This is a tragic tale of police profiling and malfeasance in the investigative process. Arthur and his men could NOT have killed the famous historian. The killer was riding on a real horse !!!
@@alancrofoot - No, they could have definitely afforded horses... but most of the Monty Python cast had absolutely no interest in actually learning how to ride them.
@@Mr.Ekshin Not according to the memory of John Cleese around 1:20 of this interview. th-cam.com/video/q1RSIwexj9g/w-d-xo.html&pp=ygUham9obiBjbGVlc2UgZGlkIG5vdCBlbmpveSBmaWxtaW5n
They had no horses for two reasons. First, they didn’t have the budget for horses. Second, no one knew how to ride a horse and they lacked the time and money to get lessons. One of the funny things is that the only guy on a horse killed the historian but none of the people arrested had a horse. There are no credits at the end because the people who wrote the credits got fired at the start. The movie ended the way it did because they lacked the money to do anything else. You will understand the style of the story better if you watch some of the old Monty Python and The Flying Circus shows.
John Cleese must have had at least some ability to ride a horse, since he was Dennis Moore (whose horse is also named Concorde), around two years before this movie was made. He may have been the only one, though.
movies always had the credits at the beginning of the movie before star wars. lucas changed the whole movie watching experience because he wanted the credits at the end so it didn't mess up his opening crawl
In Game of Thrones, when Daenerys first arrives outside the gates of Meereen, the city sends out a champion to challenge them. He shouts a lot of stuff in Valyrian. If you translate the Valyrian, he is actually saying, "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries."
Immediately following the "gotcha" of the extremely short intermission where cinemagoers would have got up to go to the toilet and then had to rush back to their seats.
You have to love a beautiful woman who totally gets Monty Python. You are the first reactor that actually even got the opening credits, and paused them to read them all. Monty Python is a comedy troupe that did several movies, and had a half hour TV show for several years. I highly recommend you watch all of their stuff. Also, the animator is Terry Gilliam, who later goes on to direct Brazil, Time Bandits and several other movies. you are right when you said the writers (all of them) were so smart. All of their stuff has so many layers but that is what makes it funny - it is completely ridiculous and subtly intellectual at the same time. I subscribed because of your reaction.
I think that pausing poses some logistics complexity for synchronizing audio and video. I think that's why reactors tend to be shy about pausing. Gilliam also plays the Green Knight in this movie.
"All I can see is my own reflection".....Aria C, you got a deeper meaning from this movie than I did. lol 😄Thanks for your reactions, especially the silly comedies make you laugh the hardest, me too. More silly comedies please!
British humour not humor, humor is a sub standard version of humour. British humour covers all humour, all other countries have a small subset of the overall humour available, so its not an acquired taste its that others have a limited understanding of the overarching humour, ie USA-ians who only get to a relatively low limited level of humor, hence the limited spelling humor, representing the limited amount they are able to comprehend(John Cleese explained this, not me saying it(honest)).
Fun fact: "What is the capital of Assyria" is a trick question. It had several capitals depending on time period, and didn't even exist by any of the legendary time periods assigned to Arthur. Btw, great channel. You're very cute, genuine, and engaging.
If you didn't notice, the knight that killed the historian couldn't have been part of King Arthur's band. He was the only knight riding a horse, You were right about the lack of horses, they couldn't afford them
The ending was a "Cop Out" - the credits were all done at the beginning of the film and ended up being finished at great expense at the last minute. the horse gag was conceived long before the film was. On of them came up with the gag and figured it fit well into this film.
With Python, one either laughs from the start or spends the whole movie silent and confused. I'm glad you were the former, Aria. I'm sure you'll enjoy the others., 'Life of Brian' and 'Meaning of Life'.
Another M Python cinematic experience (my first intro to the troupe) was "And Now For Something Completely Different", a movie made up of a collection of many of the better bits from several seasons of the TV show, Monty Python's Flying Circus.
"I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!" Dennis is a legend
"Where'd all these people come from? I'd ask, but there's no point." You just summed up the whole humor of the film. You get it. Aria, you are the only young reactor who has ever gotten the humor and really laughed for all the right reasons. Wonderful reaction to Monty Python.
One of the absolute greatest comedies ever made. The Pythons were so on point, comedically, that I can't fathom how people can conjure consistently ridiculous and hilarious comedy but still manage to be intellectually precise. Also, the death of the animator (Monty Python member, animator and great director Terry Gilliam), as specific as it is, NEVER fails to make me cackle 😂❤
So many favorite lines from Python : "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!" "BRING OUT THE BIG COMFY CHAIR!" "My dog has no nose." "How does it smell?" "Awful!" But there are so many iconic skits from The Flying Circus and the movies as well. You can't have just one...
Props to Aria for not cheating at the end and checking how much movie was left! I didn't get to experience this in a theater, but on VHS the VCR didn't show how much tape was left.
The theatrical release didn't have the intermission music at the end. It was added to the VHS version so that people wouldn't think their tape was defective.
Ah this classic, we can thank a number of classic rock bands and members of them for supporting it through partly funding it, such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.
