
"Everyone knows the glorious story of a child born in a far away manger. Well this isn't that story. This is Monty Python's, The Life of Brian."
Voted the greatest comedy film of all time by British, Total Film Magazine in 2000 and again by UK's channel 14 in 2006, The Life of Brian is a religious satire that pokes fun not at religion but the mindless masses that often follow it. The troop has a go at Roman history, Latin language lessons, Christ as an alien prophet, and even address gender identity issues.
Brian is a boy born a few doors down from Jesus and spends his life being mistaken for the Messiah. As a baby Brian is visited by three wise men who come bearing gifts for the "child king", one of which is mistaken for a bomb ("Who'd want to give a baby a bomb?!). The gifts are immediately taken away and the wise men leave in a huff when they discover that he is not the baby they were searching for.
Later in his life, while trying to escape from Roman soldiers, he pretends to be a religious prophet and, even though he does a pretty terrible job of it, finds himself chased by a group of religious fanatics who insist that he perform miracles and healings.
Eventually Brian is even cruicified. Of course you can always count on the Monty Python troop to remind us, even while being crucified, to "always look on the bright side of life!"
love your movie selection. mighty pythons really funny group of silly guys. i always thought of them as the british saturday night live bunch. this is for sure a best worst movie ever.
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