Blessed are the cheesemakers

Rating: 10/10 (22 November 2009)

If there's a sound of synchronised whistling coming from the direction of Golgotha (or the nearest football stadium), then it must be Saturday afternoon, about tea time, and Monty Python's greatest hour-and-a-half is upon us. Much less an attack on spirituality or even Jesus Christ than on small-minded religious bigotry, Life Of Brian emerged to charges of blasphemy from small-minded religious bigots - and joyous, life-affirming waves of laughter from everybody else: the Surgeon General should prescribe this film as an additional compound in the treatment of depression. While the climax offers an alternative to orthodox subservience in one divinely hummable eight-word phrase.