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When the passengers are turned upside down, as in the double spiral of the Python at Busch Gardens in Tampa, Fla., the old saw "My heart was in my throat" is hardly appropriate: the feet are where the throat ought to be. As for the heart -it is on its own. Most unnerving of all are the giant loops on such rides as the Screamin' Demon at Kings Island, the Turn of the Century at Great America near San Francisco, and King Kobra at Richmond's Kings Dominion...
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...
...horrible that he is capable of turning a man's teeth white overnight. And the story of a cooper's young apprentice, filled with enthusiasm for modern ways, who finds the medieval city no more interested in him than his native village, is serviceable enough?especially as Python Michael Palin plays...
Tonight, Monty Python and the Holy Grail at 6 and 9:05, The Groove Tube at 7:45 and 10:35. Friday and Saturday, Sleeper at 4:30 and 9:05 and Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex at 5:55 and 10:30. Sunday, Godfather II at 8, Take the Money...
...matter how high the brow or how low, Monty Python Live! creases it with jet-propelled mirth...