MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) **** Best cinematic performance ever by a horse, by Graham Chapman. Other than that, there's no point singling out any member of the cast, they're all brilliant in many roles, high pitched vocces, raised eyebrows and confused diction leading the way. Every quest must have a mystery and the main one raised here is: who do they think is more worthy of mockery-early British civilization, contemporary western culture, or the French under any circumstances? This film contains scathing (high pitched scretching?!) commentary on everything it indulges, and not one, not two, but handfulls of the funniest scenes ever put to celluloid. Benefitting from a plot that everyone already knows, and they can thus refuse to fulfill to our better consternation, the impropriety of the sketches is interrupted only by neoscandogroovulous animation. This film no doubt contains multi-tracked commentaries on the Templars so secret and well hidden that no one knows why or that they are there, not even the Python's themselves. Exploding genius of the most macabre sort, so far as the Tories are concerned. Probably the funniest movie ever made.
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