Prepare to laugh out loud

Rating: 10/10 (28 May 2005)

What can one say? This movie just gets funnier every time you see it. I think it's by far the Python group's finest effort, and the one most likely to stand the test of time. I know it was lambasted as sacrilegious by the Christian Right, and the Jewish Right too (for its cynical treatment of the Judean resistance groups), but those people never did have any sense of humor. In fact there's no disrespect shown to the teachings of anybody's religion. I lived not far from the "mount" of the Sermon on the Mount (in America it would be only a "hill"), and the scene of onlookers at the back of the crowd not quite able to hear, and having their own personal encounters, just fits the actual layout perfectly. This is a movie you can watch every year or two, with the same companions or different ones, and enjoy that special release of a good belly laugh.