The boys from “Monty Python” bring us this truly hilarious film with some of their best sketches all redone. So, get ready for one of the wackiest and stupidest films you’ll ever see in your entire lifetime.
Normally, I give you a summary of the plot in this section but with “And Now For Something Completely Different” I can’t. It’s basically a feature length version of the television series “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”. In this we can sketches about how to defend yourselves from fruit, how to complain about a dead parrot to the shopkeeper who sold it to you less than half an hour ago, a television series where people are blackmailed, a competition to find the top upper-class twit of the year and much more.
All of the guys from the show are here. There is Graham Chapman (“Life of Brian”), John Cleese (“Clockwise”, “Rat Race”), Terry Gilliam (“Brazil”), Eric Idle (“National Lampoon’s European Vacation”), Terry Jones (“The Meaning of Life”) and Michael Palin (“Monty Python and the Holy Grail”) who are all hilarious. All of them play an array of crazy characters in the variety of sketches. Some even play more than one character in the same sketch.
From animation to live-action, to political, to racial, to sexual every aspect of humour is covered in this movie. It’s a shame that we didn’t get to see some of my favourite sketches. Where was “Confuse A Cat”? “The Cheese Shop”? “Pantomime Horse”? “The Prosthetic Nose Man”? I also wish that some of these sketches were new but they are just recycled. If you like the work of the guys from “Monty Python” but you’ve seen all the sketches before you’re not really missing out as the changes are absolutely tiny. However, if you’re unfamiliar with the franchise then this isn’t a bad place to start.