It took God six days to create the heavens and the earth...and Monty Python ninety minutes to screw it up.
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
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Character
Comic, ironic, epic and cool.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
Who loves it, who doesn't
40 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Cartographers.
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Cast
- Terry GilliamVarious Roles
- Graham ChapmanVarious Roles
- John CleeseVarious Roles
- Eric IdleVarious Roles
- Terry JonesVarious Roles
- Michael PalinVarious Roles
- Carol ClevelandVarious Roles
- Simon JonesCedric
- Patricia QuinnMrs. Williams
- Judy LoeNurse #1
Crew
- Terry JonesDirector
- Graham ChapmanScreenplay
- Terry GilliamScreenplay
- Michael PalinScreenplay
- Peter HannanDirector of Photography
- Roger PrattDirector of Photography
- John Du PrezOriginal Music Composer
- Julian DoyleEditor
- John GoldstoneProducer
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Pairings
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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Both comic, ironic, cool.
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