Comedy AND a chance to p**s off Xians!

Rating: 10/10 (6 October 1999)

I was in high school in Oklahoma when Life of Brian was first released, and had to cross a picket line full of rabid Baptists to actually get into the theater. That alone was one of my defining moments, when it really hit home how easy it is to get amazingly large numbers of people to do incredibly stupid things. And that was BEFORE seeing the movie, which, in case you're still wondering, is more a satire on those folks picketing, instead of the J-man. Like Proctor & Bergman say, "Give them a light, & they'll follow it anywhere."
Unlike Holy Grail, this movie actually has continuity (although if that bothers you, there's still the completely gratuitous spaceship scene), which only makes it funnier. When my niece grows up enough to ask me about religion, I'll show her this movie & she'll know all she needs to know.