Excuse the awkward music at the very end 😬 The copyright gods would have smitten us otherwise, so we chose to replace the audio with silly music from the KZread audio library. Thanks for watching!!

@liambridgeman4529

Жыл бұрын

Life of Brian is best monty python movie funny as hell I recommend it

@anunnacy

Жыл бұрын

This was one of the best reactions to this movie I've seen so far. 😄 Cool to see that you've had such a fun time, because that's what this movie is all about. It's just pure comedy, silly situations and ideas and a lot of laughs. Entertaining form beginning to end. Also great to spontaneously watch with some friends (and optionally some beers :P ) on a chill movie night, especially if they don't know what's coming. 😁

@brabbit736

Жыл бұрын

*smote Sorry, I had to

@NiceDudeMovieNight

Жыл бұрын

@@brabbit736 Ya know, I actually googled it while writing this and saw really mixed results 😂 y'all get the picture either way

@chrisleebowers

Жыл бұрын

"This movie is shot really well!" You should see what directors Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones can do with a budget. Monty Python goes on to make several more movies, and there's a scene in the next one that cost as much as this whole movie. But it's when the Terry's came to Hollywood when they started creating their most iconic and epic work. Terry Jones directed the hysterical "Erik The Viking," with Tim Robbins and various Python members. Terry Gilliam's "Dream Trilogy" will melt your brain. "Time Bandits" "Brazil" and "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" is full of Pythonesque humor but will explode your mind with their brilliant visuals. He went on to make the popular hits "12 Monkeys" "The Fisher King" and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."

The crazy thing is the guy who killed the historian was on horseback. The Knights of the Round Table were using coconuts. Meaning an outside party framed them.

@megatrollificus

Жыл бұрын

All these years and I never thought of that!

@jessicacaron5084

Жыл бұрын

Wait, WHAT

@deathkorpstrooper8228

Жыл бұрын

It was those damn French, I tell ya!!

@celicynd

Жыл бұрын

I've watched this movie countless times since I was a teen... I can practically quote the entire movie. This comment literally had me awestruck that I'd never noticed that and I stared at it for five minutes.

@kingdom1682

Жыл бұрын

Great observation

Some of the best jokes in this movie were because they couldn’t get the budget to do what they wanted to do.

@jessharvell1022

Жыл бұрын

i also love they decided to make it as grimy and gross as the real middle ages since they didn't have the budget to do a more traditional arthurian movie look

@danadnauseam

Жыл бұрын

They published the budget. It totaled about 250,000 pounds.

@ianloeb1672

Жыл бұрын

The best one in my opinion being the would have been final battle

@HyTricksyy

Жыл бұрын

Making the whole film basically a LARP session is on point then.

@scottmantooth8785

Жыл бұрын

@@danadnauseam *and funded or backed by some pretty well known bands at the time which included Pink Floyd*

I'm so old, I saw this in the theatre, on it's first run. The audience were in hysterics. It messed with the audience, because this was a time when movies actually had intermissions, so that intermission break really did have people getting up to go to the toilet, then seconds later hurrying back their seats, because the movie had started again. Happy times.

@Sir_TophamHatt

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out, because that joke is kind of ruined by the modern day experience of watching the film on a streaming service, where you can see the whole runtime at any point so you know the movie is almost over when the fake “intermission” screen comes up.

@thewinterprince1731

Жыл бұрын

Man, I wish I could have been there. XD

@SebHaarfagre

Жыл бұрын

That's funny 😂😂 I'm past 30 now but I've never experienced an intermission or knew about it like you explain

@StephLillibet

11 ай бұрын

The joys of the intermission, having the ice cream lady or man enter, you could even buy cigarettes!! We nicknamed our local cinema the flea pit and it was a hole but it was our hole, sadly they bulldozed it to build a co op funeral place! The pa pa pa's we all used to sing when the movie started brings happy memories!!

@billedefoudre

11 ай бұрын

I was born just a bit too late to see such legendary masterpiece in theaters, that must have been so crazy xD

So, some of the weird things explained about the movie: -The police arresting them at the end is a running Monty Python gag from Flying Circus. A lot of their sketches abruptly ended with the police arresting everyone for being “too silly” - The black screen at the end is a relic of its theatrical run. Since all the credits are at the beginning, the black screen and music are at the end for when they turn up the theatre lights and everyone leaves.

@walfip_

8 ай бұрын

Isn't the black screen there because the people responsible for credits were fired?

@zm_art

8 ай бұрын

@@walfip_ also a valid reason lol

@BogOwl

6 ай бұрын

It was a cop-out!

@benjamminraps1030

6 ай бұрын

Also should be pointed out here.. an African and European Swallow.. are the same bird at different points in their seasonal migration.

@kevinyoung3499

Ай бұрын

You should definitely watch The Life of Brian. Epic

The ending is literally a “Cop Out”. In their TV show they would often not have an ending for their sketches so they would have the police barge in to end the sketch. Also, King Arthur and his knights couldn’t have been the one to kill the historian because the knight who killed him was on horseback.

@justinjacobs1501

Жыл бұрын

Right? It's such a meta way to end the movie

@SadPeterPan1977

Жыл бұрын

Also, the screen is just black at the end because all the people who did the credits got sacked... 😂

@brianmcgarry1632

Жыл бұрын

@@SadPeterPan1977 of course 🤣🤣🤣

@wolfkniteX

Жыл бұрын

Literally the ONLY horse that was in the film and only because they could only afford to rent it for like, an hour. That's literally the whole reason why the other knights didn't have horses, there wasn't enough in the budget. XD

@Shadx27

Жыл бұрын

@@philrob1978 Then why did the witch admit "It's a fair cop."

So a few points on the jokes. The reason they didn't have horses is because they couldn't afford to buy and use horses for any of the shots, thus the whole thing with coconuts. The reason the sorcerer is called Tim is because Cleese was supposed to say this really long and elaborate name, but on the day of the shoot, he forgot his line and instead said the Tim line, and everyone just rolled with it as they couldn't afford to re-shoot the scenes due to the pyro taking up so much budget (and they didn't have any spare film for the camera) The ending, where they all get arrested, is quite literally a "cop out" ending. And finally, the reason the screen is just black at the end of the movie... is because the people responsible for the credits were all fired at the start of the movie! XD

@ImadSul12

Жыл бұрын

Interesting information, thank you.

