Word: grails
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail...
...tribute of shrubbery -something with "a nice layered effect"-before allowing Arthur and his party to pass. That, of course, only brings them closer to such perils as a murderous bunny rabbit who is improbably but effectively charged with defending a cave where a vital clue to the grail's whereabouts is located. Bunnies indeed are much on the Python group's mind. One of the stratagems that the heroes devise to gain access to the French castle is a Trojan rabbit. It does not work out, but then not much else does either...
Along with the high comedy, this determined insistence on the gory stupidity of ancient but still potent fancy is what holds the film together. Grail is as funny as a movie can get, but it is also a tough-minded picture - as outraged about the human propensity for violence as it is outrageous in its attack on that propensity...