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...Brian R. Gilliam, a Quincy House tutor, said yesterday the new machine is "marvelous," adding that most of the Quincy House residents he had spoken to preferred the new brand of coffee over that of the old Minutemaid machines...
...Terry Gilliam is one of the Monty Python crowd, and Jabberwocky, despite a title and some quotations borrowed from Lewis Carroll, is, in some respects, a continuation of what was so brilliantly begun a couple of years ago in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Once again the setting is the Middle Ages. Once again the medieval world is seen as all ignorance, blood and excrement. Once again chivalry and romance are viewed as aristocratic conceits designed to make an ugly epoch palatable to the more delicate sensibilities of the time?and to latter-day observers of history...
...which Jabberwocky differs from the earlier film. That is in its almost total lack of humor. The fecund inventiveness, the marvelous pace and timing of Grail, the curious blend of earthiness and delirium that gave it its unique place in the history of modern screen comedy, are missing in Gilliam's work...
...Gilliam finds it impossible to sustain, let alone develop anything like a consistent comic tone. In the end, the director is mostly making dour social commentary on the society he invented. He is never able to connect it either with our own or with the historical period that apparently inspired...
Textures and Details. Gilliam has issued a statement urging people not to compare his movie with the Pythons' work, gibbering on about "textures" and "details," calling Bruegel and Bosch to his side as witnesses to the truth of his vision. But Jabberwocky is not a grand enough failure to sustain such comparisons. It really is marked-down Pythonism, which proves that in enterprises of this sort, several heads are better than one. Richard Schickel