SummaryThe Monty Python team are at it again in their second movie. This time we follow King Arthur and his knights in their search for the Holy Grail. This isn't your average medieval knights and horses story - for a start, due to a shortage in the kingdom, all the horses have been replaced by servants clopping coconuts together!
Directed By:Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Written By:Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Thomas Malory
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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91
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100% Positive
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100
Surely one of the funniest movies ever made. [12 Sept 2001, p.53]
100
It may lack the authority-baiting, satire-with-a-purpose edge of Life of Brian, but Holy Grail is the looser, sillier, ultimately funnier film, packed with actual goofy laughs rather than hey-I-get-that cleverness.
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Universal Acclaim
91% Positive
479 Ratings
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13 Ratings
13 Ratings
Feb 21, 2026
10
A deliriously inventive parody that skewers Arthurian legend with relentless absurdity, razor-sharp wit, and endlessly quotable gags. A low-budget comedy that turns its limitations into strengths and remains one of the most brilliantly rewatchable films ever made.
Jul 9, 2025
10
Proper epic comedy all the way through! Got to watch the scene of the black knight never giving up! Gandalf won’t have a chance to pass!
100
Nobody ever placed brilliance in the service of silliness quite the way the Python gang did. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is stuffed with both.
90
It's one heck of a basis for a funny movie.
88
Working "lobbed" and "scimitar" into that same sentence hovers near the empyrean of genius.
80
Silly, sophomoric, and slapped together, but would you want it any other way?
70
Basically an excuse for set pieces, some amusing, others overdone.
Mar 18, 2025
10
possibly the greatest comedy ever made, despite releasing 50 years ago now. It has some of the greatest jokes in cinema history. It is, absolute cinema
Feb 2, 2025
10
apenas o apice do humor, esse filme alem de ter envelhecido como vinho, conseguiu trazer suas piadas que se encaixam em nosso contemporaneo, se vc quer rir assista Monty Python
Feb 5, 2026
6
70년대 인데 골때린다.이 시대에도 FLEX 구나200831 (3.0)-1. 시작부터 약 빨았는데 저 시대에 이런게 가능했어? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ2. 아니 전투씬... 말타는거... 코코넛 두들기는 소리로 ㅋㅋㅋ어쩔거야 ㅋㅋㅋ3. 수도승들이 지 머리 때리는 것도 ㅋㅋㅋ 웃기다 ㅋㅋㅋ4. 여자한테 코스튬 입혀놓고 마녀사냥 할라하는거 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ5. 원탁의 기사들이 탭댄스 추고 뮤지컬 해 ㅋㅋㅋ 라임이 많아서 숨막혀 죽겠데 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ6. 프랑스에서 온 성민들이 소 던지는거 무슨 의미야 ? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ7. 아니 갑자기 역사교실 촬영하다가 목잘리고 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ8. 무장한 하객들도 막 죽이는 난장판꾼 ㅋㅋ 랜슬롯 ㅋㅋㅋ9. 다이너마이트 저 시대에 없는데 ㅋㅋ 대사에 나와 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ10. 성경 구절 조롱하는 것도 웃기다 ㅋㅋㅋ 같은 말을 묘하게 꼬아서 계속 반복해서 길게 말하는 ㅋㅋㅋ11. CG없이 괴물 그리다가 애니메이터가 죽어서 괴물이 죽었데 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ12. 제비 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 맨몸의 제비가 나는 속도 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ13. 아니 ㅋㅋㅋ 경찰차에 잡혀서 전신 검문 당해 갑자기 기사가 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ14. 아니 갑자기 경찰에 끌려가고 그냥 끝난다고 ? 이야기 끝 안내 ? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 미치겠네 ㅋㅋㅋ15. 수많은 것들에게 영감을 준 <몬티 파이선> 시리즈. 정확한 명치은 파이튼이 아니고 파이선. 프로그래밍 언어 파이선은 이 영화, 코미디 크루에서 유래한 것이 맞다. 몬티 파이선은 어떤 사람 혹은 배역의 이름ㅇ리 아니라 서커스 단장 사기꾼 같은 이름을 대충 갖다 붙인거라고 한다. 이 시리즈 전체를 보고말거다. 넷플릭스에 마침 다 있다지 뭐니. 70년대에 만들어진 40년생들의 작품인데 시대를 타지 않고 너무 재미있다.
Feb 5, 2022
6
This has been a really weird experience which kinda made me think this was a really well done troll movie or a pretty average comedy movie. Some of the parts were pretty meh and it felt like the director was taking a huge amount of drugs before filming them which makes the humor get lost while others were genuine and funny as heck.I would suggest checking this out just because it is something fresh and unique in its own stupid way.
May 7, 2018
4
how did you know that.. Monty Python And The Holy Grail It has an eerie comic tone that may not be palpable to everyone along with its way of conveying the tale, and once the audience goes past that, it would just be jibber-jabber that tickles here and there. The makers being aware of the vision throughout the course of it is what helps install these little moments that may surprise more than amuse someone. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones have done a decent work on some of the sequences while on some of it, they seemed a bit distracted. On performance level, the actors are hilarious among the supporting cast and even cameos, that marks their impression in a finite screen time. Monty Python And The Holy Grail is a feature that takes its joke very seriously and clears out the priorities within its first few minutes but considering as a whole project, it is unfortunately forgettable.
Production Company:
- Python (Monty) Pictures
- Michael White Productions
- National Film Trustee Company
Release Date:Apr 14, 1975
Duration:1 h 31 m
Rating:PG
Tagline:You can do worse than see it.
Awards
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
European Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
DVD Exclusive Awards
• 1 Nomination




























