Scorched (2003 film)

This is the first real stretch of the Monty Python collection to be put on this blog, but it's the most recent film I've seen as I just rented it. Scorched was not written or directed by a Python and it only has one starring in it. Can you guess which one? If you said John Cleese congratulations you are not an idiot. I'm surprised (well not surprised but displeased) to find out this movie bombed at the box office. The six Pythons (five living currently) have kept busy in the the last 40 years but as a fan I wouldn't go so far as to say there is an over-saturation of Monty Python. After all, most of what is made the six is obscure and hard to find yet you can find very certain items (ie A Fish Called Wanda, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas) very very easily. Most people with less credentials can live a lot longer in the afterglow and with mediocre projects making larger sums of money (see Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, the Zucker Brothers). All I'm saying is why isn't the MP giving a fair chance to dominate the local DVD store. This film's credentials include a Coenesque comedy/crime plot with more mainstream humor, charming co-stars all around. John Cleese plays a venomous con artist who sells a bogus get rich quick set and although not nearly the main focus of the film is crucial to two of the subplots. Woody Harrelson tries to steal from John's safe deposit box and the adorably spunky Rachel Leigh Cook ("so you want to Jack with the Ripper") wants to egg John's mansion. John's character, Rachel's character and her brother/friend(?) are the only ones not immediately associated with the bank along with Alicia Silverstone's character's new boyfriend. The story revolves around basically four near-simultaneous bank robberies at the same bank branch in the same weekend, mostly by the tellers themselves. Each set of burglars gets away with a different stack of hundreds of dollars stored in the drawers, the safe, the ATM machine and of course the safe deposit boxes. The bank manager is such a douche you really revel in the fact each one gets away with it, sorry about the spoiler but I figured you could see where it was going. Everyone has there funny moments and even with the shortage of actual Python members it is the type of film to please MP fans at least those of the Fierce Creatures sort.