MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE (1983)

Reprise | 107 mins | Age recommendation: 14+

By Terry Jones, with Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.

The group's last feature film with Graham Chapman, THE MEANING OF LIFE, is a sketch film tied together as a study of the perilousness and absurdity of human existence – a description that doesn’t do justice to how funny it is. There is blood, sex and violence, and some of the most surreal passages of any Python work, on the topics of birth, death, and all the bothersome business of living in-between. It comes across visually as a mix of Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman and Busby Berkeley – with projectile vomiting! But the film's innate message is simple and sweet: We are all miracles of birth, so why not be nice to all the other miracles of birth out there.

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