I hated this the first time too.

Rating: 9/10 (8 May 2002)

I saw there were a couple people that watched this once and hated it. When I first watched it, I was about 17. My younger brother was watching it and just cracking up. I thought it was boring and never even bothered to watch all of it. What is weird is that I even liked the flying circus and watched it all the time, but this movie was just, "BLAH"
A few years later I was in a remote area for a year (Yosemite National Park) and there was nothing to do at night except watch TV if you had one. One night the local bar had a "Locals Only" party and the Holy Grail was the feature. "DAMN, not that again" I thought. But I got there and everyone was hysterical and reciting the entire movie. I think something I missed before finaly stuck and I realized what a great movie this was. If you saw it once and hated it, find a bunch of friends that liked it, get a big party going and have a blast. That might show you what it is all about. Although it is good when you are alone, it is soo much better with friends.
Yes I do now own this on VHS along with other python movies but when I got a DVD player, this was the one I bought. Meaning of life, Life of Brian, "...and now for something completely different..." are also good but Holy Grail just has something there that the others are missing. Maybe they were more serious with the others or something, but the Grail is now on my top 10 movies list.