@BYERE

Жыл бұрын

@@ImadSul12 You're welcome. Funnily enough, that last one... I never actually knew about it until about a month ago, despite having watched the movie loads of times throughout my life. It never clicked until I saw someone reviewing it recently, and they pointed out the joke that there's no credits because those people were fired at the start of the movie XD

@grife3000

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure they left the "Tim" line in there because it was just funnier.

@Chasmodius

Жыл бұрын

According to surviving scripts, "Tim" was always the enchanter's name. Cleese has publicly stated that they didn't improvise.

@jonaathansimons7938

Жыл бұрын

@@BYERE ...don't forget that those responsible for the sacking have been sacked & received nasti moose bites...from Ralph the wonder llama😁

The part where he's running but not getting closer, only to suddenly be within striking range and start stabbing the guards, "haHA!!" Gets me every time

@SodiumSyndicate

Жыл бұрын

The first time I saw that scene, I laughed so hard & so long repeating it over & over again, I couldn't breathe & I thought I was actually going to die. Never laughed like that again.

@faulkgough1768

Жыл бұрын

And the poofter guard just being like "...Hey!?"

@tammyknoll1496

11 ай бұрын

For me it's the other guard's half-hearted "Hey!"

@devinkarnes9735

10 ай бұрын

Everytime

@Mintylight

9 ай бұрын

That's the greatest joke in the whole movie for me. I can watch it however many times and still it makes me laugh every single time. The timing and music is just impeccable.

"I fart in your general direction" IS one of the hardest lines in a movie

@lemonielala3080

6 ай бұрын

"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries" which comes right after it is also perfection 😗👌

@Mulukkis

2 ай бұрын

My favorite is the peasant rant: "You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."

I think the weirdest thing about the entire movie is that they were randomly accurate to history in some points. The flagellants, the animal lobbing, it’s so random and honestly shows how intelligent the writers are beyond just jokes.

@TheMindofRa

Жыл бұрын

I know a guy who had to do a paper in college pointing out all the references to the OG tales.

@noelienoelie8425

Жыл бұрын

It's even deeper. Yes extremely intelligent but also in the know.

@NiceDudeMovieNight

Жыл бұрын

It's crazy that so much amount of research was put into this. What an amazing gift of a movie 😂

@hakonsgaming535

Жыл бұрын

it wasn't random at all, it was very intentional, there's tons of stuff in there that are highly obscure refferences that you wouldn't notice unless you were a historian or extremely well read on the subject matter.

@jean-paulaudette9246

Жыл бұрын

This has been called the most accurate film representation of the arms, arrnor, and clothing of the period, as well. These guys really did know their stuff.

For non-Python fans, you guys honestly got it.

@MatchTerm

Жыл бұрын

If you know what I mean, ya know, ya know, say no more?

@Oliviux78

Жыл бұрын

They didn’t get the riding the horses with the coconut sounds where it’s supposed to sound like someone riding a horse. They were taking it too seriously and saying that they looked silly. That was the point 😂

@PZMaTTy

Жыл бұрын

I prefer Javascript but this is gooood

@Erik-ou3tl

Жыл бұрын

@@MatchTerm nudge nudge, wink wink

@mikejankowski6321

Жыл бұрын

@@PZMaTTy It's not too BASIC for you?

i once interned at a funeral home (long story lol) but the employees always quoted the “bring out yer dead” part from this movie and it killed me every time😭

@WingZero172

11 ай бұрын

That's one way to liven things up around a funeral home.

@akmal94ibrahim

9 ай бұрын

​@@WingZero172ba dum tss

@WeerdMunkee

7 ай бұрын

That's so darkly humorous, yet poignant? 😆

@jesicad.685

7 ай бұрын

I used to transport patients around the hospital and sometimes that included bringing bodies to the morgue. The first step was going down to the basement and getting a special gurney nicknamed the "Cadillac". I never said it out loud, but it was impossible not to think about Monty Python when I was pushing that thing to the deceased patient's room...

@logandarklighter

7 ай бұрын

Putting the FUN back in funeral! 😂

One note on the Tale of Sir Lancelot: For the repeated shots of Lancelot running in from the distance, he wasn't running in place or getting farther away; they just kept replaying the same footage of him running over and over. Incidentally, one of my favorite moments in the movie lol

@Chapps1941

8 ай бұрын

"Lets not worry about who killed who ..."

@schnubbel76

6 ай бұрын

I love how you think this needs actually to be explained, as if every human being on earth is stupid beyond belief

@DavidEllis94

6 ай бұрын

@@schnubbel76 I was explaining it because they seemed to be confused by whether or not he was actually supposed to be getting closer.

@schnubbel76

6 ай бұрын

@@DavidEllis94 Not sure about that. They cant be that naive.

@DavidEllis94

6 ай бұрын

@@schnubbel76 At least, that's certainly the impression I got, if I'm remembering correctly. I don't generally assume that scene needs explaining, mind you, so something had to make me think someone wasn't getting it lol

I love how the joke of the horse coconuts stemed from the fact that they actually couldn't afford horses

@shornoMALONEY

6 ай бұрын

yeah apparently the pyrotechnics scene was too expensive so they ditched the horses. Legendary decision!

@maulvimuhammad

6 ай бұрын

but they did afford a horse in the historian death scene

@maddieS117

6 ай бұрын

​@@maulvimuhammadTo be fair, being able to afford just one horse is different from being able to afford five

@nugget3687

5 ай бұрын

​​@@maddieS117not to mention time is often a big factor too, you can only rent a horse for so many days with so much money

@stewartmackay

5 ай бұрын

It didn't.

