Unebelievable

Rating: 10/10 (6 April 2008)

This film is a standard parody at the outset. But what makes it different is not only its constantly funny parody/farce, is that most all of the film is funny. Most comedies will take a few minutes to set up a joke, for the sake of advancing the plot. MPTHG brilliantly integrates funny into the setup as well, making no dull moments at all. This is the type of humor that Monty Python pioneered, the kind of comedy that makes you wonder if the writers went over every inch of script with a fine-toothed comb mumbling "how can i put a good joke in here...". Basically, see this movie. It is the basis for many, many parodies and social satires, (the revered English comedy Blackadder uses some technique similar to it) and is pretty much the Citizen Kane of comedy.