Can you see how this film created SO. MANY. MEMES? The guys who make south park say monty python inspired them, and the film has even been referenced in the Simpsons and Ready Player One. The holy hand grenade is in loads of computer games!
1. What about the moose? 2. Paying attention to the opening credits makes it better for everyone, including you. 3. The first time I saw this was in the back of a pickup at a drive-in (it's still here) with my siblings and a couple of friends. 4. Perfect Monty Python where you can just get sucked into something where you don't have to think about anything and just let yourself go. 5. "What ya gonna do? Bleed on me." "we'll call it a draw" 6. Quick bit: "Blow it out your ass"! 7. The ultimate cock block 😭 8. Robin's shield is a chicken. 9.The only horse in the film is ridden by the guy that killed the historian. 10.The ending sucked. It was a cop out. Literally They ran out of 🤑🤑
I think the "intermission" was just to troll people in the theaters. People would think there was an actual break (it was a thing in old movies), so they'd start getting up to go to the bathroom or get popcorn, then have to sit right back down again 😆
Yes, there are 5 reasons, why you should watch EVERY Monty Python movie. Uhm, no. Three, three ... #1 They are good. #2 You liked this one, so you will like them all. #3 T'was just a flesh wound. No, really. Just watch them. I watched everything from them and everything from each one of them in their other projects. All were worth it, movies, tv series, even the interviews. Of course, the obvious recommendation is always Life of Brian, but seriously, look up what they all did and watch it. These guys are legend, and it's all intelligent and silly humor and highly entertaining. Totally loved them. I even bought the full transcript of Monty Python's Flying Circus as a book. Like the holy bible of absurd British humor. Yes, I enjoyed the reaction very much. Have a great week and all the best.
Always good to see a reactor who gets the jokes. It is worth watching the opening credits again to get all the jokes there. Note in the final bits they replaced”moose” with “llama”
This movie's ending is a literal "cop out." 😅 Aria, you really should add "A Fish Called Wanda" to your playlist since you enjoyed Monty Python's style of humor. John Cleese (Sir Lancelot and Tim the Enchanter, etc.) and Michael Palin (Sir Galahad, etc.) join Jamie Lee Curtis ("Halloween," "Trading Places") and Kevin Kline (who won an Oscar for this movie) on a crazy comedy jewelry heist.
Monthy Python consists of a small band of players, including Michael Palin, John Cleese, Graham Chapman (RIP), Eric Idle, Terry Jones (RIP), and token American Terry Gilliam (yes, the film director, and who also does all the animations for Monty Python films and tv shows). Each member of Monty Python plays multiple characters in their films. For example, John Cleese played Launcelot, the taunting Frenchman, Tim the Enchanter, the villager who turned into a newt, and some others.
"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?" Is one of the funniest lines in a comedy of all time for me, up there with "Was that 0600 in the morning?" and "Hey where the white women at?"
The best cop out ending ever! The Python boys specialized in intellectual absurdism - they reference obscure/esoteric facts or trivia in the service of patently absurd comedic sketches. I'd recommend Monty Python's Life of Brian, if you haven't already seen it. As noted before you started, the Python humor isn't for everyone....so, it's been so much fun to find that your sense of humor (based on your Blazing Saddles video and this one) is so similar to my own. 😃 Keep laughing!!
When I was a kid I was REALLY MAD about the non-ending, I made the mistake of getting invested in the quest lol, but then it became one of my favorite films
One thing I love about the subtitles thing is that in the cinema there must have loads of people ignoring the 'boring' credits, and have had no idea why other people in there were laughing.
There were two movies I made my kids watch growing up... Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Blazing Saddles. I don't regret either of them. I saw both movies first run in the theater.
I'm so glad you laughed at this movie as you did, Aria! ♥ Every other commenter has mentioned other aspects of the movie so I'll add one that no one has written. Sir Robin the (not so) Brave was played by Eric Idle, one of the Monty Python members. The guy who played his lead minstrel, as well as the lead monk (hitting themselves with the pieces of wood) was a musician named Neil Innes. Innes had been part of a band in the mid to late 1960s called the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, whose music was often very odd and always fun. He and Eric Idle had become good friends and would later create their own UK TV show, as well as a hilarious comedy satire on the career of The Beatles, but using a fictitious band called The Rutles. The music for the Rutles show was written by Innes and was so close to The Beatles that John Lennon (who loved it) gave Innes and Idle the caution that it was so close to the originals that it may cause copyright lawsuits. I highly recommend checking out The Rutles, Aria, if you get the chance.
Exactly right, as well as Harrison being an important financial backer for Python's Life Of Brian. Your name is very familiar to me. Do you have twin younger brothers and went to Caulfeild?
Aria, the guy who sings behind sir robin is called a Minstrel, they play an instrument and sing about things, if you want to see what life was like back then, you can read a comic book from marvel comics called Groo the Wanderer, it was by Sergio Arragonnes and Mark Evanier, it was very funny and set a long time ago in the dark ages, and centered around a barbarian and his pet doggie who liked cheese dip. and he met various characters like two witches, a minstrel, a pirate, a swordswoman, and more
Your laughter is a perfect tonic and reminds me what it was like when I saw it the first time, and I end up laughing with you! It's a great enjoyable film with some wonderful fun moments. Thanks for the cheery vid!