When I was in high school my school did a production of Spamalot (this movie but with musical numbers and a few more characters). Right after the scene where Arthur fought The Black Knight the kid playing the latter looked down at what was left of his body and improvised the line “I wonder if Obamacare covers this.” I’ve never heard an audience laugh that hard 😂

@SirFooplesTheThird

Жыл бұрын

That's fuckjng funny LMAO

@scottmantooth8785

Жыл бұрын

*brilliant*

@jeremytung1632

Жыл бұрын

I think even the pythons would have been proud of that one.

@BananaHoovyJ.Rabbit

Жыл бұрын

This sounds like a r/thathappened You're telling me an ENTIRE AUDIENCE went berserk over a sub-par joke?

@Serai3

Жыл бұрын

@@BananaHoovyJ.Rabbit Translation: I have nothing better to do than krap all over someone's comment for no reason.

I'm super glad you guys enjoyed this. A lot of people complain about the ending but I think it's perfect. I always interpreted the ending as revealing that the entire film takes place in modern day by a large LARPing crew that's way too into their roles.

@Nabekukka

Жыл бұрын

It's a cop out.

@ThePiscesmMended

Жыл бұрын

@@Nabekukka some might say "a fair cop"

@isaacbruner65

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure it's been said that they wanted to do a battle scene at the end but the cop thing was cheaper to film.

@hantumann4r449

Жыл бұрын

I think it's a creative way to end a troublesome movie production by making it funny, random and "f you" moments

@eliwoodthegoothoonter538

Жыл бұрын

​@@NabekukkaI came here to say the same thing and I'm very disturbed by your pfp. This was not planned. This has been my pfp for 7 years

Monty Python is a masterclass of “Never Let Them Guess Your Next Move”. You like to think you’re gonna see the punchline, but then it pulls something COMPLETELY different and completely unhinged out of their ass.

The end is not only a "Cop out"... it is given its own backstory within the movie as its own subplot. The GENIUS of this film is still yet to be fully recognized.

@petrri323

Жыл бұрын

It's such an underrated part of the movie frfr

@Alyssa-t

Жыл бұрын

Actually. The ending with them getting arrested wasn’t planned. They were actually getting arrested. They didn’t have the rights to film there. Haha

@filmsnat3428

Жыл бұрын

@@Alyssa-t Umm this IS sarcasm right? haha

@Alyssa-t

Жыл бұрын

@@filmsnat3428 actually no. From what I was told they were arrested cause they didn’t have the rights

@BananaHoovyJ.Rabbit

Жыл бұрын

​@@Alyssa-t Yeah, and then they released that footage with the movie... You're not very smart are you?

It's actually an extremely esoteric movie. The boys really did their research. Everybody always asks why a rabbit? Apart from being funny the white rabbit is the guardian of the cave that leads to the river Styx. The movie is peppered with them, little old world nods to pre Christian beliefs. Even the coconut gag.

@rayanderson5797

Жыл бұрын

Well basically all the main cast are Harvard and Yale graduates. So it's not just dumb comedy, it extremely smart dumb comedy.

@noelienoelie8425

Жыл бұрын

@@rayanderson5797 Camouflaged extremely well.

@Macilmoyle

Жыл бұрын

@@rayanderson5797 Oxford and Cambridge actually.

@realburglazofficial2613

Жыл бұрын

Also shouting “run away!”. Back then the language was pre-Saxon so French words were not in common usage, they would not have known/used “retreat” as it’s French. “Run away” would have been more linguistically accurate.

@oliedmis97

Жыл бұрын

@@rayanderson5797 extremely smart dumb comedy is the best description of Monty Python I've ever heard!

“Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?!” To this day, my favourite line on any movie ever.

As a note, coconut halves actually sound like horses' hoofs. Every time my mom would buy us coconuts, we would do this around the house because of this movie!!

@mr.inkwell4782

Жыл бұрын

God bless your mother. She raised you well. 🙏

@Elholz

8 ай бұрын

They were used for sound effects for that reason since way before the movie and it's the reason they went with the coconuts when they couldn't afford the horses. That gag has so many layers while still being so basic that anyone can laugh at it. Truly brilliant.

@tamiwatchesstuff

7 ай бұрын

Yep, and before television, coconuts were used for horse sound effects on radio shows, so hence running joke.

PSA: catapulting deceased (several days or weeks old) animals was sort of an "area denial" tactic during castle defense. The rotting corpses would split open upon landing, spreading foul odors, bodily ephemera, and disease.

@ThreadBomb

Жыл бұрын

It was also a way to get sources of disease out of the besieged castle.

@bencaspar

Жыл бұрын

And a nice way to show some creativity during a sometimes long slog of a siege. Maybe spice it up with a half dozen piglets on a chain or someting similarly festive

@NecramoniumVideo

Жыл бұрын

@@bencaspar Get help

@bencaspar

Жыл бұрын

@@NecramoniumVideo this is the youtube comment section, fool! If you think my comment was that bad maybe YOU should get some help. You certainly need some perspective. Lighten up!

@NecramoniumVideo

Жыл бұрын

@@bencaspar get help

"i got better" is one of my favorite quick deadpan lines in a comedy, up there with "my father went the same way" in the naked gun.

Watching Americans laugh so hard and appreciate classic British humour fills me with so much pride

@CaptainEffort

8 ай бұрын

This movie’s super popular in the US too, it’s quoted all the time

@YellowLantern18

7 ай бұрын

I was raised on British humor like Are you being served,Keeping up appearances, etc, and a little Irish with Father Ted .

@ElroyMcDuff

7 ай бұрын

​@@YellowLantern18 Great shows! Have you seen As Time Goes By?

@IAmDroot

6 ай бұрын

Holy Grail is my favorite comedy of all time. Probably my favorite movie of all time period

@40GamesAG

5 ай бұрын

British humor is the best! Love from across the pond!

Always loved how despite lancelot massacring the dancers doing that circle, the ones that survive are continuously trying to reform and continue the dance regardless.

Here's some fun facts for you: This movie is considered such a classic that many game developers have put references of this movie in their games. The game Worms W.M.D has the holy hand grenade as a useable weapon and in the game Minecraft you have a chance to come across a white, red eyed bunny that attacks you. Edit: Also it's implied the historian that died during the filming was killed by someone not part of the movie as the killer was the only one with an actual horse while no one else during the film did. Which means he could still be out there...

