Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life has generally received positive reviews.
Review of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 26 Aug 2000
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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Jul 2001
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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Dec 1994
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By Ian Nathan (392) for Empire (3,446) on 16 Feb 1991
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life was released in 1983 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 12 reviews, giving Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) an average rating of 73%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 78%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 73%.
With a score of 73%, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1983, which stands at 58%.
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