Aria, I don't normally comment on reactors, but I have to say that your reaction to MP&THG is the best I've seen from a younger person, anyone for that matter. You had me laughing right from the beginning and I loved it. You have a great sense of humor. If you haven't seen Jojo Rabbit or After Hours from 1985, I would love to see your reactions to those comedies. I really enjoyed your reaction to this. You should also check out their show Monty Python's Flying Circus. It was a great show I grew up on, besides their other movies. Keep up the great reactions.
monty python couldn't have predicted TH-cam reactions 50 years ago, but I'm sure they would have died laughing at people staring at the black screen at the end
Fantastic reaction! Obviously this is your kind of humor since you took it all in stride and enjoyed it so openly. A little slow at the start until you figured out the Swedish bit with the moose. All the credits are "tampered with" to some degree. (Signed Richard M. Nixon!) The actors did not know how to ride and didn't have the budget for horses, so they adopted the old radio show sound effect and made it a joke. On their TV show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, they ended several sketches with a cop arresting the players. One famous ending had another cop arresting the first one, then another appeared behind him and arrested that one, then a hand reached from behind a doorframe and it cut. All the Python players were highly intelligent and highly educated and their humor had multiple layers. Not only did they jump in time but also location - one sketch had a middle aged lady step out her kitchen door onto the deck of a ship at sea. British absurdist humor at its best. Long films used to have intermissions in the middle; they trolled their audience by putting one in near the end and making it so short that folks would just get to the door to get a snack and the movie started again. Fun to watch them get caught like that. The end trolled the audience again since by now no one knew what to expect. Just like you, we sat in the dark listening to the music waiting for something else to happen. Loved every moment of this. Thanks for sharing it and thanks for being you. You are a delight.
I'm sure you can imagine as young teenagers in the 70's we would frequently quote lines at each other from this movie. Especially at school where we knew teachers or adults would have no Idea what on earth we were talking about😂
You are the first person I've ever seen that got that when the French guy called them kaniggets, he was actually mispronouncing knights on their first watch through. Color me impressed.
Dennis the peasant is one of the best scenes in this film in my eyes. I love his very modern speech on the class system. It makes this film even now quite accurate. And Michael Palin passionate delivery is just perfect for it. Also 'some wattery tart threw a sword at you... I can almost envision some alternate universe where she throws the sword... right through Arthur's chest/stomach and he dies. OOPS. As for why they are using the same castle... They only had permission to use one. It was planned three, but the other two said no at the last second, so they just used the same castle at different angles to portray different castles. 26:52 WOW you are the first reactor I have seen that understands they did not have money for actual horses... Ok they had enough money for one horse and they used it to set up the ending. Did you forget that the credits were at the start of the film?
It's fun to watch this movie with someone who gets it. You were fun to watch with. Oh, I think the "Ni" is just silliness, like you say. Apparently it's not of great importance since they change it before day's end, lol.
Loved your reaction to *The Holy Grail* Aria! You nailed it at the end, that this is a movie you can come back to. Even though I've seen it many times, it still makes me laugh in so many places. While I know a lot of people love *Life of Brian*, this is my favourite of the Monty Python movies.
Aria, I'm writing this on your last reaction in hopes that you will see it. I've watched several of your reactions (just finished "The Godfather"), and you've quickly become one of my favorites. I love that you don't constantly talk over the films like so many other reactors do. You're a pleasure to watch, so keep up the good work. Thanks, John. (New subscriber!)
You could maybe try Yellow Submarine if you like that sort of animation. The "intermission" screen was I think to fool people into standing up in the cinema. The ending is a "cop out" in case you've not already been informed :P
Up until the late 70's, most films had the credits at the beginning, not at the end. That way people had to read them before seeing the movie and therefore the people who made the movies were acknowledged properly (we didn't have IMDB or the internet to look them up). With them at the end, most people get up and leave the cinema in a rush (to avoid the rush). I believe it may have been Star Wars that really started the fad for End Credits.
You honestly come across as very reserved in terms of displaying emotion, not a bad thing, but I’m glad this movie broke you out of your shell, and seeing you reel over in laughter has made my night. Now subbed.
This movie became a weekly thing to see at our cinema, like The Wall and Rocky Horror. And Ni means Ni. That is all what it means. Nothing less, and nothing more. Just Ni. Get it? Ni.
The French catapulting a cow is based on a real story. A besieged town that almost ran out of food, decided to catapult all the food they had. The besiegers who also were running out of resources and food were convinced the town had enough food to go on for months and probably years. So they lifted the siege.
Great to see that this movie was for you. It was great to see you laughing and getting the jokes. I have seen this many times and I think it's brilliant. I only recently noticed though that at the castle Arghhh, they have to get a boat to take them there but after the vicious attack by the french taunting they walked back across.
