Bloody Awful!

Rating: 1/10 (3 May 1999)

I just don't get it. I'm a hard core Fawlty Towers fan and a Brit, but I find nothing funny about this film. The rabbit scene near the end of the movie was the only thing that made me chuckle.
Michael Palin was wonderful in his travel documentaries "Around the World in 80 Days" and "Pole to Pole", and John Cleese was perfect as Basil Fawlty, but put these two in a Monty Python film and you get no return on the investment. I have a wicked sense of humour and I have tried and tried to find something funny in all of the Python films, but I have yet to have a real good laugh.
I wonder sometimes if there's an "emperor's clothes" type of mentality surrounding these movies; I'll pretend to like it so as I'll belong to the "I get it club". The humour in this movie is not intelligent - I work as a high school teacher and I am certain that the "knuckle head" students in my class would completely enjoy this film. Sure, the movie is full of jokes with historical relevance: feudalism, pre-enlightenment science, etc., but these don't make for an "intelligent" film - simple childish humour. In the same way as I don't find junior high school toilet jokes funny anymore, I think I have left it too late to appreciate the humour of the Holy Grail.
I rented this movie completely on the recommendations of the user's comments on this site - a complete waste of money. Your $3.50 would be better spent on some Fawlty Towers re-runs.