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Monty Python's Life of Brian - Criterion Collection dvd movie. Home » DVD Movies » Actors/Actresses » C » Other » Charles Mckeown Other • Castulo Guerra Other • Craig Pearce Other • Charles Cioffi Other • Clive Brook Other • Claude Earl Jones Other • Cliff Potts Other • Connie Gilchrist Other • Cody Palance Other • Clare Higgins Other • Chris Kilgore Other • Craig Stepp Other • Craig Benton Monty Python's Life of Brian - Criterion Collection buy bestselling dvd movies, videos find reviews, ratings, prices List Price: $39.95 Our Price: $38.99 You Save: $0.96 Features • Anamorphic • Color • DVD-Video • Special Edition • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 17 August, 1979 DVD Release : 16 November, 1999 [ + Zoom ]   [ Buy Now ] DVD : Usually ships in 24 hours Monty Python's Life of Brian - Criterion Collection description "Blessed are the cheesemakers," a wise man once said. Or maybe not. But the point is Monty Python's Life of Brian is a religious satire that does not target specific religions or religious leaders (like, say, Jesus of Nazareth). Instead, it pokes fun at the mindless and fanatical among their followers--it's an attack on religious zealotry and hypocrisy--things that that fellow from Nazareth didn't particularly care for either. Nevertheless, at the time of its release in 1979, those who hadn't seen it considered it to be quite "controversial." Life of Brian, you see, is about a chap named Brian (Graham Chapman) born December 25 in a hovel not far from a soon-to-be-famous Bethlehem manger. Brian is mistaken for the messiah and therefore manipulated, abused, and exploited by various religious and political factions. And it's really, really funny. Particularly memorable bits include the brassy Shirley Bassey/James Bond-like title song; the bitter rivalry between the anti-Roman resistance groups, the Judean People's Front and the People's Front of Judea; Michael Palin's turn as a lisping, risible Pontius Pilate; Brian urging a throng of false-idol worshippers to think for themselves--to which they reply en masse "Yes, we must think for ourselves!"; the fact that everything Brian does, including losing his sandal in an attempt to flee these wackos, is interpreted as "a sign." Life of Brian is not only one of Monty Python's funniest achievements, it's also the group's sharpest and smartest sustained satire. Blessed are the Pythons. --Jim Emerson Monty Python's Life of Brian - Criterion Collection Customer Reviews   1     2     3   ♥♥♥♥♥ Delicious satire... This film is a great satire on the human race. No other film seems to sum up the hysteria, naivety, prejudice, suspicion, gullibility and sheer aching ignorant stupidity of the human race! Set the film in contemporary times and everybody would relish its accuracy and laugh fit to burst at our folly. However, set it in biblical times, say around the time of Christ's ministry on earth to the ignorant masses - and there are charges of it being sacrilegious? Let's not forget that Jesus' life on earth was abruptly terminated by those sensitive types who were irritated by his teachings and did not see anything amusing about him in any way. See this film for what it is - a gentle satire on the human condition and laugh until you ache!   1     2     3   Non User