I love these reaction videos, but I think this is about the best one I've watched regarding this film. A lot of people watching it miss so many of the jokes but you cottoned on to most of them straight away. Ni was something a teacher that Michael Palin had at school who always said Ni when he bent down to pick up a book from a lower shelf. No doubt a few people will suggest Life Of Brian, which is brilliant, to watch, but I'd also suggest And Now For Something Completely Different which is a collection of sketches from the TV series and there's also Monty Python At The Hollywood Bowl, both of which are great. BTW, yes, they couldn't afford horses. lol
(Lots of trivia, please check it out) Kudos for watching the entire end! Movies (especially long ones) back in the day used to have intermissions at the half way point (Ben Hur, My Fair Lady I think) so you can take a restroom break or stretch from sitting; that it was inserted almost at the end was the joke. Credits also used to be shown at the beginning so you can get settled, like a musical where the overture is played (West Side Story for example). Then you can leave immediately when the movie ends. Spamalot was based on this movie, which is based on the Monty Python show, various comedy skits and cuts to things not related to anything else. Minnie seemed to know what was coming, love the bonus dance!
I knew the Arthur legend since a kid, but Dennis saying "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for government". I'm like huh, never thought of that, he's right!
I really enjoyed your reaction. I enjoyed your laughter and smiling and some of the more ridiculous parts of the movie. This is one of my favorite movies. So silly and so funny.
This is a tragic tale of police profiling and malfeasance in the investigative process. Arthur and his men could NOT have killed the famous historian. The killer was riding on a real horse !!!
Still, they're all likely to get five years, but their lawyer may be able to negotiate three.
@@Ironoclasty LOL!!!
The budget was so small that it was the only horse they could afford.
@@alancrofoot - No, they could have definitely afforded horses... but most of the Monty Python cast had absolutely no interest in actually learning how to ride them.
@@Mr.Ekshin Not according to the memory of John Cleese around 1:20 of this interview.
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Aria, your laughter is making this movie 10 times more enjoyable.😂😂
😂😂
You've got to love it when a woman has a good laugh. It's the kind of thing that makes a man want to buy a joke book or two.
No lies detected!
It's great when a reactor genuinely gets the humor. People either get the movie or they don't.
I agree!
They had no horses for two reasons. First, they didn’t have the budget for horses. Second, no one knew how to ride a horse and they lacked the time and money to get lessons. One of the funny things is that the only guy on a horse killed the historian but none of the people arrested had a horse. There are no credits at the end because the people who wrote the credits got fired at the start. The movie ended the way it did because they lacked the money to do anything else. You will understand the style of the story better if you watch some of the old Monty Python and The Flying Circus shows.
after all it is a cop out :)
John Cleese must have had at least some ability to ride a horse, since he was Dennis Moore (whose horse is also named Concorde), around two years before this movie was made. He may have been the only one, though.
Also they spent all their money on moose and llamas.
movies always had the credits at the beginning of the movie before star wars. lucas changed the whole movie watching experience because he wanted the credits at the end so it didn't mess up his opening crawl
Most folks don't get a lot of stuff in the movie because they are no longer familiar with the King Arthur story.
In Game of Thrones, when Daenerys first arrives outside the gates of Meereen, the city sends out a champion to challenge them. He shouts a lot of stuff in Valyrian. If you translate the Valyrian, he is actually saying, "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries."
After all these years, I finally know what he said 😂
Monty Python influencing pop culture to this day!
OMG, I never knew that! 😂😂
Picture a theater full of people, all sitting in the dark, looking at a blank screen and listing to the most gawdawfull music ever. The last "gotcha".
Immediately following the "gotcha" of the extremely short intermission where cinemagoers would have got up to go to the toilet and then had to rush back to their seats.
In Blazing Saddles we had Jim, who most people called… Jim. In this one we’ve got Tim and there are those who call him… Tim.
You have to love a beautiful woman who totally gets Monty Python. You are the first reactor that actually even got the opening credits, and paused them to read them all. Monty Python is a comedy troupe that did several movies, and had a half hour TV show for several years. I highly recommend you watch all of their stuff. Also, the animator is Terry Gilliam, who later goes on to direct Brazil, Time Bandits and several other movies. you are right when you said the writers (all of them) were so smart. All of their stuff has so many layers but that is what makes it funny - it is completely ridiculous and subtly intellectual at the same time. I subscribed because of your reaction.
Not the first, but certainly one of the few who read the opening credits.
I think that pausing poses some logistics complexity for synchronizing audio and video. I think that's why reactors tend to be shy about pausing. Gilliam also plays the Green Knight in this movie.
"12 Monkeys"... (with Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt in it).
The Brave Sir Robin song still kills me lol
When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled...
"She weighs the same as a duck?!?" Yep. Their logic was apparently sound and she turned out to be a witch after all! 🔥🪵🌊🦆⚖🧙♀ 🤦♂😆🤣
"All I can see is my own reflection".....Aria C, you got a deeper meaning from this movie than I did. lol 😄Thanks for your reactions, especially the silly comedies make you laugh the hardest, me too. More silly comedies please!
"I've heard some people say... that... this movie's not for everybody."
British humor can be an _acquired_ taste.
