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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 12/21/2012 : 22:24:51
If you're not now or never have been a Monty Python fan, I pity you. If you regard the late Graham Chapman as a true comic genius, this is the film for you.
It's an animated version of Chapman's book, featuring all but Eric Idle from the original Pythons, with a stellar supporting cast. They voice the disparate and often desperate characters that Chapman presents as influential to his development - as a reluctant scientist, a reluctant homosexual, and, most of all, a reluctant comic fuelled by an enthusiasm for alcohol and occasionally other naughty substances.
How much is true hardly matters. Chapman's self-assessment is not white whine. It's pure gold, finding the profound in the trivial, and the laughs in just about everything. This is wonderfully evoked in his song - given a rousing rendition - "Sit on my face and tell me that you love me."
The animation comprises 17 wholly different animation styles rendered by 14 different studios. The result is a visual underpinning of Chapman's almost kaleidoscopic brain, spinning, spinning to reflect his own chaotic reality through some unique view.
I think it will play on television either concurrent with or just after a cinema release early in 2013. If you're a fan - just go see it.
If you aren't, go sit in the corner and wait to be spoken to.
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