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Monty Python's
The Meaning of Life (1983)
  
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DIRECTOR |
Terry
Jones |
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PRODUCER |
John
Goldstone |
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SCREENWRITER |
Graham
Chapman
John Cleese
Terry Gilliam
Eric Idle
Terry Jones
Michael Palin |
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COUNTRY
Storbritannia |
GENRE
Komedie |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
Monty
Pythons meningen med livet |
RUNNING TIME
103 minutes |
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Cast
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RATING |
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Graham
Chapman
John Cleese
Terry Gilliam
Eric Idle
Terry Jones
Michael Palin |
Review
The
Meaning of Life is the final of the Monty Pythoners joint ventures,
and arguably also the most tasteless and graphically overdone. It's a
narratively incoherent quasi-philosophy on the meaning of life
(ostensibly). But the story obviously is never the point, and neither is
retaining a logical plot thread through this collection of skits – a
plot thread which was the basis for Life of Brian's success, but
which unfortunately is absent here. The result is an uneven and at times
ill-focused attempt at going over the top. The Python crew have never
been as skilled at writing stories as they have been at creating types, and in
The Meaning of Life, this is more apparent than ever. There are
some
unparalleled peaks ("marching up and down a square" and "Mr. Creosote",
to name a few), but the totality is missing, both when it comes to contents and humour.
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