A round of antibiotics should clear it right up.
@@MarcosElMalo2 ..in Jutland?
British humour not humor, humor is a sub standard version of humour. British humour covers all humour, all other countries have a small subset of the overall humour available, so its not an acquired taste its that others have a limited understanding of the overarching humour, ie USA-ians who only get to a relatively low limited level of humor, hence the limited spelling humor, representing the limited amount they are able to comprehend(John Cleese explained this, not me saying it(honest)).
There's more than one type of British humour. Most British comedy is unknown in the US, more was likely shown in Australia for example.
@@robertobrien5709 Tsk-tsk...ALL in the eye of the beholder!
Don't worry sweetie we all got caught by the ending the first time. The credits were at the beginning. Best reaction I've seen.
Fun fact: "What is the capital of Assyria" is a trick question. It had several capitals depending on time period, and didn't even exist by any of the legendary time periods assigned to Arthur. Btw, great channel. You're very cute, genuine, and engaging.
If he had read his Bible more, he could have answered, the Book of Jonah says it's Nineveh."
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!"
Has to be my favorite takedown line, ever.
Wet cats...ain't?
I'm an Emperor cause a moistened bink lobbed a scimitar at me
@@jdhcdfdfnikki3233 Moooooose?
You might want to reconsider that after the last 14 years of Tory rule.
I have this video and have seen it more than 100 times. I'm at your reaction to the "Black Knight" scene and I realize that you are truly one of us.
Glad to be part of the gang😎
Robin's minstrels are my favourite part, along with the "Lady of the Lake" exchange with the peasants.
I would chicken out on my nostrils being r*ped, and my p*nis
Omg those guys are good I start singing the lyrics and can't stop laughing. So real pros at that.
If you didn't notice, the knight that killed the historian couldn't have been part of King Arthur's band. He was the only knight riding a horse, You were right about the lack of horses, they couldn't afford them
11:07 "Your _mother_ was a hamster and your _father smelt_ of _elderberries!"_
No one taunts like the French.
. . . or the English impersonating the French, in this case
A whore and a drunk basically
The music at the end was supposed to play over the end credits but the credit writers were all fired at the beginning of the movie. 👍
The ending was a "Cop Out" - the credits were all done at the beginning of the film and ended up being finished at great expense at the last minute.
the horse gag was conceived long before the film was. On of them came up with the gag and figured it fit well into this film.
“And you shall count to the number three, four you shall not count, neither two; five is right out.”
With Python, one either laughs from the start or spends the whole movie silent and confused. I'm glad you were the former, Aria. I'm sure you'll enjoy the others., 'Life of Brian' and 'Meaning of Life'.
Another M Python cinematic experience (my first intro to the troupe) was "And Now For Something Completely Different", a movie made up of a collection of many of the better bits from several seasons of the TV show, Monty Python's Flying Circus.
"I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!" Dennis is a legend
"Where'd all these people come from? I'd ask, but there's no point." You just summed up the whole humor of the film. You get it. Aria, you are the only young reactor who has ever gotten the humor and really laughed for all the right reasons. Wonderful reaction to Monty Python.
The BEST Holy Grail reaction I have seen... lol Thanks! 😂
Loved the dancing Minnie.
One of the absolute greatest comedies ever made. The Pythons were so on point, comedically, that I can't fathom how people can conjure consistently ridiculous and hilarious comedy but still manage to be intellectually precise.
Also, the death of the animator (Monty Python member, animator and great director Terry Gilliam), as specific as it is, NEVER fails to make me cackle 😂❤
So many favorite lines from Python :
"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
"BRING OUT THE BIG COMFY CHAIR!"
"My dog has no nose." "How does it smell?" "Awful!"
But there are so many iconic skits from The Flying Circus and the movies as well. You can't have just one...
@@texwebb
What's that penguin doing on television?
Standing!
Why did you say Burma?
I panicked!
😂❤😅
@@vopy48 "If someone attaxks you with aBANANNA"
the life of brian! The Life Of Brian!!! THE LIFE OF BRIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! !!! !
One of the greatest Comedies of all-time, as well as one of the most quoted movies in Cinematic History (especially the scenes with the French).
Props to Aria for not cheating at the end and checking how much movie was left! I didn't get to experience this in a theater, but on VHS the VCR didn't show how much tape was left.
The theatrical release didn't have the intermission music at the end. It was added to the VHS version so that people wouldn't think their tape was defective.
Ah this classic, we can thank a number of classic rock bands and members of them for supporting it through partly funding it, such as Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin.
And George Harrison for funding Life of Brian.
@001, indeed, Eric Idle says that George “paid for the most expensive movie ticket in history” simply because he wanted to see the movie.
Genesis was also one of the bands funding this movie If I'm not mistaken.
I swear, if you do Clue next you will have completed my Mt Rushmore of comedy!
Your laughter is infectious. I love that you love this classic so much.
Great reaction to a great movie.. your laugh is infectious 😂❤
Can you see how this film created SO. MANY. MEMES?
The guys who make south park say monty python inspired them, and the film has even been referenced in the Simpsons and Ready Player One. The holy hand grenade is in loads of computer games!