@trumpsdailytruthsmakelibsc6952

Жыл бұрын

The knight on the horse was the black knight's cousin called Reginald

@Dylan_Platt

Жыл бұрын

Holy Hand Grenade was also a weapon option in the PS1 Duke Nukem game, A Time To Kill

@knowledge-girl

Жыл бұрын

In The Sims Medieval, one of the NPCs is Roger the Shrubber, and if you get wounded you can get a debuff called "'Tis but a flesh wound."

@mr.battle20

Жыл бұрын

There's a special encounter in Fallout 2 where King Arthur and his knights appear (in Brotherhood of Steel powered armor), and they're searching for the Holy Hand Grenade. There's also an encounter with the Bridge Keeper at the Bridge of Death. He'll ask you three questions, and if you answer wrong, you die. Get them all correct, and you are allowed to pass. Turn the last question around into a question for the Bridge Keeper, and HE'LL die, allowing you to take his robes as loot (they're as strong as combat armor).

@QuayNemSorr

Жыл бұрын

The rabbit and the cave was also in the Witcher 3. There was a lot of bones outside a cave with a white rabbit sitting on them. The rabbit was invulnerable to sword attacks but could be killed by throwing a grenade at it.

"As long as it's funny, you can get away with anything in a movie" That is so well put. If The Holy Grail wasn't funny, like if they tried to make it historical or a period drama, or even a bad comedy, it would be a disaster. And yet, it's regarded as a masterpiece in comedy. A true classic in every sense of the word.

I love the ending because it's like they were a bunch of crazy cosplayers who eventually got shut down at the end lol

I love how when they met Tim the enchanter that was a blooper, the actor was meant to say some long crazy sounding name but when they went to film it he forgot and just adlibbed the name Tim that is part of why the pause before saying his name is so long lol

@jamj4r

5 ай бұрын

If you look in his eyes, you can see him thinking about it before deciding to go for it

@kathyastrom1315

3 ай бұрын

Actually, that’s just a myth. John Cleese himself debunked it. He said that nothing on the screen was improvised, it was all in the script.

Due to both budget constraints and the fact that most castle owners didn't want anything to do with it, the various castles are mostly all the same castle shot from different angles. If you go to that castle now, it's a tourist location. At the gift shop, if you feel so inclined, you can rent a pair of coconut half-shells so that you can go riding around the castle grounds.

@goingDutchn0n13

Жыл бұрын

OMG, what?! Which castle is it?

@stevensauer8539

Жыл бұрын

@@goingDutchn0n13 Doune Castle, Stirling, Scotland.

@werejojoz

7 ай бұрын

Castle Argggh is actually Castle Stalker on the west coast not Doune.

This was a great reaction, you both explained the ending the same way I do. They love adding a "fuck you" moment for the audience and will just change the narrative on a whim.

@NiceDudeMovieNight

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! It was a truly bizarre ending in the best way possible

@Fedorevsky

Жыл бұрын

@@NiceDudeMovieNight You're going to love Life of Brian, the next film they made

@veronicahamilton3174

Жыл бұрын

@@NiceDudeMovieNight You could say that the ending was a....😎 cop out.

@thegladve

Жыл бұрын

@@NiceDudeMovieNight a " fuck you" ending is one way to call it, you could also see that as a literal copout ending.

@robstoll7542

Жыл бұрын

I saw this movie for the first time when I was 14 years old and the ending passed me off. It wasn't until I started watching the reruns of their TV show that I understood: They would do the skit for as long as it was funny. If the bit was starting to become tired, they'd transition into Terry Gilliam's animation, which would be the bridge to the next skit. I believe the Python's couldn't come up with an ending that they found funny enough, so they created this murder investigation and this "cop out" ending. The coconut 🥥 bit was created out of necessity. They were operating on a shoestring budget and thus couldn't afford horses for the entire cast of characters. One of the Python's came up with the inspired concept and the crazy swallow routine.

I saw this when it first came out back in the '70s ... in a double bill with Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles! I could barely walk out of the cinema afterwards, my stomach ached so much from laughing 😂

@lindsayheim-nugent2567

6 ай бұрын

So jealous. That had to be awesome

@MatthewHoskinsAethel

5 ай бұрын

Me too, it was also the very first time I took a girl out on a date and learned that laughter makes us closer. At one point she was crying on my shoulder from the agony of laughing so much.

@40GamesAG

5 ай бұрын

I feel like that combo would be deadlier than the Killer Joke! (Speaking of Monty Python!)

Every time you mentioned how much the cut back to the murder investigation was your favourite joke, I got more excited about the ending. It’s so left field

The ending is literally a cop out which makes it my personal favourite joke payoff of all time 🤣

@korganrocks3995

Жыл бұрын

Most people miss that little fact!

@Moonstriker2514

Жыл бұрын

OMFG its a COP out I....don't have words........help.....

@Moonstriker2514

Жыл бұрын

@@philrob1978 "cop out" is used to refer to ridiculous or lazy reasoning for events to go a certain way in a story. The reason the movie suddenly ends can be seen as ridiculous as King Arthur is suddenly arrested by Cops (police/law enforcement) and makes the word play of "Cop Out"

@m.hunterstevie2081

Жыл бұрын

My favorite of the Python cop-out endings was in the Flying Circus episode which ends in the Argument Clinic sketch. In that episode, every sketch ends with some special agent from a “film fraud” division of Scotland Yard showing up to arrest the fake director of that scene… until at the end of the Argument Clinic, another detective shows up and reads off a litany of charges against them. This includes the charge of not ending scenes with a proper punchline, citing that they’ve just been ending every scene by having the police show up… and then the cop realizing that he’s also a cop who arrived to end a sketch without a proper punchline, which causes a cop to appear to arrest him and then triggers what we assume to be an infinite stream of cops arresting other cops as the episode ends. Brilliant stuff… 🤣

@vsGoliath96

Жыл бұрын

They also arrested the wrong people. The knight who kills the famous historian was riding on a horse, which is very much not a coconut.

