King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".
Python's delightful and, on the whole, consistent reductio ad absurdum of the Grail legend.
– Chris Petit,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
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Monty Python's Flying Circus, the British comedy group which gained fame via BBC-TV, send-up Arthurian legend, performed in whimsical fashion with Graham Chapman an effective straight man as King Arthur.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
4 Sep 2008
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Silly, sophomoric, and slapped together -- but would you want it any other way?
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
29 Mar 2011
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Grail is as funny as a movie can get, but it is also a tough-minded picture -- as outraged about the human propensity for violence as it is outrageous in its attack on that propensity.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
29 Mar 2011
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Here is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which is neither as sparkling as it is said to be nor as bad as it seems to be at the start. But it's pretty good.