Metacritic Film

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (re-release)

Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin

MPAA RATING: PG

Columbia Pictures
Comedy
91 minutes | Color
UK
Released In Theaters June 15, 2001

A theatrical re-release of the 1975 Python classic, with a new print, additional footage, and remastered soundtrack.

WRITTEN BY
Graham Chapman
John Cleese
Terry Gilliam
Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin

DIRECTED BY
Terry Gilliam
Terry Jones

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

90 / 100

Critic Reviews

100	New Times (L.A.) What we have here is an historical document of inestimable value, describing in no uncertain terms the terrible and beautiful times before AIDS.
100	Baltimore Sun It's still the Holy Grail of crazy comedy.
100	Boston Globe Nobody ever placed brilliance in the service of silliness quite the way the Python gang did. Monty Python and the Holy Grail is stuffed with both.
88	Chicago Tribune An incredibly silly film of great humor, brilliant design and epic insanity.
80	Chicago Reader Dave Kehr Silly, sophomoric, and slapped together, but would you want it any other way?
80	Los Angeles Times Has a sense of humor that is intellectual, even academic, at heart.
75	Philadelphia Inquirer Still stands as a gloriously silly and twisted send-up.
70	Variety Staff (Not credited) Basically an excuse for set pieces, some amusing, others overdone.

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