I originally saw this in the theater around 1976, and during the scene with the monks slapping their foreheads with wooden tablets ("ee--ay-es-u-dor-mi-nayyyy"), I found myself down on all fours on the sticky theater floor laughing so hard that I literally could not breathe. As funny as the movie is, it's even better with a large audience. You guys talked-through and missed a great line at 3:02. When still in the plague riddled town the king and Patsy "ride" by and the fella pushing the cart full of dead bodies (Eric Idle) says "That must be the king". When he is asked how does he know he replied "He hasn't got shit all over him".

@MycontentisgoldJerryGold

Жыл бұрын

In an overhead shot of the monks, you can see one of them hit himself out of unison with the others.

@danadagostino948

Жыл бұрын

Actually, the monks are chanting "Pie Iesu Domine, Dona Eis Requiem", from a 13th century hymn. It translates to "Holy Jesus, Lord, grant them rest".

@kevinmills1318

Жыл бұрын

That line always gets me

@majkus

Жыл бұрын

In 1982, at the Southern California Renaissance Faire, a group of customers came in doing what we would now call cosplay as the monks, processing through the Faire chanting and bapping themselves. The cast was talking about them backstage all day. I'd say they were a big hit, but that would be a terrible pun, so I won't. One of them became a regular cast member, and still participates as of 2022.

@Doggeslife

Жыл бұрын

@@majkus That would have been a sight to see!

I saw this movie in the 70's at a drive-in theater. I was laughing so hard I could hardly breath and had to turn around to catch my breath. I turned back around at the point when the monks were chanting and hitting themselves and immediately had to turn back around. I've never laughed so hard before or since. A true classic. So many quotable lines.

My history teacher in highschool showed us this movie, wasn't even part of our lesson he just wanted us to see it. I'm so glad for it though he introduced me to something that I would reference to this day, I genuinely say "I fart in your general direction" with a stupid french accent anytime I can.

Fun fact: Tim the enchanter got his name because John Cleese forgot the line giving his name and said "Tim" instead, and the rest of the cast just rolled with it and never broke character. I think the name was supposed to be some long, ridiculous sounding name. Personally, I like "Tim" better, because the delivery is so much better. The hesitation before he says it, the slight questioning tone in his voice (is he even sure what people call him?), and the perfect punchline of a mundane name for an eccentric character.

@Chasmodius

Жыл бұрын

I've read that this is just a rumor. Early scripts appear to show the enchanter named as "Tim," and Cleese has said there was no improvisation at all.

@ThreadBomb

Жыл бұрын

@@Chasmodius Yep. A lot of "fun facts" that you find in reaction comments are just myths that no one's bothered to think about.

@gertrudelaronge6864

Жыл бұрын

"Tim the Enchanter" is my favorite character.

@monsterlair

Жыл бұрын

Another myth. The character is named Tim in the final draft of the script. It's one quick google away.

@wolf310ii

Жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: his name being Tim IS the joke, because you expect some long unique name

The animator who was at his desk, and keeled over with a heart attack, was indeed Terry Gilliam, who did all of Python's animation in the TV show, as well as their films. He also played Patsy the first coconut clapper, as well as the bridgekeeper.

@VinceHagenbeek

Жыл бұрын

As well as the Green Knight who got killed by the Black Knight and Sir Bors, the first knight who got killed by the rabbit.

@belle.m

Жыл бұрын

Also co directed it with Terry Jones

@MyCaptainPugwash

Жыл бұрын

And then directed Brazil, wrote the screen play for Fear and Loathing and quite a few other things. Terry is a very complicated man.

The part where it takes a billion cuts for Lancelot to just suddenly come up and start stabbing everyone kills me everytime, the first time I saw it I laughed for a solid 10 minutes cos it just took me off guard completely.

My husband showed me this movie the moment we subscribed on Netflix. I had never laughed so much in my entire life and I was so confused by the end until I realised that they fired the entire credits team so they can’t do the credits! Very clever humour.

It's such a joy seeing people react to the Monty Python stuff and it still works exactly as it did in the 70s/80s, back when it was new. :D It IS some of the best comedy out there in movie form. ONly surpassed, perhaps, by Monty Python's Life of Brian.

@Spurkadurka

Жыл бұрын

Life of Brian is certainly on par, such a great movie. Wonderful seeing such joy watching this though!

@RenegadeVile

Жыл бұрын

I personally prefer this one, but it really is a toss-up between Grail and Life of Brian. Everyone likes both, some people just prefer one over the other.

@Oliviux78

Жыл бұрын

I guess the difference between this movie and Life Of Brian is that Life Of Brian more has a story to it. It’s a good story. It makes fun of how Christianity started. It also had an ending.

PS: I've seen this movie ten thousand times. I NEVER noticed that the sun on Arthur's chest has a mustache on it. THANK YOU! This is why I love reaction videos. I never, ever noticed that. You guys are great!!!! I'm a happy subscriber!

@mgthestrange9098

Жыл бұрын

Also, Sir Robin’s emblem is a chicken and he’s a coward.

@marcye3649

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely floored! Same! I grew up watching this sooo much. Didn’t catch either. Thank you, kind commenters. ❤

I've seen this movie so many times, but I thoroughly enjoyed watching it with you guys!

“My face hurts!” So happy to see you have this experience now and still enjoy it so much, I watched this movie so many times growing up and it never gets old

7:19 - The cartoons that are in the film were done by one of the main members of the Monty Python group, Terry Gilliam. In fact, Terry was responsible for all animation work throughout the Monty Python show and films. Terry was also the co-director for the film as well.

@logandarklighter

8 ай бұрын

Gilliam is also the lone American in the troupe. He turned out to be absolutely integral to the look and style of the original TV program. But he didn’t get much in the way of speaking parts. I wager he was fine with that since his talents lay in art and directing. He also turned out to be quite the talented producer and director. His films range from the Python Films to completely original and well acclaimed works like 12 Monkeys and Brazil.

@lemonielala3080

6 ай бұрын

And he's Patsy, isn't he?

