We were talking about Monty Python the other night at dinner and we put on You Tube and looked at a couple of Python sketches. Then we got to the killer rabbit in Holy Grail and I remembered just how much I loved thhis movie when it came out. And for years after. Me and my mates went down to the Trak cinema in Toorak, which was our usual haunt for cinemas. We laughed from the moment it started until the final seconds. But even more fun was the years or maybe even decades after when you would get together with another Python fan and speak Pythonese. I just laugh thinking about it. So I showed the film to my kids and they got it so well. The absurd humour just works on every level.
I'm sure there are so many people walking around with their sense of humour fully moulded by watching these shows and films from the seventies. Really, they were the best comedy ever.
What was even more exciting was the coming of video. I swear we wore out the tapes. The ones from the video shop were always slightly dodgy from so many plays.
Just as amazing is the quality of the film. I never once thought of it as a low budget movie. It looks great.
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