I grew up with Monty Python in my early teens. It was the only topic of conversation at school the day after an episode was on TV. Watching each episode with my older brother had us both rolling around on the floor in helpless laughter. The parrot sketch, the cheese shop sketch, the accountant sketch. All timeless classics. And then there is this monumentally unfunny drivel. What on earth were my heroes up to? Were they deliberately cocking a snoop at the film world by making an awful movie on purpose? That is the only explanation that I can come up with. I sat bored to my bones all the way through the office worker sketch praying for it to finish. The torture lasted almost a quarter of an hour. By then I had lost the will to live. The relief of this repetitive, unfunny garbage finishing was short lived as it was followed by a baffling and equally drab sketch consisting of a group of surgeons. I could stand no more of this utter tripe and reached for the stop and delete button. I found it very harrowing watching this puerile nonsense from my boyhood idols. Perhaps there were better bits later in the movie but if they want viewers to continue watching they need to make a better effort to grab the audience from the start. Just what they thought was remotely amusing about showing an office manned by 80 something men was way beyond me. ,
Review of The Meaning of Life
