Even funnier than "Excalibur"

Rating: 10/10 (17 October 1998)

One of the most outlandishly inventive modern additions to the King Arthur mythos, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is either the funniest movie ever made or the most gruesome form of torture ever devised; some people scream with laughter from its (wonderful) opening credits to its stunningly abrupt ending, while just as many others sit there stone-faced. I had the distinct pleasure of watching "Grail" with a friend who absolutely hated every minute of it, and this, of course, made all the jokes that much funnier for me. The Criterion Collection laser disc is highly recommended, with an audio track devoted to the very amusing recollections of co-directors Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones.