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Rating: 10/10 (22 September 2006)

If I was stranded on an island, I would not take this movie. Why do I mention this? Because I don't need it. I could act this movie out, by myself mind you, from start to end. There have been times when I was bored when I have recited the majority of this movie in my head. I'm not going to tell you that any of the actors in this film are great. I'm not going to tell you that any of the people involved in this movie are good at any part of making movies. The Monty Python group made a number of productions, several of which I own, but the rest pale in comparison to this masterpiece. I view this as a collection of superb individual skits that happen to form a "story." Each is so insanely hysterical that I can hardly believe that anyone had it in their mind to create it. From the banter between the French and the "silly English kanigits," the rational of the "scientists," to the mind boggling use of coconuts to simulate the sounds of a horse and other low-budget props make this movie an absolute classic. Not too much makes me laugh anymore. It brings a smile to my face just thinking about how ridiculously funny this movie is. If it isn't in your home collection, your mother must be a hamster and your father must smell of elderberries.