this is a FUNNY film

Rating: 8/10 (24 November 2000)

Where to begin?
I like this film. I have it on video and it one of the few that I can watch again and again and still be laughing. I think I first watched it when I was in my early years and found it funny that there was swearing (I was an impressionable child and found casual swearing amazingly funny).
It wasn't until I started University and I had (just) got over this phase that I happened to see the film in a sale. I thought I'd buy it just to lapse back to my childhood and see if it was funny. It was, and this time for entirely different reasons. The situation for a start. The fact that at the time of Jesus, there can be an ordinary person leading a normal life who happens to become 'famous' (for want of a better word) for all the wrong reasons.
Add to that, a few throw away lines and some excellent acting (Michael Palin in particular) and you have a film that is well conceived, written and performed (is that the right order?). With most films, I feel myself drifting away and sometimes lose what is going on. With this piece, I was (and still am) riveted from start to finish.
"Cheer up Brian, you know what they say..."