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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...
...Monty Python Live! the operative word is "live," for almost all of the routines have been seen before on American TV. Fortunately, they are unkillably hilarious even in repetition. Since the performers understandably need to catch their breath, film clips share equal billing with the live players' stage antics. When John Cleese delivers a diatribe to a shyster pet-shop owner while flogging the dead parrot that has been sold to him, the funning is lethally potent. So is the spoof on TV wrestling, in which the solo performer, Graham Chapman, is finger-jabbed and pretzel-twisted...
...matter how high the brow or how low, Monty Python Live! creases it with jet-propelled mirth...