In this high-camp farce, Goons legend Spike Milligan stars as William Topaz McGonagall, an unemployed Scottish weaver and aspiring poet laureate who falls in love with Queen Victoria - a brilliant cameo by Peter Sellers - and thereafter devotes his banal poetry to her. Though McGonagall's solicitations are rejected by the Queen, it doesn't stop the turgid prose, and pathos, from overflowing as McGonagall hilariously attempts to become the greatest poet in the land. The image of the bad poet, trapped by his romanticism and inspired by a muse with a tin ear, appealed mightily to Spike Milligan, and this cult British spoof features the Goons show maestro at his ridiculous, genre-defying best.
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The Great McGonagall was released in 1975 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 3 reviews, giving The Great McGonagall (1975) an average rating of 49%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 73%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Great McGonagall a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 49%, The Great McGonagall is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1975, which stands at 60%.
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