Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
R | 25 June 1982 (USA)
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Monty Python perform many of their greatest sketches at the Hollywood Bowl, including several from pre-Python days.

Reviews
Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
Sean Lamberger Talk about the perfect relationship between a comedy troupe at the top of their game and an audience that's precisely in-tune with them. The Pythons didn't have a long window of acceptance in the States, but they made the most of it with performances like this one. Uproariously funny, and even though I knew which skits were coming up just by the slightest bits of foreshadowing (and could telegraph them word for word in some cases) I was still laughing until it hurt. I think most of the California crowd was in pretty much the same place that night. An unbelievable performance that makes me really sad I never had a chance to see the Pythons live.
preppy-3 A recording of the infamous British group Monty Python performing at the Hollywood Bowl back in (I believe) 1981. For fans of the TV show this will be great. They redo all more famous bits from the show. Obviously the audience was full of fans judging from the thunderous applause that greeted the mare familiar ones. The movie starts right off with four of the guys singing "Sit On My..." and keeps going full blast. The best bits were the pope arguing with Michangelo about the painting of "The Last Supper"; Ministry of Silly Walks; two gay judges; the World Forum; crunchy frog; "nudge nudge wink wink"; buying an argument and the Lumberjack Song. Also during the church police sketch you see most of the cast cracking up and trying to cover it up. Unfortunately there are bad sketches like a man wrestling with himself; the "Urban Spaceman" song and the International Philosophy Game. Still the good outnumbers the bad. Don't miss the beginning when they poke fun at 20th Century Fox and MGM logos. Fans will love this. Others might not. I give it an 8.
sebbezw Well, you cant call this a movie. A show isn't a movie. But any normal person who likes to laugh must love this! When I first saw it, I laughed till' I choked. I mean, how can anything in comedy be better than the killing combination of John Cleese, Michael Palin and, probably the best of them, Eric Idle. All of the sketches would definitely been in a "Top 100 Best Comedy Scenes Ever" and I admire the actors to remember everything they're supposed to say, for example when Idle are going to a travel agency as Mr Smokestoomuch. If you see this scene, you are lucky if you not laugh yourself to death. It is almost unavoidable. But there are other great moments. In fact, practically everything in this "movie" would belong in a list like the Top 100 I mentioned before. You cant possibly have a favorite. It is impossible to select a favorite in this. Everything is excellent. How do you get such ideas as these?
Robert Morgan Most of the sketches and skits are adapted from ones shown on the TV show; there's little that's new, which is mildly disappointing. Good thing, then, that the MP troupe is so adept; familiarity seems to be the point, and allows fans to sit back and enjoy the film.A few parts drag- I wasn't too thrilled with the musical numbers, nor with the History of Slapstick.The most disappointing thing about this movie is a problem only for those who watch it on laserdisc; there are no chapter breaks, and side one ends abruptly -IN THE MIDDLE OF A SCENE-! This is quite disconcerting, and ruins the sketch.