Monty Python's and Now for Something Completely Different
1971 · Movie · PG · 88 min · ★ 7.2 · 83% critics
This sketch-comedy compilation brings together re-shot highlights from the first two seasons of a British TV series, mixing absurd scenarios, satirical bits, and surreal animated interludes. With no single storyline to follow, it plays like a “greatest hits” sampler where some sketches land harder than others, but the overall spirit is anarchic and unpredictable.
Also known as Monty Python And Now for Something Completely Different
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Details
- Original title
- And Now for Something Completely Different
- Years
- 1971
- Release date
- 1971-09-28
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Critic score
- 83/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (582 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a fast, varied taste of offbeat British sketch humor, especially if you like Monty Python's Flying Circus or Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Not for you if you need a single plot or consistent laughs.
Pros: classic sketch highlights; surreal animated bits; plenty of quotable moments | Cons: uneven hit-or-miss; some jokes feel dated; sketches can run long
Themes
- blackmail
- stupidity
- spoof
- compilation
- lumberjack
- sketch comedy
- dead parrot
- twit
- intentional mistranslation
- foot race
- obstacle course
- anarchic comedy
Cast & crew
Graham Chapman
as Brother / Policeman / Defence attorney / British pedestrian / Mr. Harrison (Apricot) / The Colonel / 'Hell's Grannies' policeman / Jimmy Blankensop / Sir Edward Ross / Restaurant patron #1 / Letter Writer / Oliver St. John Mollusk / Mountie / Town Guild Lady
John Cleese
as Announcer / Hungarian Citizen / self - Defence Teacher / Sir George Head / Policeman / Interviewer / Mr. Praline / Second General / Christopher Columbus / Mungo the Cook / Bank Robber / Accountant #2 (falling past the window) / Vocational Guidance Counselor / Vivian Smith Smythe Smith / Mountie / Town Guild Lady
Terry Gilliam
as Self-Defence Nun / Flasher / Uncle Sam / Caterpillar Man / Sign Holder / Conrad Poohs
Eric Idle
as Prosecutor / Marriage Counselor / Arthur Nudge / Self-defence student #4 (interested in pointed sticks) / 'Hell's Grannies' analyst / Arthur Wilson / Arthur Wilson Two / Nightclub Emcee / Linkman / First General / Restaurant Manager / Lingerie Shop Owner / Accountant #1 (falling past the window) / Fairy Godmother / Rita Fairbanks / Simon Zinc Trumpet Harris / Mountie / Lady With Cookbook
Terry Jones
as Stage Manager / Tobacconist / 2nd Hungarian Man / Squire / Self-defence student #3 / Tenant #1 / Flasher / Mouse Organist Ken Ewing / Fat Soldier / Waiter / Nude Organist / Brian / Nigel Incubator Jones
Michael Palin
as Gumby / Man with tape recorder / Phrasebook Author / Arthur Pewtey / Second self - defence student / Second Tenant / Lost His Wallet / Shrill Petrol Announcer / Milkman / Ernest Scribbler / Pet shop employee / Lumberjack / Headwaiter Gilberto / Herbert Anchovy / Blackmail Presenter / Gervais Brookhamster / Town Guild Lady
Carol Cleveland
as Dierdre Pewtey / Storyteller / Milkman Collector / Restaurant Patron #2 / Elsbeth
Connie Booth
as Best Girl
- LJ
Lesley Judd
as Distraught Mother
Directed by Ian MacNaughton