The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset combines the original 14-DVD megaset with the two-disc Monty Python Live (VL-11/01) in space-saving Thinpaks. While more cautious fans may want to pick and choose among the previously released individual volumes of Monty Python for their collection, true Pythonites will want to own this definitive compilation that contains all 45 episodes (in chronological order) of Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969-1974). This "persistently silly" collection encompasses three-and-a-half seasons of dead parrots, cross-dressing lumberjacks, loonies, upper class twits, and Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, and Spam. Click past the occasional clunker and go directly to such signature sketches as the Ministry of Silly Walks, the Spanish Inquisition, the Fish-Slapping Dance, the Dead Parrot Sketch, the Lumberjack Song, the Cheese Shop, the Argument Clinic, and Nudge, Nudge. Taken as a whole, one marvels at how Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam thoroughly subverted television convention with “something completely different.” But more precious is an audience with Python, and as close as we can get is Live at the Hollywood Bowl, the long-sought-after 1982 concert film in which the Fab Six perform their greatest hits before a wildly enthusiastic crowd (included in Monty Python Live). DVD extras include highlights, galleries, trivia, Pythonisms, and more. Highly recommended. [Note: Monty Python's Flying Circus: Eric Idle's Personal Best and Monty Python's Flying Circus: Michael Palin's Personal Best are also newly available, priced at $19.95 each.] (D. Liebenson)
The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset
New Video, 16 discs, 1,749 min., not rated, DVD: $199.95 Volume 20, Issue 6
The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset
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