I just wanted to say I love editing skills: the close-ups and the captioning. Made the reaction even more enjoyable.

@NiceDudeMovieNight

Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️

@pfeilspitze

7 ай бұрын

Yes! The animates captions were amazing.

I remember going to a local movie theater for a rerun in the late 1980s with a girl I had a crush on, and we also took her younger sister along. And, while I was laughing SO hard, the girls were just totally confused with what was going on onscreen... Taught me that the woman I wanted to spend my life with needed to have a sense of humour similar to mine!

I watched this movie as a 14yo kid in the 80s. I didn't get half of it but laughed just as much as you guys did. Watching it again with you, now, as a 56yo kid who gets it, I'm laughing even more. Thanks guys

"Tis but a scratch!" "A scratch!? Your arms off!" "No, it isn't " "Well, what's that?" "I've had worse." "You liar!" "Come on, you pansy!"

@NiceDudeMovieNight

Жыл бұрын

What are you gonna do, bleed on me?!

@papercup2517

Жыл бұрын

@@NiceDudeMovieNight It was only a flesh wound...

"This movie is shot really well!" You should see what directors Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones can do with a budget. Monty Python goes on to make several more movies, and there's a scene in the next one that cost as much as this whole movie. But it's when the Terry's came to Hollywood when they started creating their most iconic and epic work. Terry Jones directed the hysterical "Erik The Viking," with Tim Robbins and various Python members. Terry Gilliam's "Dream Trilogy" will melt your brain. "Time Bandits" "Brazil" and "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" is full of Pythonesque humor but will explode your mind with their brilliant visuals. He went on to make the popular hits "12 Monkeys" "The Fisher King" and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."

@FlashyVic

Жыл бұрын

Another forgotten Gilliam film is Jabberwocky. Though not an "official" Python project, it does feature a few of the Pythons including Michael Palin in the leasing role as Dennis.

@BestAnimeFreak

Жыл бұрын

"and there's a scene in the next one that cost as much as this whole movie." Without looking it up and I'm not sure if Life of Brian is the next movie (but I guess it is), is it the alien one? xD

@chrisleebowers

Жыл бұрын

@@BestAnimeFreak SSSHHHH!!! 😉

@kevinmills1318

Жыл бұрын

I still have yet to get through adventures of baron munchausen. Doctor Parnassus was a stellar film Fear and loathing proved how well he can make a film adaptation of a literary work

@chrisleebowers

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinmills1318 That's a good one and almost nobody remembers it despite being Heath Ledger's last movie and the star power that came together to finish it. Give Baron M another shot. Maybe burn some mood-altering herbs first...

Seeing these reactions to a movie I love bring me such joy. It just shows that the humor is ageless.

I remember a random fact about the musical score in the movie. "Serious" or classical type music had never been used before (or was known to have been) in comedy movies before, so that part is highly experimental. It worked out well! (The animation stuff of course also being a staple of Monty Python)

There's no credits at the end because they fired everyone in charge of credits at the beginning.

Dudes....I was OBSESSED with Monthy Python as a teenager! Holy Grail, The meaning of Life and Life of Brian are 3 of my top tier comedy flicks of all time! there are scenes in each movie that still crack me up to this day like the sheer chaos of that intro scene, the whole discussion about coconuts, the citizens who are OPPRESSED!!!, the Black Knight fight or the sorcerer they call..................Tim I also love the idea of "Here is a historian telling the story AND NOW HE´S GONE!" and how that essentially leads to the abrupt ending of the movie Those just scream to me "What if we just go nuts and see what sticks in the editing room?"

@NiceDudeMovieNight

Жыл бұрын

I can only wonder what the editing room was like for this movie 😵‍💫

@mikewoodrow5878

Жыл бұрын

“…and it seemed to go wherever I…did go!”

@davidozab2753

Жыл бұрын

Obsessed with the series and the films and taped them all off PBS before owning them on VHS and later DVD. Grail is still my all-time favorite comedy.

@pickledkumera5065

Жыл бұрын

I'm 50 and they're still my go to laugh...

I remember my sister watching this for the first time and she wasn't interested. But at the end she shouted "that's it?! That's how it ends?!" 😂

What you said at the end is exactly right - this is the perfect movie to watch when you don't want to have to think about a plot, you just want to laugh and have a good time.

I absolutely adore peoples initial reactions to any Monty Python movie or sketch, its always hilarious, timeless classic

Hey guys! Another great reaction! Python is always an interesting test of a person's sense of humour because Python is a particular brand of humour that is unique to them, and it is certainly not for all tastes. The way that they mix heady, intellectual humor with just plain silliness is unmatched. By the bye, the idea of the "French Taunter" (I wave my private parts at your aunties!) is actually based on historical fact. Armies often would taunt each other in this way as a part of warfare in the middle ages. Indeed, a lot of the brilliance of this film is how they use historical research as the core of what they are doing and then twist that in a hundred different ways. As a preview for Life of Brian (my favourite of their films, and their best film), it first came to them when a reported asked Eric Idle what the title of their next film would be, and he replied, "Jesus Christ: Lust for Glory." Also, the film was banned in several American cities and in several countries around the world. So you have that to look forward to!!

@NiceDudeMovieNight

Жыл бұрын

It's definitely on the list for us! Thanks for watching 🎉

@chairmanofthebored6860

Жыл бұрын

I love that the Battle of Badon Hill is mentioned. The name Arthur didn't pop up in history until after that battle, so it's theorized that he was a British warlord that pushed back the Saxons (for a little while at least) and gained enough fame that people started naming their children after him.

@jamesalexander5623

Жыл бұрын

He knew that the Original Title of Patton was "Patton : Lust for Glory"! When I saw it in London that was the Title that appeared on Screen!

@mkgaming5823

Жыл бұрын

@@chairmanofthebored6860 There is quite a few theories to who he was (Or based on) The two main ones being a Brythonic Warlord or that or this Roman general fella

@davidozab2753

Жыл бұрын

I love how layered their humor is. One example: I didn't know until years later that "your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries" was a much more elegant way of calling his mother a slut and his father a drunk.

