Monty Python and the Holy Grail [Executive Version]

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review by: date: 2008-02-12 rating:
The Holy Grail of Comedy
Originally produced at a time before the advent of not only DVD but also video recorders, `Monty Python and the Holy Grail' was issued as a record for those people who wanted to enjoy it in the comfort of their own home. Python had had previous success with a series of albums based on their television shows and like with these they recorded a series of links to give the record purchaser the reassurance they had heard some Python not heard by the people whom only saw the film.

The links here are primarily based on an imagined premiere of the film and if truth be told are of such a lower quality that the film that it would have been better to omit them in favour of more dialogue from the film.

The Holy Grail's sketches are of a consistent quality and everyone is a success. Sketches such as the Black Knight, the Three Headed Knight, Tim the Enchanter and the Knights that say Nee are amongst the best sketches of not only Python lineage but of all time.

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review by: Matt Williams date: 2006-10-11 rating:
...we are now NO LONGER the knights who say ni!
We've had this CD on constant repeat in the car for the last month, ever since I introduced my 10 and 12 year old sons to the joys of Monty Python. It's going to be getting even more play for the next few weeks now that we've booked seats at the theatre to see it performed in Spamalot.

You'd expect us to tire of it after a while but actually you get to hear another funny dimension in their verbal delivery every time you play it, and something about Monty Python lends itself to repetition, it's so clever and funny.

Our most recent discovery, which made my 10 year old son fall about laughing, was when he noticed that when Sir Robin's minstrel is singing his song, just at the point when Sir Robin cuts him short he says a rude word.

Another line that I could carry on listening to forever is when Michael Palin says "...we are now NO LONGER the knights who say ni!".

What I would really like would be for The Album Of The Soundtrack Of The Trailer Of The Film Of Monty Python And The Holy Grail to be reissued on CD with more of the scenes still intact. It was originally cut short because it needed to fit onto a record, but now CD's have been invented they could at least add The Tale of Sir Galahad back in.

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review by: Chicken Hat Theater Improv date: 2005-07-07 rating:
The Executive CD Edition of the Monty Python Soundtrack
There was an actual need for the "soundtrack" album to "Monty Python & The Holy Grail," which allowed us to help memorize key bits of dialogue while waiting for the movie to finally be released on DVD (which was worth the wait just to have the LEGO version of the "Camelot" song). Now, of course, this album can serve as a companion to the original Broadway cast album for "Spamalot," the current hit musical inflicted upon the masses by Eric Idle on behalf of the Pythons.

To be clear, this soundtrack includes much more than what you heard in the original film. After all, this is the Executive CD Edition, a fact that you are reminded of at both the beginning and the end of each "side." Then, before the movie actually "starts" you have a tour of the classic Silbury Hill Theater and a live broadcast from the premier of the film, including a narration of the film's opening and the "You're Using Coconuts" routine. Then they finally shut up and get to the bits from the film. My favorite remains "King Arthur and the 'Old Woman': Lesson in Anarcho-Syndicated Commune," which I tried without success to work into several papers in graduate school. The episode involving "A Witch" is followed by a "Lesson in Logic," which proves, unless you are using intuition, that just because a woman weighs as much as a duck does not prove she is a witch. Not everything is here, with the encounter with the Black Knight being the most obvious omission. But you do have the songs for "Camelot" and "The Tale of Sir Robin," and the almost song from the sequence regarding Sir Lancelot at Swamp Castle.

There are intrusions from the Python gang throughout the album, including a "Bomb Scare" and "A Shakespearean Critique" provoked by the appearance of Tim, the Enchanter. None of these are as good as the sarcastic French soldiers at the "Castle of Louis de Lombard," the instructions for the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch from Armaments, Chapter 2, Verses 9 to 21, for dealing with "A Foul-Tempered Rabbit," and the exchange at the "Bridge of Death" that inspired the message on my brother's answering machine. Fortunately, now I have my DVD of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and can watch what I want, when I want, without resorting to this audio version. However, I must commend this album for sounding like the movie and not for sounding like a movie on a record, which is what we were saddled with in the old days.

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review by: feline1 date: 2005-02-23 rating:
Made me really squeek
In an age when you can buy the film on a deluxe DVD with 10 hours of extras and a free Norman castle, you might well be wondering: WHY ONE EARTH WOULD I WANT TO ALSO OWN THE ALBUM OF THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE TRAILER OF THE FILM OF MONTY PITHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (albeit, in the Executive Version)

Well here's why - cos it wisely covers over the more, erm, 'visual' aspects of the film with loads of hilarious extra audio material that's completely and utterly unavailable elsewhere.

Eric Idle's ludicrous 10 minute recap of the 'story so far' at the start of two is a work of genius ("...plucky Reginald Vas Deferens..."),
the film breaks down at one point as the projectionist is attacked by a ferocious grizzly bear,
and yet again when there's a bomb in the cinema.

But my *personal* favourite is when Michael Palin interviews Dr Chapman as a film director, who's "one of the film world's most screaming queens - I mean, not just 'gay' or 'homosexual', but a real screaming limp-wristed caricature, a real 'whoops! Get 'em! Don't mind me dear' gay-bar loiterer, and evil perverter of little boys...", whose new film stars Marilyn Munroe... who died 10 years ago. ("Are you *lying*?" - "No, but we did have to use a stand-in for some of the more *visible* shots") etc etc etc


review by: Meley date: 2004-05-25 rating:
Holy Ok!
This was not what expected! you may as well get the d.v.d or video. But i suppose cool for listening on the plane or a long boring journey. Sure to cheer you up!

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