And Now For Something Completely Different (1971 film)

There used to be an independent video rental store down the road from where I live (back before DVDs became popular where I lived) where you could rent 5 movies for 5 days for 5 bucks (you can't find deals like that anymore!) and as Monty Python And The Holy Grail was a new favorite I found this film And Now For Something Completely Different there and it was an instant favorite to rent along with a then rare "Weird Al" film UHF (along with three other films not on the new-release-wall). It was such an innocent memory of a conflicted time for universally personal reasons (I was a teen). I immediately realized it was technically the funniest movie ever made. It was one of the rare films that is truly a laugh a minute (or sometimes very often more)! You immediately see the gifts of Cleese and Palin working together, but the success of the "Parrot Sketch/Lumberjack Song" was a curse on them to draw attention away from equally hysterical moments. The partnerships seem to work so interchangeable well.
Eric Idle and Michael Palin in "The Marriage Counselor Sketch"
to John Cleese and Palin in "Vocational Guidance Counselor Sketch"
to Terry Jones and Cleese in "The Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook Sketch" (which is very improved upon from the tv series version of the sketch),
to Terry Jones and Idle in the "Nudge Nudge" sketch.
and of course Graham had many great parts usually as the Colonel breaking up scenes that "got much too silly" and the Terry Gilliam animation segue ways.
Five of the six worked supremely well together in the "Restaurant Sketch" with Graham Chapman as the diner, Carol Cleveland as his date, Terry Jones as the waiter, Michael Palin as the head waiter, Eric Idle as the manager, and John Cleese as MUNGO ("YOU VICIOUS HEARTLESS BASTARDS"). Oh how even though I have every sketch on the the original tv show DVD set I would love to dig this movie up and watch it for old times sake.
Of course any great artist, comic or otherwise, will have too many classics that can be put in a single collection (at least those who are so idolized as the Pythons are). There's no Spanish Inquisition "well I wasn't expecting one" and this time you don't have any. There's no Ministry of Silly Walks, no Argument Clinic, no Architect Sketch and many others but that's for another time. You could just get the tv series or perhaps slowly work your way up to it by banking or insurance or getting The Final Rip Off (album) or Monty Python Live At The Hollywood Bowl (film) but I'm partial to this film as an introduction to the world's greatest tv series ever!