This is my absolute favorite movie ever. Seen it easily over 50x, no exaggeration.

My parents introduced me to Monty Python and I instantly feel in love with the group and their movies, they're actually pretty deep at times even though they seem extremly shallow at first. Glad to see you also did the life of brian :) Edit: I would have loved to experience these in theatre, unfortunately the movie is as twice as old

@k_t_a66

5 ай бұрын

It's "their" movies as they were a group not a single person :)

@MartialGlobe

5 ай бұрын

@@k_t_a66 oh thank you of course, idk why I have mistaken the group for one single person or a regisseur

It’s amazing how much comedy today is inspired from Monty Python. Deadpool’s credits and the fight with colossus was clearly inspired from this movie and that’s just one example. Unlike many comedies that came after they used more comedic techniques than just dialogue such as the Lancelot running scene, however techniques like that are mostly used in animation now. It’s amazing how much of comedy was shaped by this movie.

The animated bits were already a big thing in the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus - they're created by the one American member of the Pythons, famous director Terry Gilliam. (Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Time Bandits, Münchhausen...)

@gertrudelaronge6864

Жыл бұрын

A truly brilliant multi-talented artist.

@WUStLBear82

Жыл бұрын

Like the rest of the movie, some of the animations are historical references. The men bending over with trumpets against their anus were found as marginalia in medieval manuscripts; the monks and nuns who worked as copyists amused themselves by drawing often-scatological cartoons on the edges of the parchment, but the drawings also served as a commentary on the adjacent text. A fart joke might indicate criticism of a bad character.

This proves just how ahead of the times the sketch was imo.. it's utter genius

As a huge Python fan who’s seen both the film and the musical numerous times, it is such a delight to see your first reactions to this. It’s such a fun journey.

Fantastic reaction. Welcome to the insane world of Monty Python.

@NiceDudeMovieNight

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and we're definitely happy to be here haha

@lyndalang836

Жыл бұрын

I was new in the office and the secretary had this laptop just sitting closed on a nearby chair. I asked her what was the matter with it? She said "It's dead." I don't know why but I replied "No, it's just pining." She immediately shot back "It's pining for the fjords of Norway!" We Found we both have brothers....

The movie was directed by two members of the Python team; Terry Gilliam is the one who went on to acclaim, and you can tell when he's directing, due to atmospheric use of smoke, lots of set dressing in shot, unusual angles and use of wide angle lenses. Gilliam also did the animations. His first solo movie, Jabberwocky, also had a medieval setting, and is definitely worth watching. Also, did you notice that all six Python members were playing multiple parts throughout the film? Comedy albums were big in the 1970s, and Monty Python put out a number of them, including a "soundtrack" of Holy Grail. The gimmick is that it is supposedly a live recording of a showing of the movie; it includes scenes from the film but also additional sketches. You can find playlists of the complete record on KZread. And another thing! Technically the first Monty Python movie is "And now for something completely different", for which they redid some of the best sketches from their TV show, but this time in widescreen and on film.

@kathyastrom1315

Жыл бұрын

Terry Jones was the co-director. He became known in his post-Python career as the creator and host of history documentaries, mostly in the medieval period. He had gotten his master’s degree in English literature with a dissertation on Chaucer’s knight (which he published and I’ve read-it’s quite good!). I especially like his miniseries on the Crusades.

@jean-paulaudette9246

Жыл бұрын

@@kathyastrom1315 I'm still peeved that that Chaucer jerk hasn't finished "The Canterbury Tales" yet..

"that is the dumbest fight i have ever seen" honestly that can be used for pretty much anything in monty python like monthy pyton is just one big scramble of "that is the dumbest" insert situation "thing i have ever seen " XD and i love it

Absolutely glorious reaction! I was grinning from ear to ear the whole way through. I'm so happy you loved it so much. 😀

18:53 His name was improvised. His character was originally supposed to have a long, complicated name, but the actor forgot, so he just called himself Tim. The director thought it was so funny, they changed the script to call him Tim.

"I just don't know what to expect." And that's when the choir shoved trumpets up their butts. The accidental, utterly stupid comedic timing on that is perfectly Monty Python.

There’s a reason this is my favorite movie of all time. You should find a dvd copy, the special features are the funniest thing! A tutorial on the monk chant, including smacking your head with the dvd case (the narrator gets increasingly deranged throughout) a fan made Lego stop motion version of the Camelot scene ( it’s on KZread, but it’s cool that it was added to the official dvd release back in like 2003) and more!

This is absolutely my favourite Monty Python reaction ever. I got a box set of the MP films for my 12th birthday (17 years ago!) and I remember crying laughing at those moose jokes in the opening credits!

As I get older, it warms my heart to watch younger people laugh at the stuff I laughed at when I was a kid.

My absolute favourite movie of all time. I have watched this hundreds of times over the years and it still makes me nearly wet my pants laughing. Still have this on VCR!! My sister and I still use quotes from the film to this day, she is 60and I’m 63. It never gets old!🤣🤣🤣

I saw this in 1975 shortly after it was released. The laughter in the theater was epic.

Monty Python just goes to show what five British transvestites and one American illustrator can accomplish when they really put their minds to it. Filmed on location in Scotland.

Fun fact. The movie was financed by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, the movie's co-producer Michael White, a cricket team, and three record companies.

This is one of my favorite comedies of all time. Brilliant British absurdism at its best. It's hard to pick a favorite scene, this movie's just a comedy slam-dunk. Gotta love that trolling ending, though, with the organ music playing over the black screen. That's because the people responsible for the credits were sacked at the beginning of the movie.

Patsy, the one who said "it's only a model" is the animator of the cartoon sections. Terry Gilliam went on to direct a lot of weird movies. The ending is a "cop out"

If you think this movie is a "Fuck You," Just wait until you watch Life of Brian.

@NiceDudeMovieNight

Жыл бұрын

Oh geez 😂 Wish us luck!

@ThreadBomb

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't call Brian a "fuck you" movie. It does have a proper ending, in fact it's generally agreed to be a great ending.

