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Rating: 7/10 (5 October 1999)

This one is mixed, the 'Bigus Dickus', space aliens and slave-running-away-from-the-gladiator-who-then-gets-a-coronary scenes are great. Love'em! And the old part about 'Get away from my juniper berry bushes' is a hoot also.
But some of it seemed rather forced, they made sure to stick the real Christ in there so as not to Really offend their audience, then preceded to hammer him the rest of the way. All well and good I suppose, as it IS a Python film we're talking about here...but this thing seems to run outta gas around half the way through; nowheres near as funny as Holy Grail or any one of a dozen good Fawlty Towers episodes.
Somehow I think Benny Hill could have pulled this off in a 20 minute skit and done just as good a job--but then that's me.
*** stars outta ****, nice try.