Funniest moment on film

Rating: Null/10 (21 October 2004)

This film spirals from one laugh out loud moment to another, but the funniest of them all, and one that must strike a chord with everyone sentenced to learning Latin at school, must be the 'dog Latin' lesson given by Cleese's Centurion to Brian after he has painted his 'Romans Go Home' slogan in the town centre. It's 25 years since I saw this at the cinema with the lady due to be my wife, and I still cry with laughter. She doesn't. I think I'm right in saying that the Python team had a fairly limited budget to work to, but this doesn't matter in the end, as it simply makes the individual performances stand out, unlike modern films where the actors sometime seem to be simply assisting the CGI star. This was the Python's at their creative peak, a luscious swan song of anarchic comment and comedy, and one that prevents the bad taste in the mouth from the later 'Meaning of Life'.