"Bring Up The Holy Hand Grenade"

Rating: 9/10 (27 February 2012)

From the time that Michael Palin comes hopping up to a castle pretending he's on a horse with his squire clapping a pair of coconut shells together to simulate hoof-beats until at another castle with John Cleese as Sir Lancelot being showered upon with human waste product by the French garrison, Monty Python And The Holy Grail is one long laugh riot. The Monty Python troupe has won fans in every corner of the globe with their brand of nonsensical absurd type of humor, the likes of which was touched on in this country by Rowan&Martin's Laugh In.
The troupe takes on the Arthurian legend and really all films with a medieval setting, things like Ivanhoe and Quentin Durward. Those original novels came from Sir Walter Scott and I often wonder what Scott would think of the Monty Python players taking apart the times he wrote about and certain paradigms from those times.
No use discussing a plot here, there really isn't any. It's just Palin gathering together some knights to help him find the Holy Grail of legend. Monty Python And The Holy Grail once seen and you will never look at an Arthurian piece again without thinking of the Python absurdities.