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and announces, “I’m sorry, I can’t afford to keep you any longer. You’re all going to have to be sold for scientific experimentation . . . all because the Pope says I can’t wear a little bit of plastic over my cock.” The children break into a song and dance, Every Sperm is Sacred, reminiscent of production numbers from An& or Oliver - a fine satire. Or: .a woman about to give%irth is wheeled towards the operating room. She is in obvious painand distress. Bang! Bang! Bang! as the end of the table, where her head is, slams open the hospital doors. Into the operating room is wheeled every conceivable form of medical equipment, including, as John Cleese so eloquently puts it, “The machine that goes BEEP” - after all, the hospital director is coming in to observe. Use the equipment or he may decide it isn’t necessary and cut the budget. . . Low Points: a scene included for its obvious ability to gross people out. The Mister CreosoteScene. (Icapitalize it becauseit is going to be remembered as the most tasteless, nauseainspiring thing the Python people have produced so far.) I hope they don’t try and outdo themselves. Mr. Creosote is big. Very big. He’s about as round as he is tall. His pants could be a tent in the low rent districts of Puerto Rico. His first words ? “Get me a pail . . . I’m going to throw up.” This is the greatest understatement in the world. He does. All over. It was horrible. The squeamish are advised to cover their eyes. I nearly did. For a day or two afterwards, I found myself avoiding thinking of it. Most creative point: use of the short. The short, of course, is that creative bit of garbage (usually made by the NFB) that goes on before the movie so you have time to buy some popcorn at exploitive prices. The short for Meaning of Life was a moderately funny piece by the Python people. I thought it was merely something they’d done up for some other occasion, and the theatre had tacked it on out of some Pavlovian instinct: Python Movie Python Short. And it was neat and entertaining. I didn’t expect it to show up in the movie . . . in fact, of course, the movie had begun ten minutes before we thought it had. Too bad for people who buy popcorn at exploitive prices. This movie is probably not going to be fodder for the people who like to recite Python lines at parties because much of it depends upon visual humour; and you’ll never remember the songs. So if you want to remember it, watch for the inevitable Python album; or pick up the book that they’vealreadyreleased. I think the social commentary sections of the movieare worth remembering, and even if you find the movie worth not recalling, you will probably find it funny. However, if you don’t like Python now, don’t bother going. The Python people have developed their own distinct style, Meaning of Life is very much in this style, and if you don’t like that you won’t like the picture. Especially the fish.
by John W. Bast Imprint staff What Monty Python’s Meaning of Life lacks in coherence, it more than makes up for in content. And in that content, one finds the best sampling of “a bit of everything” that I have seen. Social commentary, sex, slapstick, and a blatant attempt to gross out the world are all included in the movie. Andthe songs are wonderful - possibly the best I have heard from the Python gang. There is what appears to be a totally new use of the theatre “short”. And of course, there are the fish . . . The movie is a series of almost totally unconnected episodes. The overriding theme, “the meaning of life”, does not obtrude into most sketches, though there are obvious exceptions. Sometimes it is worked in at a seemingly random point in the sketch; one of the most effective songs in the show appears this way. High Points: Two marvellously cutting social commentary one about the Catholic Church’s stand on scenes contraception; another about modern hospital practice at births. A workingman enters his home. There are children everywhere. Big ones, little ones, thin ones, fat ones, ugly ones, pretty ones. Kids, kids, kids. The man calls his family together
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by John W. Bast Imprint staff “I’m going to rip off your head and shit down your neck!” This line, shouted by Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Detroit -an upbeat and streamlined Dr. Strangelove - pretty much defines the film, Dr. Detroit. If you enjoyed The Blues Brothers, or for that matter, the Saturday Night Live routines that Aykroyd and the late John Belushi were famous for, you’ll like Detroit which is, perhaps, even funnier. As Aykroyd’s first effort to stand without Belushi, it succeeds very well. However, one could see he missed the other comedian to play off-every now and then Aykroyd’s character went just a little schizophrenic, trading. lines back and forth with himself. This is especially apparent in the way the film is structured there are no particularly funny characters in the film besides Aykroyd. All the big laughs centre on him.
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.l‘here is not a lot to tell, plotwise. A poor college professor has a series of misadventures, to cope with which, he has to turn himself into somethingelse. If there is any meaning to be found in this film, it is Aykroyd’s character finding that there is more to life than just the ultra-conservative and there is a place for the wild and hairy. Aykroyd is seduced into taking care of a bevy of call-girls. His enemy is “Mom”, a hefty rival entrepreneur. Unable to deal with her as a college tye, he becomes “The Doctor”. So much of this movie is visual humour and witty response that it almost can’t be talked about - it should be experienced. Coarse language is used in the film (not that that should worry University studentsband if you’re after skin, there’s abit of that, too. But the main attraction is Aykroyd. While this movie may not be the biggest comedy hit this summer, it will certainly be in the running. Have fun with it.
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