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Comments

[fscom]

10. http://i.imgur.com/fD917Z8.jpg

[starphotographs]

Eh, it's bleak but it's funny. And the bleakness is why it's funny. I kind of think that was the point. But, different strokes, etc.

[mekkio]

Oh, come on. The praising God scene in the church was at least worth a laugh.

[sparklywalls]

When I was a kid I would run out of the room whenever that restaurant scene came on because it really scared me, just the thought of what was being implied. I don't think I've ever sat through it as an adult as a result.

And yet I am totally not bothered by the chest buster in Alien. Go figure.

[ex_mek82]

This is by far my least favorite of the Monty Python movies. The only part I can bear to sit through multiple times is the Crimson Permanent Assurance bit at the beginning and that's it. Otherwise, the movie just came off as kinda over the top*mean, forced shock value, and well... tired.

Strictly IMHO, of course.

[nightscale]

I just remember that scene grossing me out as a kid. I can't remember much else about it, unlike other MP films I've only seen it once.

[(Anonymous)]

I never really got this one either, even though I enjoyed Holy Grail and Life of Brian.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked most of it but i did hate the scene in the restaurant. It's the only Python sketch I ever hated.

[(Anonymous)]

Well....can we have your liver, then?

[(Anonymous)]

It's the most self-indulgent of the MP movies, for sure. The only saving grace IMO is the church scene with the vicar (Michael Palin). I couldn't believe how much he sounded like my old parish priest.

I mean, take: "O Lord, you are so big, so absolutely huge. Gosh, we're all really impressed down here I can tell you." That's basically the Book of Common Prayer in a nutshell...

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[Picture is... God from the movie "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life"? He is holding up a spherical planet Earth and a cubic planet Earth. The sun or a halo is shining behind him. He is depicted as an old man with olive skin, a large bald head and long white hair, mustache and beard. He is examining both planets thoughtfully.]

I'm a huge fan of Monty Python, but I found this film painfully unfunny and depressing as fuck. I have literally no idea how anyone can laugh at the scene in the restaurant.

[littlestbirds]

As I kid I would watch this over and over. I don't think I understood all of it, I mostly liked the songs, but it probably had some kind of terrifyingly profound effect on me. In retrospect it is definitely a gross and disturbing film.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I loved Meaning of Life. It may be partly because I saw it a bunch of times on TV. The Galaxy Song!

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with the people who said the movie is gross and disturbing, but that's sort of one of the reasons it appeals to me. I guess I just have a fascination for twisted humor.

Also, I LOVE the music.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you a philsopher? ;)

I don't find it to be bleak or depressing. The scene with Eric Idle's waiter always lifts my spirits. I come away from the movie feeling BETTER about life.

[(Anonymous)]

Is the restaurant scene the one where Terry Jones eats till he explodes? Because that horrified me.

I thought the movie was alright (really hit and miss) in general though, it was like a polished version of other sketches they did before.

[(Anonymous)]

in total agreement about the restaurant scene, I don't even want to imagine how awful that must have been to shoot, too... yuck. It's more uncomfortable in general than the other movies (although amusingly so in some cases, I kinda liked the sex ed sketch cause it was so awkward)... it is depressing, but if you're in the right mood it can be a cathartic kind of depressing.

[(Anonymous)]

I love the movie, but I totally agree with you about the scene in the restaurant.

[manifold]

I didn't think this was such an uncommon opinion—I know at least two gigantic entire-seasons-memorized-verbatim Monty Python fans who seriously cannot stand The Meaning Of Life.

You don't have to love everything-no-exceptions to be a huge fan, OP. Pretty sure there has to be a Mr. Creosote Clause in the Official Fan Club Manual.

[amanuensis1]

Holy Grail is number one on my list of funniest movies of all time, I've seen the Flying Circus episodes probably a dozen times each, yet I find Meaning of Life to be one of the dullest, unfunniest things I ever experienced.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not highly (over)rated like Life of Brian, and it's not quoted constantly by 12 year olds like Holy Grail, so of COURSE some people don't like it.

I love it. It's absurdist in the best way, and it is VERY Gilliam. I honestly don't know which sketches I like more: Crimson Permanent Assurance, Every Sperm is Sacred, or the sex ed sketch. Monsieur Creosote really grosses me out, though.

[localfreak]

I hated that scene as well. Absolutely vile- they kind of used that, I felt, in a later comedy series (can't remember what it was called had David Walliams in?) and it is just grotesque; I really didn't find it funny at all.

Some of the songs in Meaning of Life were good though! I still like Life of Brian better.

[arcadiaego]

I think even Python would agree that it's not their best work. The bleakness is sort of the point, but I don't find that sort of thing funny personally.

[(Anonymous)]

John Cleese said in one interview that he didn't think it was their best work.

[darth_vader]

As an emetophobe, I cannot agree enough on the restaurant sketch. I still get the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it. :C