@txcforever

Жыл бұрын

Nah, that is way more coherent and has an actual ending. Monty Python and The Holy Grail is so insane that after seeing it so many times I still don't know what to make of it as a whole.

@TatsuChi

Жыл бұрын

@@txcforever would you believe the version the dudes watched/reacted to was actually the extended cut?

@txcforever

Жыл бұрын

@@TatsuChi Yeah, because I have a copy of the original version and a few of the scenes weren't in that one.

As someone who's watched this film more times than I can count, it's so great to see you reactions. Like seeing it through fresh eyes.

It's been so long since I have watched this and seeing someone enjoy it for the first time makes my heart so happy. Thank you.

I love that you never touch on the fact that Sir Robin's heraldry is a giant chicken

I love pretty much every joke in this movie, but I love how it ends as a literal cop-out the most. It's why they did all of the credits at the start instead of at the end like most movies.

@kpearce7961

Жыл бұрын

Well that, and they already fired the credits making people at the beginning of the movie.

@bluelagoon1980

Жыл бұрын

Historically, movies usually (almost always) had the credits at the beginning, as in this film. You can see this in The Wizard of Oz, for example. It wasn't until the 70s into the 80s that movies switched to putting the credits at the end.

So happy you did this, I love watching fresh victims fall prey to Holy Grail's ending! DEFINITELY check out Life of Brian if you haven't already - it's a bit more of a coherent movie but it's just as funny!

@VespoLiveGaming

Жыл бұрын

It's so hard to find anyone in the English speaking world who doesn't already know this film and can recite half of it from memory. Oh no, I said IT again....

Seeing how much you loved this made me laugh along too. Your smiles and reactions are fantastic!

Thank you guys for a great reaction

Gauging by your taste in movies from past reactions I suspect you guys would really enjoy one of my favorites of all time: The Dish (2000) is an Australian comedy drama that didn’t see a huge worldwide release but is an absolutely great little gem of a film. It’s very loosely based on real events surrounding a satellite dish crew that played a key role in the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, but the real fun is all the zany characters and fictional plot that it’s wrapped in.

@DonnaCPunk

Жыл бұрын

Yes that’s an amazing movie. I’ve never seen a reactor do it. I used to watch that once a week for a few years after it hit video, I love it so much.

@AdamNisbett

Жыл бұрын

@@siraea89 I recognized Sam Neill and Patrick Warburton as actors from other worldwide A-list films, but I don’t watch enough local Australian stuff to have recognized any of the rest of the actors.

Its genuinely nice to see someone experience this film for the first time and the joy it brings, it's kinda like seeing someone's first time watching Fight Club cuz they don't know the twist yet.

Fun Fact: Their filing license for the location expired before they finished filing, so the cops coming and arresting everyone was real, and they kept the footage and made that the ending.

I just discovered your channel from watching the naked gun reaction(you guys cracked me up). What is fun about your channel is your reactions and general appreciation for things that are funny when seeing them first time. You pick up small details that most people do not get. I grew up with this movie (now 37) and it was fun to see how people react for watching this gem for the first time! Comedy is a universal way to distract us all from the craziness of the world. Kudos

You must watch this movie more than once. You get new jokes every time. I can't tell you how many times I have watched it since it was released. Every reaction video I've watched for Holy Grail has ended with the reviewer saying, "Is that it?" Every single one. Yes, that's it.

@mrtom2854

Жыл бұрын

I must've watched it at least 12 times, and I find something new to laugh at every time

That ending! I always love imagining audiences in theaters when this first came out...sitting in a dark theater with that music playing, waiting to see if it really is the end of the movie. Did people stick around? Did people get up and leave?

@NiceDudeMovieNight

Жыл бұрын

Oh it'd be amazing to see everyone look at each other in confusion

@FlashyVic

Жыл бұрын

I'm old enough to have gone to see it when it came out. Most of the audience when I saw it were Python fans like me so the ending, though surprising, wasn't as big a shock as it would have been to someone coming to Python for the first time. Definitely a WTF moment, in fact I'm pretty sure that was shouted out by more than one person at the showing, but everyone was expecting something unusual given how their TV shows would end.

@philiprice7875

Жыл бұрын

yep most of us sat for 5 mins waiting for something to happen we realised the film had ended when the lights came up and the cleaners came in

@kevinmills1318

Жыл бұрын

Waiting for one of the next Marvel Comic Universe films to end the same way. It'd be great, considering people often stick around to see if there is a post-credit scene.

This has got to be the best reaction to this movie that I have ever seen! It was hysterical. Reminds me of the first time I watched it with our D&D group back in the 80s. Good times!

The life of brian is also just as gut wrenchingly funny monty python just doesnt miss ever!

Another great react guys. Fun fact, John Cleese actually forgot the wizards name. They loved the joke of "Tim the Wizard" so much they kept it in. If you are looking for random comedy I recommend Weird Al's "UHF" movie.

@Xt3rminat318

Жыл бұрын

@@zerpblerd5966 weird hill to die on. But I'll give it to you, he is labeled as "Tim the Enchanter" in imdb.

@werejojoz

7 ай бұрын

He didn't forget - that was scripted. Just a rumour as was the 'they ran out of money so had to stop the film with everyone getting arrested' or they actually got arrested due to not being allowed to film at the castle anymore - the ending was scripted too. That was a running thing throughout the series 'can't think of an ending go with something abrupt' there was alot of end of scene arrests. Mostly they stuck with plan just really dialogue got changed

We were weird kids, my brother got the VHS of this movie for his 10th birthday. This movie has a very special place in my heart.

@jamesalexander5623

Жыл бұрын

No It Doesn't!

@nickmanzo8459

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesalexander5623 yes it does!

@jamesalexander5623

Жыл бұрын

@@nickmanzo8459 No it Doesn't!

@nickmanzo8459

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesalexander5623 yes it does!!!

@jamesalexander5623

Жыл бұрын

@@nickmanzo8459 That was never 5 Minutes just now!

Absolutely loving you guys watching, and enjoying this one... such a masterpiece!

Your reactions are just so perfect! I love this movie so much and seeing you react is just a chefs kiss!