Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: HD DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
EAN: 0025193293725
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 11787
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: March 31, 1983
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Description:
Those six pandemonium-mad Pythons are back with their craziest adventure ever! John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin have returned to explain The Meaning of Life. These naughty Brits offer the usual tasteful sketches involving favorite body parts and bodily functions, the wonders of war, the miracle of birth and a special preview of what's waiting for us in Heaven. Nothing is too sacred for the probing Python crew. You'll never look at life in quite the same way again. Time pronounces it 'an exhilarating experience!' Newsweek agrees, calling it, 'the best movie from England's satirical sextet.' Winner of the 1983 Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Award.
Amazon.com essential video:
Perhaps only the collective brilliant minds of the Monty Python film and television troupe are up to the task of tackling a subject as weighty as the Meaning of Life. Sure, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and their ilk have tried their hands at this puzzler, but only Python has attempted to do so within the commercial motion picture medium. Happily for us all, Monty Python's the Meaning of Life truly explains everything one conceivably needs to know about the perplexities of human existence, from the mysteries of Catholic doctrine to the miracle of reproduction to why one should avoid the salmon mousse to the critical importance of the machine that goes ping! Using fish as a linking device (and what marvelous links those aquatic creatures make), The Meaning of Life is presented as a series of sketches: a musical production number about why seed is sacred; a look at dining in the afterlife; the quest for a missing fish (there they are again); a visit from Mr. Death; the cautionary tale of Mr. Creosote and his rather gluttonous appetite; an unflinching examination of the harsh realities of organ donation, and so on. Sadly, this was the last original Python film, but it's a beaut. You'll laugh. You'll cry (probably because you're laughing so hard). You may even learn something about the Meaning of Life. Or at least about how fish fit into the grand scheme of things. --Jim Emerson
Amazon.com:
Perhaps only the collective brilliant minds of the Monty Python film and television troupe are up to the task of tackling a subject as weighty as the Meaning of Life. Sure, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and their ilk have tried their hands at this puzzler, but only Python has attempted to do so within the commercial motion picture medium. Happily for us all, Monty Python's the Meaning of Life truly explains everything one conceivably needs to know about the perplexities of human existence, from the mysteries of Catholic doctrine to the miracle of reproduction to why one should avoid the salmon mousse to the critical importance of the machine that goes ping! Using fish as a linking device (and what marvelous links those aquatic creatures make), The Meaning of Life is presented as a series of sketches: a musical production number about why seed is sacred; a look at dining in the afterlife; the quest for a missing fish (there they are again); a visit from Mr. Death; the cautionary tale of Mr. Creosote and his rather gluttonous appetite; an unflinching examination of the harsh realities of organ donation, and so on. Sadly, this was the last original Python film, but it's a beaut. You'll laugh. You'll cry (probably because you're laughing so hard). You may even learn something about the Meaning of Life. Or at least about how fish fit into the grand scheme of things. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - I bought this because they told me too. On the Monty Python Free YouTube Channel!
And now I know "The Meaning of Life!" We are all programmed to carry out orders! lol Freida
Rating:  - I LOVE this movie but... quality wise, I prefer the VHS version!
The DVD seems to have a big problem with interlacing.
Even when played on a 1080p blue ray up-convertion player on a HD-TV, the picture is terrible.
None the 20+ others DVD I own have this problem.
Rating: - if you like slap stick style humor
if you like other Monthy Python, or things like Naked Gun then you will love this movie, i didn't find the opening scene very funny but the rest was hilarious
Rating:  - Typical Monty Python Quirkiness
If you like the Monthy Python style of humor, then you'll enjoy "The Meaning Of Life". It's as simple as that. On the other hand, if you don't care for jokes about vomiting, sperm, penises, vaginas, and menstrual periods, liberally sprinkled with profanity, and with men playing the women's parts, then you should probably skip this.
In my opinion, the movie's best feature, by far, is "The Galaxy Song" which is sung by a man who steps out of a refrigerator a little more than halfway through the movie. That song is brilliant! That one brief, shining moment, however, isn't enough to merit a five-star review for the movie as a whole. There's too much other stuff, much of it not funny at all. The fat man vomiting at his table in an elegant restaurant is the worst. I suppose humor is in the eye of the beholder. The vomiting scene just didn't work for me.
I would recommend that Americans play the movie with the English subtitles on. The actors all have British accents, which can be a little hard to understand at times.
One thing I would warn against is the "Soundtrack For The Lonely." Whoever came up with that idea should consider a different line of work. It is just not funny at all. It is completely boring all the way through.
The movie begins with a short film about The Crimson Permanent Assurance Corporation. It isn't funny. It's dumb. Like the restaurant vomiting scene, it basically has nothing to do with anything.
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Rating: - Excellence!
This was one of the best movies that I have seen in a long time. I rolled with laughter from the beginning to the end. Wonderful!
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