Holy Flying Circus

TV Movie
2011
Not Rated
1h 29m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

1.7K

YOUR RATING

Parody Satire Comedy Drama

Tells the story of the outraged, and sometimes violent, response to 'The Life of Brian' the Monty Python movie that satirized the life of Jesus.Tells the story of the outraged, and sometimes violent, response to 'The Life of Brian' the Monty Python movie that satirized the life of Jesus.Tells the story of the outraged, and sometimes violent, response to 'The Life of Brian' the Monty Python movie that satirized the life of Jesus.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

1.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 win & 3 nominations total

Trivia
All the dialogue of the four debaters on the TV show (excluding the obvious dream sequences) is lifted verbatim from the actual show.

Crazy credits
Bishop Wrangler - Ricardo Svelte

Connections
References Casablanca (1942)

User reviews18

Featured review

8/10

489th Review: More swear words that a titmouse can launch a moose at......

The BBC has outdone themselves in this wonderful piece about the reception of Life of Brian. Having been taken along with 20 other pupils to see Life by my school chaplain while taking a Religious Studies A level it always has had a special place in my heart. This wonderful reconstruction captures something of the Pythons complete silliness, and the even more complete silliness of those who found Brian offensive.

This is seriously the best tribute film to the Pythons out there, the effort in casting to get it right has paid off, to say they look and act like how and who they're meant to is a gross understatement - they really do capture something of each of the Flying Circus with marvelous alacrity.

All in all, this is rude, crude, very, very silly in places, and, above all, fall on the floor funny. Quite simply, one of the funnier films I've seen recently and for those who like Python in any form this is smart and just what the doctor ordered.