We're probably opposites then: I love Holy Grail (minus the last 15 minutes which was a sloppy ending), since every new scene offers something to truly laugh yourself silly over. I didn't get that with Life of Brian.
Maybe it was because everyone hyped it up, and acted in surprise when I said I hadn't seen it before. People would quote it when the subject was ever brought up, so lines like "He's not the messiah..." and the whole Jehovah spiel just didn't have the effect they were supposed to. Next to everything else felt forced and the jokes didn't feel like they were going anywhere.
I haven't seen any of the other Monty Python stuff, and I don't think I'll bother in future. The British comedy scene has much better shows and films to offer in my opinion.
Over-hype does tend to make things a bit more lackluster when you actually see them. This happened with me with Prometheus. It's certaionly not a bad movie, but it's not worthy of all the hype it recieved. Also, I hear the blu-ray has a director's commentary. Sucks that the DVD doesn't. It's one of those movies that NEEDS one such commentary to be understood properly. The folk on the Outpost 31 forums with the blu-ray version seem to have so much better an undstanding of the movie, that it's not funny. The DVD answers NOTHING.






















