Okay, so this typically madcap and irreverent Monty Python romp doesn't actually answer the major existential question posed by the title, but that quietly simply doesn't matter considering how delightfully brash, rude, and outrageous this movie often is. The humor ranges from crude to surreal to super dry and deadpan, with a majority of the gags scoring bull's eyes. Among the more inspired and uproarious sketches are the amazing opening short in which a bunch of oppressed elderly white office workers revolt against their employers, the grim reaper crashing a posh party, the infectiously jaunty "Galaxy Song," a grotesquely obese man literally puking gallons of vomit at a fancy restaurant, a live man having his liver gruesomely removed, a teacher wearily demonstrating sex to his bored and disinterested students, and, most sidesplitting of all, the positively gut-busting "Every Sperm is Sacred" song and dance number. John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, and Graham Chapman are all in fine form. An absolute riot.

Directed in 1983, by Terry Jones co-creator and member of the comedy company Monty Python, the English group employs to the film a division in "sketches" somewhat common the television humorous series, and that during the film is explained through the acid humor , Its division is due to the inability of the public to follow a long and continuous history without commercial breaks or that does not introduce throughout history violence, sex explicit or anything else stupid to the point of being censored and provoke controversy enough to take people Of the screen of a TV and to arouse the interest of going to see a movie in the cinema.This sour, debauched, witty and playful tone will be present in all divisions and sub-divisions of "The Meaning of Life," yet the script will be careful enough to create connections between stories which is done very simply and Effective, and with great humor.The film is divided into about eight chapters: The Miracle of Birth; Growth and Learning; Fighting each other; Middle-age; Liver organ transplants; The Autumn Years; The meaning of life; Death - and when these frames connect the effect is even more fun.At the same time, the use of "sketches" allows a dynamic and propensity to encourage the audience to stick with moments and images that interest them the most, the opposite is also true if we have a brilliant opening with metaphors and that today (2017) envisions traces of foresight of our future, where the world abolishes the labor system through labor (like the old slaves of the building that sails in the economic sea), to live a financial economy and actions. If this opening frame is mastered and will be device for linking to another chapter, stories like the English army, are ineffective for any analysis of the film. They do not corroborate in any way, and the impression that it causes, is to be an instrument of relief for a previous joke more complex, intellectualized and consequently respire for those who do not understand or for those who are still reflecting. This gap between intellectual laughter and easy laughter will be presented at other times with the same effect.A memorable moment appears in the chapter, the autumn years, specifically in the "sketche": "The Autumn Years," in which a monstrously fat Mr. Creosote eats wildly and when he receives a small piece of chocolate, he explodes. Something that for us Brazilians is very familiar when we remember Mrs. Redonda, emblematic character created by Dias Gomes for the telenovela "Saramandaia", whose end of the character is the same as that of Mr. Creosote.There are many good moments in the 1983 film, my favorite is that of a group of pompous dinner guests who are interrupted by the visit of the "Death" (Grim Reaper), in short, everyone who is there will die and when asked why Of so many deaths at a dinner, behold the answer is due to a simple salmon mousse, and the climax comes from the comment of a lady (Michael Palin), who with his unpretentiousness says: "I did not even eat the mousse." This speech is supposed to have been improvised, and because it is so well used it provokes laughter, carries a subtlety that assists in the inquiry not only of the motive of death, but also in the sense of life, where there is no apparent meaning, everything is mere Conditions that are mostly caused by the desire of man.In the quest to answer the philosophical title which is also the main argument of "The Meaning of Life," we realize that in the end the answer is less interesting compared to the pleasurable process in attempting to answer it. Perhaps the answer of some sense, is the way of the (eternal) search.

The comedy troupe Monty Python takes on the biggest question of all, the Meaning of Life, or do they? The group includes Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. It starts off with life insurance pirates. The set design and imagination is the impressive aspect for that one. Ultimately, the movie is uneven but brilliant at times. There are sections that are utterly memorable and superior. My favorite is the song 'Every Sperm Is Sacred'. The surreal creatures are weird. The fat vomiting diner is brilliant. Not every section works. The movie is uneven but that are some really unforgettable bits.

I am only recently converted to join the massive fan base for the Monty Python team. I fell in love with MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL and I've kept my eye out for another chance to enjoy their particular brand of insanity. I finally stumbled across THE MEANING OF LIFE, of which I'd only seen bits, in the local Target and grabbed an anniversary edition, settling in for some off-kilter hilarity. In the end, it was…hard to nail down. I didn't dislike the movie but it sure wasn't at the level of laughs of HOLY GRAIL. No doubt it has some great moments but there was a lot that fell short and sort of leaves my final overall impression as less than memorable. The Python troupe (Eric Idle, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, & Terry Gilliam) has chosen the topic of their final film to be the most important, all- encompassing theme: the meaning of life. The British comedy legends will lead us from the miracle of birth, where modern hospitals seem more interested in machines that go "ping!" than the beauty of new life, to death and the Christmas paradise that awaits once we cross the pearly gates. Along the way, we'll be treated to singing, dancing, surrealism, philosophy, fish, and violent organ removal. THE MEANING OF LIFE is more sketch film than traditional narrative and the individual parts are mostly entertaining, with some lulls that wreak havoc on the pacing of the film as a whole.I'll approach this movie as I would an anthology film by comparing what worked against what failed. The less-than-stellar stuff first: the short feature before the actual film, "The Crimson Permanent Assurance", wasn't the greatest way of kicking it all off. It's an amusing premise. We've got a crew of old man working for an insurance company that has recently been bought out by the Very Big Corporation of America, and they stage a mutiny reminiscent of classic pirate adventure films. My issue is that it runs on way too long, going a full 15 minutes before we ever actually get to the real film. It wouldn't be so aggravating if the premise weren't so thin. Old men in makeshift pirate garb using accountant instruments as weaponry is funny for a few minutes, not a quarter hour. "The Crimson Permanent Assurance" is the film's largest weakness but a nearly two-hour film loaded with skits is bound to have some dips in quality. I didn't care for the segment where Palin and Idle are a middle-aged couple in a dungeon-themed restaurant struggling through a conversation on philosophy while Cleese puts on an ear-punishing Texan accent as their waiter. It occurs somewhere around the middle of the film and ruins the pacing of an otherwise funny film. The end suffers similarly with the "Christmas in Heaven" musical sequence that hopes to elicit some chuckles with Graham Chapman doing his best Tony Bennett impression while surrounded by women in weird plastic breasts.THE MEANING OF LIFE might have severe pacing issues and it's share of lulls but there's still some real great material that keeps the movie fun. Once we get through the Permanent Assurance stuff in the beginning, it all kicks off with some hilarious stuff regarding birth. The film's first (and possibly best) musical number kicks off with Palin as a destitute father in Yorkshire, England with "Every Sperm is Sacred", but my personal favorite occurs later in the film with Eric Idle and his "Galaxy Song" dropped in the middle of the inexplicable segment on live organ transplants. What have live organ transplants got to do with the meaning of life? No idea, it's just another fun bit of absurdity from the men who've mastered it. THE MEANING OF LIFE is at it's best when the Python team are at their weirdest: Mr. Creosote, the Find the Fish segment, and the strange bit during the Anglo-Zulu War when some British officers must handle an emergency situation where one of their own suffered a rather severe bite over the course of the night. It's stuff like this that makes any weak points forgivable over the course of THE MEANING OF LIFE and, despite finding myself frustrated or bored at times, it's still funny enough and origin to some iconic hilarious bits to be considered classic. It's far from the level of MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL but even the worst Monty Python is above and beyond most of the "comedies" we get now.