The Movie: A lot of nerds out there live and die by Monty Python. They think that Monty Python is a higher form of humor and that everything else is crap. I personally have never particularly cared much for Monty Python, but everyone says they are great, so hey why not try some? Well, personally, I didn't like this movie very much. I didn't think it was that funny, and I got really annoyed with the guy who was playing Brian's mother. There's only so much screeching of a guy doing a bad falsetto to be a woman that I can handle. Some hardcore geeks would probably say I'm stupid and unsophisticated for even suggesting that this movie had unfunny parts, but hey, most of it was unfunny to me, although it had some moments.

But basically this story is set in the time that Jesus was alive and it's about a guy named Brian who gets mistaken for being the messiah through a series of wacky coincidences. Well, to be honest, the only reason why I got this movie is because it was about a guy named Brian. And I didn't really like it, condescending geeks be damned.

The DVD: As is the case with many Critereon Collection DVD's, the special features are superb -- that is, if you have any interest in this movie at all. I didn't like the movie, so the special features weren't that exciting to me. But if someone was a fanatical fan of this movie or Monty Python in general, they would probably like the special features enough. Particularly interesting to me were the inclusion of the original radio commercials in addition to theatrical trailers and other stuff. The film was presented in anamorphic widescreen format that looked pretty good, but they did not remix the sound into a 5.1 mix -- but why they would really need to I cannot see. So yeah. I mean, it's a good DVD if you like the movie. The menus are cool too -- if you liked the movie hehe.