The Reel Rejects - MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) IS HILARIOUSLY RANDOM! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:05 Thank you to Shopify for sponsoring this video. More on them in just a bit. Aaron, I've overstayed my welcome as always. So we're going to get right into this bad boy, the shorty. Let's get into, where is it? Here we go. Let's get it up on the screen here. All right, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Starting point is 00:01:28 Commencing in a three, a two, and a one. We're still on this. What is going on? This is such an appropriate ending to this movie, though. You got to admit. It was a random-ass movie. There's no credits either. It's just blank.

Starting point is 00:01:50 We got the credits. I think they're doing the length of time the actual credit. would be that would make sense this is a long bit if you good dog yeah it's just brilliant when you really think about it oh my god is the length of time in actual credits would be what like seven to 12 minutes or whatever that we actually let me see I'm tempted to just see if there's how okay 13 seconds oh my god I almost shouldn't have done that we had like seven seconds left. We're so close.

Starting point is 00:02:27 I should have just let it go for seven more seconds. Okay. That's the ending of the movie. I wonder how long people, I'm so, I want to know in the comments section, if you saw this movie in theaters, what were you thinking and at any, like, well, I guess once you hit the tone of this film, you had to know, like, okay, this is just part of the ending for sure. Like, nothing is wrong with the projection.

Starting point is 00:02:51 The music's going. We know that this has to be in tone. or did you think something was wrong? Either way, that was Monty Python and the Holy Grail. If you were watching on YouTube, please hit the subscribe button. Don't forget to like, but most importantly, ring that bell so you can get notified. Whenever we try to. When new videos are coming out.

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Starting point is 00:03:33 you guys a great amount you are the mvPs over here and also if you're listening to us on apple or spotify if you don't mind giving us a five star rating we would appreciate you five stars not three but five i know the hand grenade says three but five please all right all right uh we're going to get to the questions in a moment uh as we mentioned at the top to the intro rather. If you become a royal reject, you can kind of guide the review portion here. We shout you out individually, ask us some questions, and we will do the best of our abilities to answer them, but we're just going to give our quick thoughts here before answering these

Starting point is 00:04:12 questions. Erron, my real roomie, what did you think of Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Did it live up to all the hype you were told your entire life as a cinephile? uh it's definitely not at all what i was expecting it is obviously within the spoof satire genre and very different from other sort of spoofs and satires that i've seen but still funny nonetheless uh the comedy mostly hit for me there were parts of it where it did miss but i will say that for this movie being 50 50 years old this year i think it largely still holds up and a very

Starting point is 00:04:54 funny and clever you had dumb some times kind of a rambling of bits and segments over a loosely strung together plot but fun nonetheless yeah I enjoyed myself

Starting point is 00:05:13 it's fun it was we had fun we had fun do you remember what movie that bit started by the way that started in battleship battle ship yeah i knew right when i said it i said i know erin so well he's he's gonna know this you're you're right it did yes go check out that reaction do you have any other quick thoughts um not as of right now but yeah man what do you think how you feeling i really enjoy you know i was as i have been since the day it happened i i was thinking of my dad a good amount like i would have

Starting point is 00:05:46 as much as i had loved watching it with you and reacting to it in front of you guys i also would have loved to have watched this with my dad. This is so up his alley with the humor and I, because I have a very great amount of the humor that my father had was instilled into me. So there was definitely a lot I appreciated about this film. A lot of my, the way I view films and just, as I just mentioned, my humor in general comes from my father and I could see why he appreciated this film. There's definitely the the way they were spoofing and just making fun of the epicness of uh you know night stuff and medieval films and religion and social class i thought it was just brilliantly done and just the way the film started with galloping without a horse and coconuts making the

Starting point is 00:06:39 noise there's just so many brilliant bits and i like that they actually had bits in there that were not like plot driven they were like actually random scenes that somewhat intertwined towards the end and you know it it didn't all like come together as like a fully fledged plot or any like kind of character arcs but it was just it was a it was a fun entertaining time and i thought like a lot this film was really more about like getting a point across on just making fun of all this stuff and also it was very comedy based and for the most part i thought it really hit granted this stuff is 50 years old as Aaron pointed out a little earlier but given i i still feel it holds the testament of time i understand why it's so popular and i really

Starting point is 00:07:25 appreciated it and still like it i don't know if there's other films uh in the monte python series there might oh there are there are okay i know that uh terra and coy reacted to one and then as we're because we watch us on amazon right right oh we think with us but there were a couple of other ones it was like like the life of brian and then another one that were like queuing us up for the next And I think this film did such a brilliant job at saving money, too, in a funny way and being meta about it, too, and very self-indulgent about it and just self-aware. Self-aware, excuse me, self-aware about it in terms of just using the same actors for like four, five, six, seven roles and then not using a horse.

Starting point is 00:08:08 Oh, the animator had a fatal heart attack. That's why the Black Beast, there's just a lot of brilliant bits. also, too, how John Cleet, the Lancelot, he comes in and just, because he saw a note, he starts killing everyone and didn't, like, have a thought about it in the world. And then the father's like, oh, you're Lancelot. Let's have a drink. And then, like, everyone's, like, in a riot about it. And then also, too, the film was making fun of mob mentality and how, like, nobody really deeps thinkly, uh, thinks deeply. It's just more group think. And like, you know, it's not more logicality based. It's more emotion based.