This made my morning! Thanks, Aria! I'm so glad she understood and appreciated the absurdity. There's a lot to love about this film.
If I went 'round, sayin' I was an emperor, just because some moistened bink had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!"
Against Arthur, the French employed a CATTLEPAULT but never used the BULLISTA 🤣
Holy Cow, Arthur was saved by bovine intervention!
@@bossfan49 🤣
1. What about the moose?
2. Paying attention to the opening credits makes it better for everyone, including you.
3. The first time I saw this was in the back of a pickup at a drive-in (it's still here) with my siblings and a couple of friends.
4. Perfect Monty Python where you can just get sucked into something where you don't have to think about anything and just let yourself go.
5. "What ya gonna do? Bleed on me." "we'll call it a draw"
6. Quick bit: "Blow it out your ass"!
7. The ultimate cock block 😭
8. Robin's shield is a chicken.
9.The only horse in the film is ridden by the guy that killed the historian.
10.The ending sucked. It was a cop out. Literally
They ran out of 🤑🤑
I loved your reaction!! You made me feel like I was watching it again for the 1st time and I was living vicariously through you!!!
:)))
I think the "intermission" was just to troll people in the theaters. People would think there was an actual break (it was a thing in old movies), so they'd start getting up to go to the bathroom or get popcorn, then have to sit right back down again 😆
Yes, there are 5 reasons, why you should watch EVERY Monty Python movie. Uhm, no. Three, three ...
#1 They are good.
#2 You liked this one, so you will like them all.
#3 T'was just a flesh wound.
No, really. Just watch them. I watched everything from them and everything from each one of them in their other projects. All were worth it, movies, tv series, even the interviews. Of course, the obvious recommendation is always Life of Brian, but seriously, look up what they all did and watch it. These guys are legend, and it's all intelligent and silly humor and highly entertaining. Totally loved them. I even bought the full transcript of Monty Python's Flying Circus as a book. Like the holy bible of absurd British humor.
Yes, I enjoyed the reaction very much. Have a great week and all the best.
GET ON WITH IT.
Always good to see a reactor who gets the jokes. It is worth watching the opening credits again to get all the jokes there. Note in the final bits they replaced”moose” with “llama”
Had to click immediately! You're right, this movie isn't for everyone. Not everyone has excellent taste in REAL comedy.
Oh I didn’t mean it that way😅 but yeah I don’t know a single person who wouldn’t enjoy this movie💯
@@ariachanson01 My mother.
@@ariachanson01There are a fair number of folks who don’t really enjoy them. They’re definitely an acquired taste for some people.
This movie's ending is a literal "cop out." 😅
Aria, you really should add "A Fish Called Wanda" to your playlist since you enjoyed Monty Python's style of humor. John Cleese (Sir Lancelot and Tim the Enchanter, etc.) and Michael Palin (Sir Galahad, etc.) join Jamie Lee Curtis ("Halloween," "Trading Places") and Kevin Kline (who won an Oscar for this movie) on a crazy comedy jewelry heist.
Faulty Towers is another John Cleese masterpiece. Also with his wife aka the witch.
@@GrantWaller.-hf6jn His wife at the time. She played Polly on "Towers." Such an awesome show.
@@dan_hitchman007yes I own the whole series on DVD. Great stuff. What ever you do don't mention the WAR.
@@GrantWaller.-hf6jn 😅
Aria, you are clearly a genius…you are laughing at all my favorite parts of the movie!! 😂😂
Monthy Python consists of a small band of players, including Michael Palin, John Cleese, Graham Chapman (RIP), Eric Idle, Terry Jones (RIP), and token American Terry Gilliam (yes, the film director, and who also does all the animations for Monty Python films and tv shows). Each member of Monty Python plays multiple characters in their films. For example, John Cleese played Launcelot, the taunting Frenchman, Tim the Enchanter, the villager who turned into a newt, and some others.
Aria, you picked a good one and your right this movie is not for everyone. I think it fits your personality perfectly.😅 You will love it.❤
Definitely loved it💯
"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?" Is one of the funniest lines in a comedy of all time for me, up there with "Was that 0600 in the morning?" and "Hey where the white women at?"
What knockers
Next, the life of Brian 😆
And then hopefully The Meaning of Life. That's the closest to a feature-length episode of Flying Circus and I love it for that ❤
The "famous historian" is the same old guy they hit over the head to put on the kart.
I FEEEEEL HAPPYYYY 😂
The best cop out ending ever!
The Python boys specialized in intellectual absurdism - they reference obscure/esoteric facts or trivia in the service of patently absurd comedic sketches. I'd recommend Monty Python's Life of Brian, if you haven't already seen it. As noted before you started, the Python humor isn't for everyone....so, it's been so much fun to find that your sense of humor (based on your Blazing Saddles video and this one) is so similar to my own. 😃
Keep laughing!!
When I was a kid I was REALLY MAD about the non-ending, I made the mistake of getting invested in the quest lol, but then it became one of my favorite films
Hahaha loved the dancing Minnie at the end 😁
One thing I love about the subtitles thing is that in the cinema there must have loads of people ignoring the 'boring' credits, and have had no idea why other people in there were laughing.
