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Life is Python at its most relentlessly tasteless and uncompromisingly Swiftian.
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The Meaning Of Life is unsparing and elaborate in its vision of humanity at its foulest.
83
It’s tough to find the meaning in much of the craziness on display here, let alone the meaning of all human existence as the title promises, but you will find a whole lot of exquisite nonsense.
80
The best movie to date from England's satirical sextet. [04 Apr 1983, p.74]
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You will not necessarily know any more about life after the film is done, but you'll have killed a couple of hours painlessly, and you will have laughed a lot. [18 Apr 1984, p.C6]
70
Unbelievably crass. And extremely funny.
70
Gross, silly, caustic, tasteless and obnoxious are all adjectives that alternately apply to Monty Python's The Meaning of Life though probably the most appropriate description would simply be funny.
63
A movie that seems consumed with a desire to push us too far. This movie is so far beyond good taste, and so cheerfully beyond, that we almost feel we're being One-Upped if we allow ourselves to be offended.
60
Excessive and self-indulgent it's true but still the Pythons at their worst are still worth a look.
60
Monty Python's the Meaning of Life is funny but, being unreasonable, I wish it were funny from start to finish.
