A bit uneven for Python but enough laughs to recommend

| Nov 23, 2024

While it’s the least cohesive of the Python feature films, it’s also possibly the film that is most true to the Python ethos.

| Mar 26, 2024

...probably best enjoyed as separate clips on YouTube, or with liberal use of the fast-forward button...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2021

The Meaning of Life is one of the Monty Python's better films. But its innocence remains intact. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 30, 2019

Some of the sketches are inspired... Some of the sketches are merely loud and boring the Pythons are at their unfunniest in drag. Even devout Pythonians might question some of the items.

| Oct 22, 2018

Does the attack work? Only occasionally.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 19, 2018

If The Meaning of Life is undeniably tasteless, it is also imaginative and played with a soft edge that never reads as bitter, only mischievous.

| Apr 2, 2018

As youthful and contemporary as ever.

| Dec 13, 2013

Despite its obvious shortcomings, The Meaning of Life also happens to be devastatingly funny at times, hitting a few beats of silliness with traditional Python precision.

| Original Score: B | Nov 23, 2013

The skits range from hilarious to humdrum.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 6, 2013

It's a weird kind of fun.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 9, 2013

Edgy Python schtick better for older viewers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 27, 2009

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Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 1, 2005

Perfect Python!

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 5, 2004

Prime Monty Python, primo laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 15, 2004

Mostly dead-on and characteristically Pythonesque.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 11, 2004

Spotty and fitfully very funny. Lacks the structure of the other Python big screen films.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 29, 2004