DirkH’s review published on Letterboxd:
The thing about comedy is that it is maybe the most personal genre there is and therefore I think comedies are the most difficult films to get right. Python has been in my life for as long as I can remember, so to say that that particular gang of people has shaped my sense of humour is an understatement.
This film to me is the Holy Grail of comedies .....pauses for laughter..... it appeals to everything I find funny. It is completely absurd, off its rockers, very witty and silly without resorting to the cheap shots of the 'Oh my God I farted' variety.
Usually their films feel like an unstructured string of sketches. Here, however, they manage to find some kind of coherence in their insanity which actually works really well. Each member of the group is fantastic, held together by the incredible Chapman, of whom I still wish he was around, I would really have loved to have seen what he would have gotten up to post-Python.
One of the best comedies ever made? Hell yes!
Oh, and your mother smells of elderberries, you son of a motherless goat!