Always look at the bright side of film...

Rating: 10/10 (13 October 2004)

This is it: the definitive unbeatable comedy of all times. The British Monty Python's Flying Circus with their vision of the average life in Palestine about the year 34 B.C. gives an insight to everything history books try to hide. And: It is a brilliant outstanding satire on organised religion without hurting religious feelings of the audience. Oh yes, it would have been very easy to do some kind of a Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker-parody on classics as "The 10 Commandments" or "The Greatest Story Ever Told". But the Pythons never went that way, they invented their own vision of a sandal-opera in the time of Jesus Christ. With a Pythonesque Pilate, a friendly centurio organizing a crucification, an important roman called Biggus...erm, yes, you know, what I mean. And of course with one of the biggest songs ever in a comedy. So all please whistle now: "Always look at the bright side of life..."