Cinematography:
Brett TurnbullCast:
John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman (a.f.), Carol Cleveland, Mike Myers, Stephen Hawking, Eddie Izzard, Brian Cox (more)Plots(1)
The reunion of the Monty Python team for a series of live performances at the O2 in London was the most eagerly anticipated comedy event of the year. The first date to be announced sold out all 20,000 tickets in an astonishing 43 seconds. More dates were steadily added eventually culminating in 10 sold out shows. Monty Python is the most influential comedy act of all time and the shows are an all-singing, all-dancing spectacular of classic sketches and songs, some of them given a new, contemporary twist. (Eagle Rock Entertainment)
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There were too many dance numbers for my taste and the only really good (or even great) one was accompanied by the song “I Like Chinese". Otherwise, I think the Pythons dancers were just disrupting the whole presumably breakup show (and unfortunately not in that successfully anarchic way). But it was a great show. Unlike other disappointed people, I was not expecting an avalanche of new sketches, but was looking forward to the proven ones and was curious to see what the gentlemen would do with them (or what the sketches would do with the gentlemen). There were a lot of great moments, the Pythons were also poking fun at each other (Palin and Idle about Cleese's divorces, Cleese and Jones about Palin's travel guides...) and in the scene with the parrot they took on the critics. If there was anything I liked less than a lot, it was probably just the Bruces, who somehow lacked energy. And I was really disappointed by the absence of one crucial character - the knight with the plucked chicken. Four and a bit. Hopefully the DVD will come out.
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