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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

And now! At Last! Another film completely different from some of the other films which aren't quite the same as this one is.

1975 • 91 min • Adventure · Comedy · Fantasy

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Synopsis

King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".

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King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal and often absurd quest to find the Holy Grail. Along their journey, they encounter a variety of eccentric characters and face hilariously strange challenges, all while maintaining their noble (and often misguided) purpose.

Violence & peril
5/10
Language
3/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
1/10
Romance & sensuality
2/10
Scary moments
2/10

Heads up

  • Fantasy violence, sometimes graphic but played for laughs
  • Mild language and suggestive humor
  • Some scenes may be confusing for younger viewers

What it models well

  • Perseverance through absurdity
  • Loyalty to a cause
  • Questioning authority

Talk about it after

  • The use of satire and parody to tell a story
  • Different types of humor, including slapstick and wordplay
  • The historical context versus the film's comedic take

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Top billed cast

Director: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam • Crew: Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Thomas Malory

Trailers & clips

Trailer Fall 2023

Original Trailer [FHD]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail star Carol Cleveland | BFI Q&A

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ≣ 1975 ≣ DVD trailer

Adam Rifkin on MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

Reviewer notes

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

## **Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Review: An Unassailable, Coconut-Clapping 10/10 Masterpiece** To call *Monty Python and the Holy Grail* a mere "comedy" is a disservice akin to calling the Crown Jewels "some nice rocks." It is not just a film; it is a cultural atom bomb, a foundational pillar of absurdist humor, and quite simply one of the most perfectly constructed, relentlessly inventive, and side-...

Recommended

Fortunately for me this was a rather short visit to the surreal land of Monty Python, and though it does have it's moments, I was really quite unimpressed by their Arthurian antics. We start with Graham Chapman's King Arthur gadding about England tying to recruit some suitably worthy individuals to sit at his round table. Task complete, he gets a sign from God that they must undertake the most holy of quests - and...

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

Seriously, you could die laughing from this film. I remember the first time I watched this film, back in antenna days on the educational UHF station that was all fuzz, and even then I thought I would die laughing. The story of King Arthur always did beg for such a satire. The bits are almost all memorable. I durst not mention even one, because I would be tempted to mention a hundred more scenes and a thousand m...

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

**One of the pinnacles of British humor.** This was my first contact with Monty Python, which I already knew famously, and I loved the movie. It is quite simply one of the high points of British humor. The film is easy enough to understand, parodying the Arthurian legends surrounding the quest for the Grail, but the story is just a pretext for successive jokes, each one better than the last. I don't know the...

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Details

TMDB audience
7.8/10 (6,503)
Age rating
PG
Status
Released
Budget
$400,000
Box office
$5,763,644
IMDb
tt0071853
Official site
www.sonypictures.com

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