Starting point is 00:08:46 I'm like, you actually got to think about these things before you take a life and do these kinds of things that have real consequences, ramifications to them. And so, yeah, there's a lot of actually deep things about this film that they go into, but they make fun of too. And I thought it was just, I thought it was pretty brilliant, honestly, a lot of bits. There were definitely a couple bits that you pointed out that were like a little hit and miss, but for the most part, I was laughing, but I've got a twisted sense of humor. so it's not hard to make me laugh.

Starting point is 00:09:17 But I had a good time, honestly. So those are our quick thoughts, but love to hear in the comments what you guys thought of Monty Python the Holy Grail. But as always, we have a couple questions here. So we are going to read them and answer them. So,

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Starting point is 00:11:24 Aged poorly. I don't know if it's, because when you say age poorly, I think of things are like offensive now that things that you couldn't do today. I don't think there was much you couldn't do today. maybe the bids were like they're throwing all the animals over i thought that i thought that bit was funny because it was so ridiculous it was so dumb it was so funny i don't know but i think for for general audiences i don't think that's something they would do today yeah for me that did not age poorly yeah like that was really funny there are films i think about i'm like i don't know if they could do this film today like i haven't seen it in a long time but like a film like blazing saddles i don't think

Starting point is 00:12:06 you could do that film today. Just too many people who would be up in arms about that. But I think that film's hysterical but I understand why you couldn't do that film today. But a film like,

Starting point is 00:12:15 if there's anything in particular that aged poorly, I can't think of anything particular. I mean, we mentioned already that there were a couple times there were some hit and miss, but I don't know if there's anything that aged poorly.

Starting point is 00:12:30 I know they made a joke of it. Like, we're all 16 and a half to 19, but nothing like came up. it you know there was just more of a joke so i don't know i don't think so i don't think it's aged poorly but i don't i don't know if the comedic sensibilities of how comedy is made today this kind of movie would be made but not for lack of of um cultural relevance or anything but just like i think stylistically things are different like if like you see be more inclined to see something like this on youtube rather than see something like this in a you know a

Starting point is 00:13:06 theater. Fair point. You know what I will say I appreciate it? This film was doing a lot of meta stuff and was breaking the fourth wall. Way before other films were doing that stuff. Like, this is 1975. I can't imagine that was a very popular thing at the time. So I appreciate

Starting point is 00:13:22 that they were like being ambitious and doing stuff like that. So that was great. But let us know in the comments if there was anything you guys felt that aged poorly. Yeah. All right. This is apparently our last question. So take it away, Aaron. Jay Russian. What up, Jay?

Starting point is 00:13:37 Question is, what bit was the funniest mind was the rabbit bit like there? I love the rabbit. That was great. That was a good, that was a good Ryan Johnson moment, subverting of your expectation. I knew something cute was going to be there, the way it was described. And then subverting it again to this destruction of an animal, you did this destructive thing, like a rabbit. So I would say, I don't know, man. That ended. was so good how they just stayed on with the music. That was pretty funny. Lanslock coming in to take everyone out. There was just so many different you could pick from. Lanslock getting arrested. My bit was with the Black Knight. That was my favorite. Oh, with the Animator has the heart attack. No, no, no. When like, oh, the Black. When he kept cutting his limbs off him, like, I'm fine. Oh, the Black Knight. Sorry, I was thinking the Black piece. My bad. The Black Knight. Yeah, yeah. That was pre-it's just a flesh. Oh, you're going to cower away. Fine.

Starting point is 00:14:35 that was pretty good actually his legs and his feet are and his hands are both gone but he still wants to fight off all right let's call it a draw i don't know it was just so cheeky just the the film was going about its different uh its moments because it's just it's largely a series of bits yeah it are kind of like random and cut back and forth between each other and like a lot of things that don't obviously make the most sense but they're just so weird you're like yeah why not random it's like that from for moment one where them saying like they messed up the credits in the beginning before the actual movie starts so i think this yeah this whole experience is just one big series of bits but not in a way where it's get it overstates it's welcome i feel like they have a different sense of variety some bits individual bits may go may go a little too long but a lot of them uh really worked for me my my second favorite bit was probably the the the rabbit that's supposed to be the horse like uh like in troy oh my god And they forgot to get inside of it. Like, they laid out the plan as it was going through.

Starting point is 00:15:39 I'm like, yeah. Yeah, my third is probably the, uh, that's a good one actually, Aaron. The one with the guards and they couldn't follow the instructions about how to, I was about to, I was literally, I was about to say that I was waiting for you to be done. But yes, I'm in agreement with you. That was so freaking funny. And I also like to, the other bit that I love was the one where they were going over the hand grenade countdown. three and they kept on doing like a word salad it's three it's three like ten times I'm like

Starting point is 00:16:07 so it's three but that is a movie trope where like something is explained in like 20 different ways yeah of the same thing so I get why they were making fun of that of course but it's a great bit though no this movie had a ton of great bits yeah yeah no it was a great time so yeah let us know what your favorite bits are what your favorite part was in the film did you think I anything, age poorly? Is this one of the best meta subverting of expectations? Whatever you want to call this film? Or I guess you could call it medieval film, whatever you want to say. Is this one of your

Starting point is 00:16:42 favorites, classic film? Let's call it that, Aaron, right? Classic. So one of your favorite classic films, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I know there are others in the series. Let us know in the comments. Would you like Aaron and I to continue this series? Or there's another series or set of films or whatever you'd like, Aaron, myself. Any other members of the team to react to. We'd love to hear your comments down below. We appreciate and love you guys if you stuck with us this song. Thank you so much. Take care. Remember, if you have a hand grenade,

Starting point is 00:17:09 it's three, not five. Be safe.

The Reel Rejects - MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) IS HILARIOUSLY RANDOM! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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