Woodyanders
Okay, so this typically madcap and irreverent Monty Python romp doesn't actually answer the major existential question posed by the title, but that quietly simply doesn't matter considering how delightfully brash, rude, and outrageous this movie often is. The humor ranges from crude to surreal to super dry and deadpan, with a majority of the gags scoring bull's eyes. Among the more inspired and uproarious sketches are the amazing opening short in which a bunch of oppressed elderly white office workers revolt against their employers, the grim reaper crashing a posh party, the infectiously jaunty "Galaxy Song," a grotesquely obese man literally puking gallons of vomit at a fancy restaurant, a live man having his liver gruesomely removed, a teacher wearily demonstrating sex to his bored and disinterested students, and, most sidesplitting of all, the positively gut-busting "Every Sperm is Sacred" song and dance number. John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, and Graham Chapman are all in fine form. An absolute riot.
guedesnino
Directed in 1983, by Terry Jones co-creator and member of the comedy company Monty Python, the English group employs to the film a division in "sketches" somewhat common the television humorous series, and that during the film is explained through the acid humor , Its division is due to the inability of the public to follow a long and continuous history without commercial breaks or that does not introduce throughout history violence, sex explicit or anything else stupid to the point of being censored and provoke controversy enough to take people Of the screen of a TV and to arouse the interest of going to see a movie in the cinema.This sour, debauched, witty and playful tone will be present in all divisions and sub-divisions of "The Meaning of Life," yet the script will be careful enough to create connections between stories which is done very simply and Effective, and with great humor.The film is divided into about eight chapters: The Miracle of Birth; Growth and Learning; Fighting each other; Middle-age; Liver organ transplants; The Autumn Years; The meaning of life; Death - and when these frames connect the effect is even more fun.At the same time, the use of "sketches" allows a dynamic and propensity to encourage the audience to stick with moments and images that interest them the most, the opposite is also true if we have a brilliant opening with metaphors and that today (2017) envisions traces of foresight of our future, where the world abolishes the labor system through labor (like the old slaves of the building that sails in the economic sea), to live a financial economy and actions. If this opening frame is mastered and will be device for linking to another chapter, stories like the English army, are ineffective for any analysis of the film. They do not corroborate in any way, and the impression that it causes, is to be an instrument of relief for a previous joke more complex, intellectualized and consequently respire for those who do not understand or for those who are still reflecting. This gap between intellectual laughter and easy laughter will be presented at other times with the same effect.A memorable moment appears in the chapter, the autumn years, specifically in the "sketche": "The Autumn Years," in which a monstrously fat Mr. Creosote eats wildly and when he receives a small piece of chocolate, he explodes. Something that for us Brazilians is very familiar when we remember Mrs. Redonda, emblematic character created by Dias Gomes for the telenovela "Saramandaia", whose end of the character is the same as that of Mr. Creosote.There are many good moments in the 1983 film, my favorite is that of a group of pompous dinner guests who are interrupted by the visit of the "Death" (Grim Reaper), in short, everyone who is there will die and when asked why Of so many deaths at a dinner, behold the answer is due to a simple salmon mousse, and the climax comes from the comment of a lady (Michael Palin), who with his unpretentiousness says: "I did not even eat the mousse." This speech is supposed to have been improvised, and because it is so well used it provokes laughter, carries a subtlety that assists in the inquiry not only of the motive of death, but also in the sense of life, where there is no apparent meaning, everything is mere Conditions that are mostly caused by the desire of man.In the quest to answer the philosophical title which is also the main argument of "The Meaning of Life," we realize that in the end the answer is less interesting compared to the pleasurable process in attempting to answer it. Perhaps the answer of some sense, is the way of the (eternal) search.
preppy-3
Movie is basically a bunch of short sketches that purport to show the meaning of life (They don't). It opens with a laugh less and stupid 20 minute short about an insurance company being run by pirates. From then on it doesn't change much. About 90% of the sketches have no laughs in them at all and are just pointless. There are some bright spots--The "Every Sperm is Sacred" song and dance is cute; John Cleese teaching his students about sex with his wife is funny; the Zulu war bit was amusing; the liver organ donor sketch was VERY bloody but funny and a visit from Death at the end was clever. However there's a sketch about an incredibly obese man visiting a restaurant and constantly vomiting over everybody and everything. It's not funny...just sick. Also that comes towards leaving a bad taste (sorry) for the film as a whole. Python fans might want to take a look but you can safely stay away from this one.
