Film

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983

Directed by Terry Jones

  • Comedy
  • 107 min
  • R

It took God six days to create the heavens and the earth...and Monty Python ninety minutes to screw it up.

Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.

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Comic, epic, plot-driven and ironic.

  • gravecomic
  • intimateepic
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • earnestironic
  • contemplativerelentless

Who loves it, who doesn't

The ProvocateurThe Provocateur: loved by 8The Provocateur: disliked by 18 / 1The Prestige HunterThe Prestige Hunter: loved by 55The CartographerThe Cartographer: loved by 3The Cartographer: disliked by 23 / 2The FormalistThe Formalist: loved by 33The IronistThe Ironist: loved by 22The Comfort SeekerThe Comfort Seeker: loved by 22The Genre DevoteeThe Genre Devotee: loved by 11The EmpathThe Empath: loved by 11loved (4★+)disliked (2.5★ or less)

40 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Cartographers.

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