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...MARRIAGE of artist and theme with great potential for blasphemous offspring--Monty Python's Flying Circus dive-bombs the New Testament. Sort of like Jesus Christ Superstar to the tune of "I'm a Lumberjack...
Visions of Christ silly-walking across the Sea of Galilee filled the minds of the troupe's fans, starved for new material ever since the release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail...
...faraway hillside, Christ is delivering the Beatitudes. At the fringe of the crowd, where they couldn't hear properly even if they weren't wrangling among themselves, are the Monty Python troupe, misunderstanding. Blessed are the cheesemakers? The Greek shall inherit the earth? "I wonder which one?" someone asks, planning already to ingratiate himself with this fortunate fellow...
That's the way things go in Monty Python's Life of Brian. The film is a send-up biblical epic recounting the biography of a chap born in the manger down the alley from the one people sing about each Christmas. Brian (Graham Chapman) is just a regular guy. He has a domineering mother, basically cowardly nature and no messianic complex whatever. But circumstances force him into contact with, among others, a lisping Pilate, an underground revolutionary group that spends more time in ideological debate than in overthrowing the Romans, and all sorts of people who think...
...excellent example of the movie's contempt for both taste and religion. Life of Brian is even now being protested by spokesmen for various pious groups. They are quite right to do so, for this is no gentle spoof, no good-natured satire of cherished beliefs. The Pythons' assault on religion is as intense as their at tack on romantic chivalry in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975). They are funny lads, but detest all formal systems of belief, all institutions: the political left and right, popular culture, motherhood, womanhood, homosexuality, conformity and nonconformity...