There were two movies I made my kids watch growing up... Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Blazing Saddles. I don't regret either of them. I saw both movies first run in the theater.
I'm so glad you laughed at this movie as you did, Aria! ♥ Every other commenter has mentioned other aspects of the movie so I'll add one that no one has written.
Sir Robin the (not so) Brave was played by Eric Idle, one of the Monty Python members. The guy who played his lead minstrel, as well as the lead monk (hitting themselves with the pieces of wood) was a musician named Neil Innes. Innes had been part of a band in the mid to late 1960s called the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, whose music was often very odd and always fun. He and Eric Idle had become good friends and would later create their own UK TV show, as well as a hilarious comedy satire on the career of The Beatles, but using a fictitious band called The Rutles. The music for the Rutles show was written by Innes and was so close to The Beatles that John Lennon (who loved it) gave Innes and Idle the caution that it was so close to the originals that it may cause copyright lawsuits.
I highly recommend checking out The Rutles, Aria, if you get the chance.
And George Harrison appeared in "All You Need Is Cash", the TV show about The Rutles.
Exactly right, as well as Harrison being an important financial backer for Python's Life Of Brian.
Your name is very familiar to me. Do you have twin younger brothers and went to Caulfeild?
@@Sp33gan yes
@@parissimons6385 After all these years, hi Paris. It's Brian, your neighbour. I've so many memories of you and your wonderful family ♥
Love seeing you doubled over with laughter, so glad you enjoyed this classic!
Not to mention the look of sheer shock you had when that woman weighed as much as a duck, LOL
I had to watch your reaction again!!! You have such a genuine reaction!
I have to say your reactions are just perfect. not too much, not too little!
For several years, the sound of the arrow followed by 'message for you sir' was my email notification.
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Lol
I'm a little late to the comments here, but this is easily the best reaction I've seen to this film. Great stuff! 😂
I could tell, one minute in this was going to be your movie.
Aria, the guy who sings behind sir robin is called a Minstrel, they play an instrument and sing about things, if you want to see what life was like back then, you can read a comic book from marvel comics called Groo the Wanderer, it was by Sergio Arragonnes and Mark Evanier, it was very funny and set a long time ago in the dark ages, and centered around a barbarian and his pet doggie who liked cheese dip. and he met various characters like two witches, a minstrel, a pirate, a swordswoman, and more
You'd love their TV show, _Monty Python's Flying Circus._ Clearly, you get their humor.😁
A total delight to watch someone who appreciates the jokes.
Your laughter is a perfect tonic and reminds me what it was like when I saw it the first time, and I end up laughing with you! It's a great enjoyable film with some wonderful fun moments. Thanks for the cheery vid!
"when danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled"
Great writing
Glad you enjoyed this, you're going to love 'Life of Brian' same team, Monty Python, I think it's even better
Aria, I don't normally comment on reactors, but I have to say that your reaction to MP&THG is the best I've seen from a younger person, anyone for that matter. You had me laughing right from the beginning and I loved it. You have a great sense of humor. If you haven't seen Jojo Rabbit or After Hours from 1985, I would love to see your reactions to those comedies. I really enjoyed your reaction to this. You should also check out their show Monty Python's Flying Circus. It was a great show I grew up on, besides their other movies. Keep up the great reactions.
monty python couldn't have predicted TH-cam reactions 50 years ago, but I'm sure they would have died laughing at people staring at the black screen at the end
😂😂😂
Minnie dancing was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a reaction.
I messed up the audio on that part though😞
@@ariachanson01 it was perfect.
Arrow sound and "message for you sir" is my generic text notification.
Fantastic reaction! Obviously this is your kind of humor since you took it all in stride and enjoyed it so openly. A little slow at the start until you figured out the Swedish bit with the moose. All the credits are "tampered with" to some degree. (Signed Richard M. Nixon!)
The actors did not know how to ride and didn't have the budget for horses, so they adopted the old radio show sound effect and made it a joke. On their TV show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, they ended several sketches with a cop arresting the players. One famous ending had another cop arresting the first one, then another appeared behind him and arrested that one, then a hand reached from behind a doorframe and it cut. All the Python players were highly intelligent and highly educated and their humor had multiple layers. Not only did they jump in time but also location - one sketch had a middle aged lady step out her kitchen door onto the deck of a ship at sea. British absurdist humor at its best.
Long films used to have intermissions in the middle; they trolled their audience by putting one in near the end and making it so short that folks would just get to the door to get a snack and the movie started again. Fun to watch them get caught like that. The end trolled the audience again since by now no one knew what to expect. Just like you, we sat in the dark listening to the music waiting for something else to happen.
Loved every moment of this. Thanks for sharing it and thanks for being you. You are a delight.
I'm sure you can imagine as young teenagers in the 70's we would frequently quote lines at each other from this movie. Especially at school where we knew teachers or adults would have no Idea what on earth we were talking about😂
You would enjoy, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.. strong Monty Python connection
Brave sir Robin ran away hahahaha
You are the first person I've ever seen that got that when the French guy called them kaniggets, he was actually mispronouncing knights on their first watch through. Color me impressed.
