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Awful

posted 11 years ago by ccr1633
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This insufferable documentary, nominally about Graham Chapman, is just a vanity exercise for the filmmakers. Instead of maintaining focus on their subject, they use their subject as an excuse to inject puerile animations at every turn. This trio of pompous documentarians really wants to make a film about themselves, not the great GC. The unsubtle, cutesy animations are neither clever or funny, and stand in stark contrast to the sublime humor of the nominal film subject (whose name is...wait...I've forgotten....oh yeah...Graham Chapman; it's easy to forget while watching this wretched doc).

[–] spstou 11 years ago

You do realize it's all based on a book GC wrote?

[–] Littlebitsofgaming 11 years ago

I know what you mean.
If only the title suggested this was not 100% factual.

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[–] ghoolsby 10 years ago

No animation from Terry Gilliam? Anyway, some of the Pythons voiced the characters, so check it out. It's free on Amazon Prime.

[–] has_no_pseudonym 10 years ago

1) It's not a documentary, maybe if you'd realized that you wouldn't have viewed the film so harshly.
2) You must not have been paying attention if you were forgetting about him, his voice is heard throughout and actual film is shown of him. And except for a few brief sequences he's involved with every section, even if the character "Graham Chapman" was not present.
3) Puerile? Then I guess you think Chapman is puerile, rather than "the great", since the source material was written by him. Can't blame the animators, they were given chapters from the book: A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI by Graham Chapman, Douglas Adams, David Sherlock and Alex Martin.

[–] Shaolin_Apu 10 years ago

It was somewhat 'awful' but I thank all the powers of the universe that it wasn't about some cheesy nostalgy with sentimental music on the background. Python was (and is) outrageous comedy, and for me this was the only 'new' Python film I ever saw.

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