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...aware of the Ministry of Silly Walks. College students are finding new meanings for the word stupid, and old ladies may even be getting ideas about beating up kids. What is this pernicious influence, bordering on a cult, that is now sweeping the U.S.? The word is Monty Python. Five roopy young Englishmen, who methodically take the world apart each week in a series of sketches mysteriously called Monty Python 's Flying Circus, have conquered the U.S. air waves. The Pythons are getting the kind of following that a presidential candidate might envy. They are the hottest TV import...
...success has spoiled Monty Python--this movie was made before it became the Rowan and Martin of the mid-seventies--but something's done it. Probably just a silly decision to concentrate on a single plot, making the whole hour and a half seem like one extended joke that very quickly loses its savor. Monty Python's best routines have often been its shortest, and the longer ones--like "The Piranha Brothers" and "Fairy Tale"--were very often the only losers on their records. And Now for Something Completely Different was extremely funny, leaping from skit to skit without worrying...
...painful for a Monty Python fan like myself to continue describing the nadir of its enorts. When only a couple of the group's albums were available and the first TV shows went on the American air, it seemed as if the group's standards were pretty high. Now even the dregs are being shown on TV. distributed to movie theaters, put on new records, and even printed in books (incidentally, these books--Monty Python's Big Red Book and Papperbok--are not abysmal but contain only a few new things, and these items are really only likely to amuse...
...Monty Python's And Now For Something Completely Different. Friday and Saturday...
...Something Completely Different. Monty Python finally reached respectability this week, with a two-page spread in Newsweek. Apparently a second Monty Python movie, called Monty Python and the Holy Grail, is showing in Los Angeles, but if you're not going to LA for spring break you'll have to settle for this superb, incredibly funny film. Channel 2 has started showing Monty Python TV episodes and they've been phenomenally successful in the ratings, outdrawing even "Upstairs, Downstairs," so it looks like Dennis Moore and Mr. Verity and the Man From The Cat Detector Van will be around...