Dead-on accuracy

Rating: Null/10 (6 November 2007)

Over the last thirty years, I've noticed that this film vs their earlier film "The Holy Grail" is debated like Woody Allen's earlier films vs "Annie Hall" and later. It's the Olde silly/slapstick vs the cerebral debate. Holy Grail is fun, and has a ton of wonderful commentaries on culture, history, multiple-realities, AND debunks everything humans create...yet it somehow comes off as sillier than Life of Brian. They are BOTH worth seeing. Let the nitpicking come to an end! The Monty Python Flying Circus television show, which was broadcast via PBS here (1969-74), must have kept them exhausted, and "Grail" came at the end of this era. Certainly, the production values are better in "Brian", and the Python gang was motivated enough to come BACK together to make it which could only mean they were older, wiser, and perhaps more focused than before. I refuse to choose. I own them both, and I laugh with amazement at the both of them each and every time. However, "The Life of Brian" is SO dead-on accurate, and SO equality minded when pointing out the foolishness of religions, bureaucracy, politics, social norms, political correctness, activists, and society in general, it leaves no one unscathed, unbattered, or able to restrain themselves from gut busting laughter while admiring the insights of these men.