One of the best comedies of all time

Rating: 9/10 (5 September 2016)

The story line of this movie is a bit simple; King Arthur travels the country to find knights who will join him at the Round Table in Camelot. Sir Bedevere, Sir Lancelot, Sir Robin and Sir Galahad are introduced in the story one by one. When the party is about to enter Camelot King Arthur decides that Camelot is a silly place and they almost disassemble but then God appears and send them on a sacred quest: to find the Holy Grail. After every knight goes on an individual adventure,they are reunited to face different perils, a wizard, a killer rabbit, yes a killer rabbit, (photo) isn't it adorable? a monster with many eyes... Their quest comes to an end when the police intervene, yeah, the police, modern police. Strange, isn't it? specially for a movie set in tenth century England. But the most important thing in this movie isn't the plot, or the historical inaccuracies, which are always few and very calculated in Monty Python's productions, the important thing is the comedy. Monty Python is comedy, period. Intelligent, acid, sarcastic British humour. Some could say that the jokes are silly but that apparent simpleness hides the most incisive and scathing humour. Like in other Monty Python works, some of the jokes conceal political content, often to ridicule the anti-establishment movements repeating their hackneyed slogans out of context. Can you imagine tenth century peasants demanding their constitutional rights? For all that and more Monty Python and the Holy Grail is one of the best comedies of all times.