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MONTY PYTHON’S THE MEANING OF LIFE
September 9, 2026
19:30
The Meaning Of Life is, unsurprisingly, the Monty Python chaps making jokes about the meaning of life. Through a series of vaguely connected sketches, they take us through the various stages of life: birth, learning, fighting people, middle age, live organ transplants and death. [...]
The Meaning Of Life is Monty Python in film form, at their purest and rawest. It's the culmination of everything they've learnt about comedy mixed together and poured out. [...] Take a silly idea and push it and push it and push it. Take another silly idea and lay it on top of the first silly idea. Let them mix together and then push the result to the extreme. That's Monty Python.
As always, there's sublime dialogue that suggests it could be just as funny if it was read by the audience, rather than performed. As always, there are inspired performances that quickly remind you that it couldn't possibly be as funny if you weren't watching them. As always, the surreality is linked and interspersed with Terry Gilliam's even more surreal animations, that come very close to being the best thing in the film. There are instantly quotable catchphrases and incredibly catchy songs to sing along with, if you're not too busy laughing.
What more could you want? The Meaning Of Life is as entertaining the tenth time you watch it as the first.
- Keith Dudhnath (Eye for Film)