses) but even so, he frames the python guys who end up getting arrested. But that’s me trying to make sense of the absurd. 😂😂😂
You should really check out the rest of the Monty Python movies and Terry Gilliam's other movies too:
Life of Brian (Monty Python)
The Meaning of Life (Monty Python) (also Directed by Terry Gilliam)
Time Bandits
Brazil
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
12 Monkeys
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Brothers Grimm
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Heath Ledgers final and second best movie)
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Stumbled over Dr. Panassus by accident and it was surprisingly good. Surely not for everyone but i really enjoyed it
"Did they just phonetically pronounce knights?" Holy shit, i never could figure out that joke!!!
You guys could watch Leslie Nielsen movies, like Airplane, Naked Gun, Spy Hard, etc. He has a bunch. Adam Sandler has a ton of fun comedys, like Water Boy, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, etc. Also "Jane Austen's Mafia!" is one that many people haven't seen, it's kinda like Airplane but makes fun of mafia movies.
You guys should watch Young Frankenstein for an amazing comedy.
You guys have the chillest dog ever :)
I do wonder if it's gonna take another 50 years with the film industry for them to claw their way back up to the sort of stuff they had in the 1970s. This is awesome :) Life of Brian from them now please :D
Terry Jones was an expert of medieval and ancient history. For example, the helmet Sir Bedevere wears - as silly at as looks like - is historically accurate!
It's a joy watching people enjoy python for the first time
A great reaction to one of the greatest comedies EVER (in my opinion). You MUST watch Life of Brian. Otherwise you are missing out of another Python Masterpiece.
But I have a question for you both. How many of the lines from this movie have you dropped so far? For example "Tis but a scratch."
I hope everyone has an amazing weekend & much love to all from here in GB
"What's so special about the Cheese Makers?"
One of my top 5 movies. Went to Scotland last year and visited Doune castle. It was magical ❤
I love seeing these 1st time reactions to the Monty python films so funny
As for the ending it's a literal cop-out
Is still by far my favorite movie of all time...
i even went out of my way, to get an anniversary blueray of the movie that came in a castle box, with a attachable catapult on the back to fling 5 small rubber animal toys lmao.
Its jus so good and always recommend this movie to everyone
Another vote for Life of Brian please! I see you've also done Hot Fuzz, so I'm off to watch your video of that now as it's one of the best "reaction" films out there - looking forward to seeing what you made of that :)
I love this movie, since I can remember, and i ❤ you guys are reacting to it 😀🇬🇧 I m sure plenty of people will recommend Monty pythons life of Brian which is well worth a watch, their meaning of life film is better suited to those who watched their original bbc tv series exam cope with the british eccentricities and weirdness!!
Monty python is a comedy troup of only 6 guys. before this movie they were famous through their skit show Monty Python’s Flying Circus. The rest of the characters in this movie that aren’t them are played by friends, family members, and acting students from a school one of them taught at.
Lol! When I worked nightshift and had to collect test boards, I would roll around a cart and yell " bring out your dead" 😂
I remember watching this for the first time I almost died laughing when the poor bastard hanging in the dungeon clapping along to the wedding dance party upstairs 😂❤
0:52 Bo Bo said "Ni"
11:08 the guy who says It's only a model is Terry Gilliam He's responsible for the model work and the cartoons. So he should know.
16:10 brave sir Robbin's coat of arms on the shield is a chicken
One of the funniest movies! I was about 20 when this was released. We didn't call it meta-humor though. We just called it humor.
Y'all ever seen Monty Python's the Meaning of Life? Hands-down the craziest Month Python movie. Another recommendation if you guys like Holy Grail is the Naked Gun series, similar offbeat humor and energy in an American police movie setting.
Your outro, with the extraverted skeleton and "The Girl From Ipanema" playing, was the icing on the cake for a most excellent response! I fear it wasn't a good movie for Kevin, but otherwise it seemed to fire on all cylinders. Bravo!
"There's the old man from scene 24" is one of my favorite lines in cinematic history.
You missed a funny moment…
“I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION!”
For a movie made on a shoestring budget, mostly financed by rock stars, they managed to pull of an epic fucking piece of cinematic history Students of comical genius need to study this for the foreseeable future.
I'm a cat person but Kevin seems like a real cool dude! also thank you lovely people for reacting to this, you are awesome, like Tim
as a proud owner of "The album to the sound track of the trailer to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, executive edition" I can still recall this film nearly word for word.
Even though this movies was made on a shoe-string budget, I always liked the small finishing touches such as the Art Department put a big chicken on brave Sir Robin's shield as his emblem.
Hey guys, another great movie to watch is "Tom Jones". Funny as hell. British, from 1963, lossely based on a 1749 novel, and has nothing to do with the singer. Nominated for 10 and won four Academy Awards including Best PIcture. Also won two Golden Globes and three BAFTAs, including best picture from both.
the pair of you giggling is the best part of these reactions. you guys kill me.
The comedy troope Monty Python came about in a 1969-1974 British TV show "Monty Python's Flying Circus" which was rerun for many many years on late night American PBS Public Television throughout the 70's and '80s. The episodes were very much absurd sketches like the flying speeds of swallows: trying to get a refund for a dead parrot and the shopkeep trying to prove it is not dead, Vikings singing the virtues of Spam, crossdressing lumberjacks. After the show, they went on to make many movies separately or together!
Terry Jones (Sir Bedevere) was the co-director with Terry Gilliam (Patsy/the animator), and was a big scholar on medieval history. A lot of their sketches in this were based on some grain of truth (e.g. a group of pesants governing themselves, a religious order that would wander clobbering themselves in acts of piety, Sir Lancelot always charging in and slaughtering people indiscriminately).
If you ever get curious, Jones did a series of documentaries on medival life in the mid-oughts and a few of them are on RUclips.