I'm Going to Hell, I Think

Rating: 9/10 (19 March 2004)

It is my fervrent hope that God has a sense of humor: I would hate to think all of us who saw and roared at this film are bound for some inner circle of Dante's inferno.
Like the Marx Brothers, the plot and the acting in a Monty Python movie are beside the point; what matters is the zinging of jokes and the presentation of sight gags. When well done, as here, there is not a moment when you can think of something potentially funny that the movie does not do - with the exception of the animated alien sequence which sends a chunk of the film crashing to earth with the flying saucer.
But the movie's laughs more than make up for that little lapse: the lone voice of dissent when Brian tells the masses that they are all individuals; the crowd's wise conclusion that Brian's mother is a virgin, the crucifiction scene that manages to mock both Spartacus and every Christ story ever, the lisping Pilate, the People's Front of Judea - or is it the Judean People's Front....