I Expected More

Rating: 5/10 (27 February 2015)

While I enjoy many of Monty Python's skits and love the Holy Grail, this film just didn't do it for me. There wasn't any non-stop laughter or extremely engaging or entertaining material. Their usual witty yet ridiculous arguments with genius thought processes were just not there. They had a lot of fun with speech impediments and nose jokes but they were really overdone and it grew tiresome after a while. They did a good job of not being too blasphemous or offensive (which surprised me given the subject matter) and focused most of their ridicule at large groups of people with terrible communication acting like lemmings while none of them have any idea of what is going on. It just wasn't very clever or intelligent as their other humor. The alien scene (which was completely unexpected) really brought the overall film and appearance down which had been good till that point with the impressive rugged ancient filming locations and sets. I thought the stoning scene was the best, with other good ones like the grammar Roman (like a grammar Nazi), price haggling, and the excellent argument against transgenders and their struggle against coping with reality. It wasn't bad but it was nothing to gloat over, not nearly Monty Python's best work, and nothing worthy of the top 250 list.