Comedy at its most ingenious ... utterly hysterical

Rating: 10/10 (17 December 2005)

This is the movie that started it all for me (my Monty Python obsession anyway). It's full of the humor that I love best. It's 25% crude, 25% "British", 25% satirical, 25% slapstick and 100% Monty Python. The tag line says it all: "Makes Ben Hur look like an epic." "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is Monty Python's classic humor at its best and definitely most amusing. How can you not laugh at the truly witty and ingenious humor and at the hilarious characters? Many people who watch this are promptly struck with severe cases of what I like to call "Monty Pythonitis", an extremely contagious disease where the person enjoying "Monty Pythonitis" (yes, enjoying) finds themselves waking up in the middle of the night yelling "NI! NI! NI!"; laughing uncontrollably at words like "shrubbery" and "swallow" and then running off and reciting most of the movie to their extremely bored friends. Yes, this movie is that good.
Granted, not everyone will enjoy this movie. I've watched a ton of times with friends and while I'm laughing at the Knight's Who Say NI, they're like, "What's so funny about this again?" But for those of us who absolutely enjoy the sort of twisted, satirical, slapstick, British humor that is Monty Python, this is a MUST. A hilarious 10/10.