Life of Brian

1979 "He's not the messiah...he's just a naughty boy."
8| 1h34m| R| en
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Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.

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Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
adonis98-743-186503 Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah. Life of Brian is just god-awful and i mean the first part. This movie basically makes a total fun of religion, the bible and jesus in general and sure there's some other films that do that as well but those are good movies and don't have such a ridiculous high rating and even got somehow inside the Top 250. I couldn't even find a single good thing about this piece of garbage movie it's just so awful. (0/10)
JohnnyLee1 Genius. Watch out for George Harrison as man lending mounts on Palm Sunday!
Prichards12345 Nothing better than shaking up the establishment a bit, I say. "Nail em up" as Ben would respond. This is classic Python, funny from first to last, and often hysterically so. It's probably the most seamless of their films, and displays an intelligence quite rare in comedy.This tale of a man mistaken for the messiah had a message that seems even more appropriate today in some ways than when it was made. Don't follow anyone. Make your own mind up!Great performance from Graham Chapman as Brian, Cleeses hilarious Ceturion; but surely pride of place should go to Palin and Idle. Palin's Pilate is one of the greatest ever comedy showings. Idle's Mr. Cheeky is utterly brilliant. The Python team are all great. Terry Jones' Mandy is brilliant, too. Salute the Python team, not the messiahs but very funny boys.
classicsoncall For the sake of this review I watched the entire movie, but I've got to say, it was a chore keeping my attention on the story. Criterion really dropped the ball on this one, they should have provided captioning for those of us who only speak English. I hardly understood a word spoken in the film, but I held out hope that the basic premise would reveal itself the way it has in other movies that I've had trouble following. No such luck. This thing started out way over the top and wound up just utterly stupid. I generally enjoy good parody but this seemed more like goofy slapstick. Could be I'm missing something because this gets a lot of credit by IMDb fans who's voting keep it in the Top #250. Maybe I'll try it again if I can find a copy with captioning, I'm open minded enough to give it another go. For now, my only positive takeaway was the Roman Centurion garb, those guys looked pretty sharp.