Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

backflipboy I was too young to know about the controversy surrounding "The Life Of Brian" when it was first released, but in my adult years I discovered that not everyone felt the same way I did about the film - their loss.Casting of the actors playing Monty Python cast was just about perfect from a visual point of view. The only issue I had was with the actor portraying Terry Gilliam not being able to fake an American accent effectively.There are so many shout outs to the way the Flying Circus series was made in this film to make it almost seem like the original cast had made it in the early '80's and it had gotten lost somewhere and recently found and broadcast.The irony of Stephen Fry portraying his particular character is outstanding.I laughed out loud a lot while watching this "mockudramedy" and I would have given it a 10 star rating if not for the aforementioned bad American accent.

schf seemed to gather an incredible amount of bad reviews on certain sites for some reason.The simple fact is its inventive funny stupid and against all that it actually has a point to make about free speech. The actors all very closely resemble their real life counter parts and play a stereotyped parody version of the pythons themselves. Eric is a money grabbing ******* ,cleese is basil faulty ,palin is super nice etc the film takes plenty of stupid asides and skews off on tangents for the sake of comedy. it is not a documentary /drama on the events of the time as some fans where expecting.Its a strange comedy hybrid where reality frequently takes a holiday and actors directly address the viewers .As a fan of the pythons and free speech i loved this so go watch

Joe I'm not going to get into the whole debate here over the "Life of Brian" which I'll leave to others. This docudrama is as it says at the start a re-imagining of the events & conversations that surrounded the Monty Python team before two of them stepped onto a late night talk show to discuss their controversial movie "Life of Brian".Film takes the basics surrounding the "debate" and slaps a thick coating of Monty Python comedy references into the mix. The two adversaries in the debate are painted in a bad light, so the program is biased but it's mostly all for laughs.Should take the show as an excuse to just relive the Pythoneseque humour. The program humourises the darker aspects the Pythons may have gone through (e.g. death threats) but at the end of the day they won the contest (the film is shown often on free-to-air TV in the UK and is widely regarded as one of the greatest comedies ever).Well acted, well scripted, you will enjoy it. A nice retelling!

castaway666 I'll keep this relatively short.Probably one of the best written comic scripts I've seen for many years.The acting was absolutely superb especially Darren Boyd's turn as John Cleese. It perfectly shows the absurdity of the censorship battles comedy had to endure thanks to groups including Mary Whitehouse and shows how far we've come in a short period of time.Most fans of MP know the outcome of this film and the problems with local council's bans with a recent lift of a ban only recently occurring.Recommend this to anyone who's a fan of well written comedy.