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Last of the Post-Python classics?


After watching this I realised that there hasn't really been any movie since that I would regard as having post-python humour. Eric Idle and John Cleese did get slated for their performances in this film but I still admire them as they kept that python humour alive and they still looked young! Fierce creatures and Wind in the willows I would not consider as python humour as they are generally children's movies. Cleese is now part of that American machine of mainstream (shrek, james bond, harry potter) although he is still a fantastic comic actor. Palin hasn't done a movie since Fierce creatures which was more like a favour rather than a desire to be in it. Idle's somewhere touring in America. Jones is not doing very much (although he did a programme on the BBC recently) and Gilliam isn't churning out the movies that he used to. I doubt there will ever be any more proper post-python collobarations as sadly these guys are too busy doing other things but also...they are getting on a bit. Is this the end of an era?

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Fierce Creatures a Children's Movie? Watch it again... especially the scenes involving Rollo and the "animal orgies"

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A children's movie compared to what they usually make.

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Well the movie is rated 12 in the UK and I think I would class 12 year olds as children. Times change, attitudes change and all that media mumbo jumbo so basically it would be classed as a children's film. The amount of sexual innuendo in Flying Circus I would say is much more blatantly crude than in Fierce Creatures. I have noticed that nobody has actually answered my initial question....

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richardperkins asks:

"Is this the end of an era?"

No, just a long pause. Python kind of humor is eternal.

my god its full of stars

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Well John Cleese has retired from sitcoms recently (although I'm not sure about movies). Do you think there will be any more reuniting of the pythons in the cinema?

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They're all pretty old now. I'm sure some of them still have some good stuff left, but it's a little silly to be expecting the return of classic Python or anything like that. It's been a long time since I've seen this film, but as I remember it was not bad, it made me laugh at least. Eric Idle recently has gone downhill though IMO. His tours have been painfully unfunny, as is Spamalot.

Children's film or not, I think Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (aka Wind in The Willows) was the most Python-like of the post-Python material since the 80s at least. And probably the best too...

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Um...Richard Perkins- probably not the one I knew in highschool.......
I wanna know the Opening song title.....

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"SOMEONE STOLE MY BABY" by Eric Idle. I doubt you know me, I'm from London and went to a crappy all boys secondary school.

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Just maybe the last of that era...I never thought about it like that...That song is great by the way as is the film, (well great;s an overstatement, but coming across it again as i did very very recently, this long forgotten movie was surprisingly solid even if it includes Rick Moranis in its Pythonverse.)...Perhaps if it hadn't bombed completely at the box office Eric Idle wouldn't have been reduced to Suddenly Susan...The good news is he's more successful than ever thanks to Spamalot...so all things going in cycles..maybe the next thing is another Monty Python film after all...A Man can dream right???? I mean if Cleese was doing 3rd Rock From the Sun and Will and Grace, he can't be completely retired right??? and I know Rick Moranis isn't doing anything--maybe ring him up again, see if he's game... also as a note---who the hell was catherine zeta jones to land a lead role her first time out--that's quite a coup--and Barbara Hershy--oh yeah...queen of the underrated movies (The Public Eye, The Pallbearer, she's got a real streak here.)


Someone Get This Moose Off Me

Someone STole My Baaayyyybeeee Awwwwwaaay-ey-ey-
Someone Came And Stole My Happiness Awwaayy-ey-ey
and now he's gonna have to pay somedayy-ey-ey
that is pretty catchy actually

man my closet rocks with these prev viewed vhs tapes i found...thats some magic tapes i found. lesson here is never forget what you stow away in your closet cause seven, eight years later you can be pleasently surprised...

(found this tape with a dozen others or so in the bottom shelf of my closet when i was completely bored and nothing on tv so i was goin thru old things and found these tapes...good find)

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Wow, you think Harry Potter's American mainstream? You seriously need to go get your head checked, love. The reason all of the characters have British accents (they're British!), the reason the entire cast is British, save a few? (The book is British!) The reason that many places listed are in the UK? (It takes PLACE in the UK!) Seriously... you need to get your head checked, mate.

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Hmm, ok let me get my head checked...hang on...nearly there...yep all done! Right, last time I checked Harry Potter was massively popular in the USA (aka "the mainstream"). You're right, there is a huge British cast behind it as well. Production is mainly American, distributors are American and most importantly it is part of the American mainstream because it makes so much money out there. I think you need to sit in a dark corner and quietly think (if that's possible for you) about what you said.

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On second thought, probably...they probably know better than to regroup and try to reproduce the novelty they are famous for. Better for fans of MP to just watch the reruns and wait for a new group with something different.

my god its full of stars

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