Monty Python Live | 
| Directors: Ian Macnaughton, Terry Hughes
Actors: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones
Studio: A&E Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 19136
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 77
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1.3
MPN: AAED70353D
ISBN: 076704150X
UPC: 733961703535
EAN: 9780767041508
ASIN: B00005O7NE
Theatrical Release Date: June 25, 1982
Release Date: October 23, 2001
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Condition: Fast Shipping! Excellent condition, has some shelf-wear but looks like new.
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Product Description
Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 10/22/2002 Run time: 225 minutes Rating: Nr
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Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982) serves up a great, steaming pile of the famed British comedy troupe's finest, funniest, and foulest work. Culled from their four-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl in 1980, this selection of sketches and songs includes some of the most storied material from the BBC series, Monty Python's Flying Circus. Numbers include the sexually confused lumberjack, the Ministry of Silly Walks, the Argument Clinic, and the exploding balladeer. Some of the group's funnier short-film pieces are featured as well, including the International Philosophy Match (Germany vs. Greece) and Terry Gilliam's animated pieces. This program is a fine introduction for viewers unaccustomed to Monty Python's peculiar brand of humor, and it will become clear where The Kids in the Hall got their shtick. Monty Python aficionados will enjoy seeing the lads do their thing for a live crowd, and there's a nice (though "nice" hardly seems the word) rapport with the audience. The sketches are looser and less hermetic than those in the Monty Python show or movies, such as 1974's Monty Python and the Holy Grail or 1983's Monty Python's the Meaning of Life. Aside from the unusual setting, there's nothing particularly revelatory about Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl. But for Python fans and fanatics--and they are legion--this won't matter a jot. -- Nick Poppy
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| Customer Reviews: Read 29 more reviews...
 Good for every collection... August 13, 2008
For a new Python fan, like myself, this DVD set would give you some of the best laughs! The Monty Python team are at it with live performances, interviews, sketches, and quite possibly a German lesson for you.
For me, this DVD was a birthday present and I got the best of my money out of it. At this price, it's a great buy!
Classic Python!!! May 24, 2008
One of the best Monty Python out there!
Great versions of classic skits, Shoot soda out your nose funny!
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For a huge fan of Monty Python, this is a must have for those who do not already own most of it. For the price it sells at, I was not worried that I already had "Live At The Bowl" or "Fliegender Zirkus" on DVD already. They have been available on DVD in Australia since DVD's first went on sale.
However, I can tell you that Flie-Zir may be of better quality then the the original DVD release, but, the Hollywood Bowl is about the same quality as the original crappy DVD transfer. I'd recommend also picking up the newer release that Sony have released. (may only currently be released in region 2&4)
The next is Steve Martin hosting a best of show called "Parrot Skecth, not included". Not exactly live tho, it shows the best bits of the Flying Circus. Decent to watch if you have never seen it before. But any python fan will just say it's cut up and trimmed down pieces of longer and funnier sketches.
The best is Live In Aspen... which is a 1998 reunion hosted by whats-his-name and it is just great to see the MP team on stage again, and still being able to pull off laughs as well as ever. Mostly it's interviews and bits of the show and movies, but it is highly entertaining and worth the price of purchase alone.
Also in the DVD's there are some bonus features of a few little sketches and weird bits. I can't really remember anything memorable in the bonus features, but you might find something you like.
- Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl ** (the other release is much clearer and sounds better then this one)
- Monty Python's Flying Circus: Live at Aspen ****
- Parrot Sketch Not Included: 20 Years of Python ***
- Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus: German Episode #1 **
Overall, purchase if you are a fan of MP and cant get enough of them. For myself I found tho some of it is disappointing in quality, but the Aspen show was worth the price of purchase alone.
Monty Python's Greatest Hits Live August 6, 2007
This movie is a perfect introduction to Python ignoramae, given that it features many of their best bits, a few of their naughty bits, and some pleasurable musical numbers. I could've done with more Neil Innes, fresh from his work as The Rutles; the brevity of time spent with his work pegs my review down a notch. If only the film could have had Neil singing "I Must Be In Love" or "Cheese & Onions". The troupe also integrated the audience into a few routines, which shows they could've toured if they wanted to, to great success.
A final note: this film is remarkable in that it features more of Terry Gilliam on camera (a good thing), and has Eric Idle singing "The Lumberjack Song", instead of Michael Palin (an interesting thing). Eric's voice is better for the stage, whereas Michael seems to over-sing live (i.e., Concert For George).
Live at the Hollywood Bowl + Extras December 21, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you're a Python fan, you've probably seen all their TV episodes and their major feature films. This two-DVD set collects material you probably haven't seen, namely their concert film "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" and their early 1970s appearance on German television.
"Hollywood Bowl" is a true treat from the middle 1970s. By this time, Monty Python were bonafide celebrities and it's a thrill to see them perform so many of their best sketches in front of a live and supportive audience. I greatly prefer their performances here to their earlier renditions on their TV show - like all great teams they had gotten better with both experience and time. All the Pythons are especially self-confident as performers here, and as a bonus we have a couple of musical numbers courtesy of Neil Innes. I especially enjoyed the irreverent sketch where John Cleese plays the Pope.
The German Episode hasn't aged nearly as well. There's some good material (especially a mock-documentary about Albrecht Durer) but it's hampered by poor video quality. Honestly, the entire thing looks like it was filmed in Super 8 and the constant subtitling doesn't help matters. It looks like a third generation bootleg. The best of the sequences also appear (in considerably higher quality) in "Hollywood Bowl." You do get "The Lumberjack Song" sung in German, however. And it is a kick hearing Graham Chapman speak German with a thick American accent.
The remainder of the discs contain "20 Years of Monty Python," a greatest-hits style program hosted by Steve Martin, and a group interview conducted by Robert Klein. It's fun for completists.
Still, "Hollywood Bowl" is the real draw and its a pleasure to see it on a reasonably priced DVD with extras.
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