If you care for the history watch it!!!

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2006)

A loser called Brian is born on the same night as Jesus of Nazareth. He lives a parallel life with Jesus of Nazareth. He joins 'People's Front of Judea', a Jewish revolutionary party, against Romans and is confused as a messiah by the Jews and so is finally crucified. It seems 'Life of Brian' was banned in many countries like Netherlands etc. It's a very well made film and all the actors have done a wonderful job. Six actors have played 40 characters all together. Monty Python did not have enough money to release it so George Harrison released it because he didn't want to miss out on a Monty Python film. That's what I call art and that's whom I call an artist. He has done a cameo in the film though I could never identify him. Keith moon was supposed to play a small role too but he died just before that.
It's a very responsible cinema. I don't think it's a tight script or great film but just an entertainer with great message. It's so weird that behind all the buffoonery and laughter-riots there actually is a highly intelligent, politically correct cinema. Read all the books on Jesus and John the Baptist and Caesar and you can confuse yourself with 'truth' of Christianity. Watch this movie and you realize it was just the faith of a common man and political equations which created a cult which by accident became history and now can be summed up as Jesus of Nazareth. There are people standing in the middle of the market and talking incoherently and people are trying to make some sense out of it. It's not too difficult to identify these buffoons if you have attended religious meetings. It's sad that people need a messiah to tell them a simple truth 'Love your neighbors' and still they don't. This movie exposes the double standards of the religious people who think being religious is sufficient enough stone people to death.
Life of Brian is a daring film. I really wonder how only Christians can stand a clear cut spoof on their religion. Muslims cant even show Prophet in a serious film (refrence to 'The Message') forget about a character like 'Brian'. Of course there's no point in saying anything about Jews as far as religion is concerned and Hindus have become fanatics after the whole 'Babri Masjid' drama.
I really don't consider it a comedy film. It's a serious movie about the confused history of Christianity. It makes fun of us who killed innumerous people who unintentionally called the name of the god (Jehovah). It makes fun of the society where women were not eligible to cast a stone on culprits but they could be stoned to death by men. No wonder this film was banned after all it's difficult to take the responsibility of killing millions of people in the name of 'Jehova'. I think it deserves a 10 not because of art called comedy or movie making but because of human emotion called 'confidence' and attitude called kick-ass.