First let me say it's funnier than it's posters imply. Secondly it has Eric written all over it. Of course it was written by Eric so that explains it. Lewd irreverent behavior all throughout it in the typical PG-13 Hollywood marketable kind of way but cleverly done so. I thought I would find the gold digging humor unbearable and John Cleese being an unwelcomed ham stealing everybody's else's scenes (Let me make it clear I hold unfair resentment to John Cleese for having more success than my favorite Python members). But watching it with a bias against the two most famous Pythons I still couldn't dislike it in fact I loved it of course Eric was one of the reasons I was drawn to the Pythons in the first place. And one of Eric's great jumping points in his comedy is the unfair effect of wealth and power, especially in one's sex life. And John plays the slimy conniving looney lawyer as only he could (or probably Michael Palin). Wondering what could of made this movie bomb I was dumbfounded. It had plenty of quotable lines ("People were sex mad in the 60's apparently doing it just for fun"), great stars with then currently successful comic actor Rick Moranis (Honey I Shrunk The Kids, Little Shop Of Horrors) and a safe rating in the states. Oh well I got it at a great price at a local used DVD store and waited awhile to watch it and wondered why I waited so long and even my sister enjoyed it and she's gotten less into quirky humor in recent years but is still Python fan but not the fanatic I am, sort of the John and Eric group of fans who love their more conventional work, whereas I love Terry Jones and Michael Palin the best, well to be specific here is how it breaks down
Best writers: Michael Palin, Terry Jones
Best performers: Michael Palin, Graham Chapman
Best performing duo: Michael Palin, John Cleese
Favorite masterminds leadership sort of personalities: Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle
Cambridge Vs Oxford: Oxford wins
(And I still thought this movie was hilarious!)