Dennis the peasant is one of the best scenes in this film in my eyes. I love his very modern speech on the class system. It makes this film even now quite accurate. And Michael Palin passionate delivery is just perfect for it.
Also 'some wattery tart threw a sword at you... I can almost envision some alternate universe where she throws the sword... right through Arthur's chest/stomach and he dies. OOPS.
As for why they are using the same castle... They only had permission to use one. It was planned three, but the other two said no at the last second, so they just used the same castle at different angles to portray different castles.
26:52 WOW you are the first reactor I have seen that understands they did not have money for actual horses... Ok they had enough money for one horse and they used it to set up the ending.
Did you forget that the credits were at the start of the film?
It's fun to watch this movie with someone who gets it. You were fun to watch with. Oh, I think the "Ni" is just silliness, like you say. Apparently it's not of great importance since they change it before day's end, lol.
Loved your reaction to *The Holy Grail* Aria! You nailed it at the end, that this is a movie you can come back to. Even though I've seen it many times, it still makes me laugh in so many places. While I know a lot of people love *Life of Brian*, this is my favourite of the Monty Python movies.
British humor....It's priceless!
Aria, I'm writing this on your last reaction in hopes that you will see it. I've watched several of your reactions (just finished "The Godfather"), and you've quickly become one of my favorites. I love that you don't constantly talk over the films like so many other reactors do. You're a pleasure to watch, so keep up the good work. Thanks, John. (New subscriber!)
Thankyou❤️
You could maybe try Yellow Submarine if you like that sort of animation. The "intermission" screen was I think to fool people into standing up in the cinema. The ending is a "cop out" in case you've not already been informed :P
End credits not so crazy when you consider that they fired those responsible for the credits during the opening. Great reaction!
Please, please, also watch the "Life of Brian", the next Monty Python movie. And the army came from scene 23.
33:26 "Is that how they end the movie?"
Yes. A _literal_ cop out.
Up until the late 70's, most films had the credits at the beginning, not at the end. That way people had to read them before seeing the movie and therefore the people who made the movies were acknowledged properly (we didn't have IMDB or the internet to look them up). With them at the end, most people get up and leave the cinema in a rush (to avoid the rush). I believe it may have been Star Wars that really started the fad for End Credits.
I absolutely LOVE seeing people experience the end of the movie for the first time. 🙂
You honestly come across as very reserved in terms of displaying emotion, not a bad thing, but I’m glad this movie broke you out of your shell, and seeing you reel over in laughter has made my night. Now subbed.
This movie became a weekly thing to see at our cinema, like The Wall and Rocky Horror. And Ni means Ni. That is all what it means. Nothing less, and nothing more. Just Ni. Get it? Ni.
First time I´ve seen someone actually understanding all the sillyness and laughing at the right place :) Love you! Now I´ll make a very brave retreat.
Gallantly he chickened out :D
The French catapulting a cow is based on a real story. A besieged town that almost ran out of food, decided to catapult all the food they had. The besiegers who also were running out of resources and food were convinced the town had enough food to go on for months and probably years. So they lifted the siege.
Great to see that this movie was for you. It was great to see you laughing and getting the jokes.
I have seen this many times and I think it's brilliant. I only recently noticed though that at the castle Arghhh, they have to get a boat to take them there but after the vicious attack by the french taunting they walked back across.
Aria, your reactions to the movies are so genuine, it is like watching a movie with a friend.
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I love these reaction videos, but I think this is about the best one I've watched regarding this film. A lot of people watching it miss so many of the jokes but you cottoned on to most of them straight away.
Ni was something a teacher that Michael Palin had at school who always said Ni when he bent down to pick up a book from a lower shelf.
No doubt a few people will suggest Life Of Brian, which is brilliant, to watch, but I'd also suggest And Now For Something Completely Different which is a collection of sketches from the TV series and there's also Monty Python At The Hollywood Bowl, both of which are great.
BTW, yes, they couldn't afford horses. lol
Life of Brian was so hilarious, can’t wait to watch more Monty Python stuff😅
(Lots of trivia, please check it out)
Kudos for watching the entire end! Movies (especially long ones) back in the day used to have intermissions at the half way point (Ben Hur, My Fair Lady I think) so you can take a restroom break or stretch from sitting; that it was inserted almost at the end was the joke. Credits also used to be shown at the beginning so you can get settled, like a musical where the overture is played (West Side Story for example). Then you can leave immediately when the movie ends. Spamalot was based on this movie, which is based on the Monty Python show, various comedy skits and cuts to things not related to anything else. Minnie seemed to know what was coming, love the bonus dance!
I knew the Arthur legend since a kid, but Dennis saying "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for government". I'm like huh, never thought of that, he's right!
This movie exist because of a Beatle. George Harrison put the money up for them to make it :)
I really enjoyed your reaction. I enjoyed your laughter and smiling and some of the more ridiculous parts of the movie. This is one of my favorite movies. So silly and so funny.