Irreverence aimed at those in religion that deserve it, not God

Rating: 9/10 (14 November 2013)

It had to take a lot of effort to not be actually offensive to the religious in this film. No Christian need be offended unless they are looking for offense-as many are. Monty Python tred where few dare-and lived to tell the tale. It is a tale of a man that gets mistaken for the messiah.
Not too many people cite Life of Brian for its many interesting scenes which humorously parallel situations in everyday life but they ought to. A man who wants to have babies but can't because he is a man so he must settle for "the right to have babies". A pedant guard that is so caught up in grammar that he forgets his work. A hypocritical stoning. And it goes on and on. This one is actually funnier on the second or third viewing! But it's that ending that really takes the cake! It really wraps up the whole point of life and being a victim of circumstance-which so many of us know of.