Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975-British)

My friend Jim and I saw this movie this afternoon.  I liked it and Jim thought it was "imaginative".  I picked up the movie yesterday at Davis Library on Democracy Blvd. and I remembered that Barry Casey had listed this movie as one of his Favorite Movies on Facebook. 


What I picked up was the Collectors edition (2000), with the movie on Disc One and a Disc Two inside.  Jim and I were glad that we had watched "Quest for the Holy Grail locations" on Disc Two before we started the movie on Disc One, because once the movie started things happened very quickly.  Also, we liked reading the movie dialog in the Screenplay booklet that came wrapped with the movie by the library.  This movie is rated PG for language and violence.  The violence is not graphic, but is too much for children.


Here is a good description of the Grail legend:
From Dictionary, Copyright © 2005 Apple Computer, Inc.:


Grail  (also Holy Grail)
noun
(in medieval legend) the cup or platter used by Jesus at the Last Supper, and in which Joseph of Arimathea received Christ's blood at the Cross. Quests for it undertaken by medieval knights are described in versions of the Arthurian legends written from the early 13th century onward.


This movie includes a satire on the sword fighting of Errol Flynn in his movie "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938).  Also, the following myths or legends were included: 


From Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia:


Trojan Horse
The Trojan Horse is a tale from the Trojan War about the stratagem that allowed the Greeks finally to enter the city of Troy and end the conflict. In the canonical version, after a fruitless 10-year siege, the Greeks constructed a huge wooden horse, and hid a select force of men inside. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the horse into their city as a victory trophy. That night the Greek force crept out of the horse and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, which had sailed back under cover of night. The Greeks entered and destroyed the city of Troy, decisively ending the war.


In the Monty Python movie they attempt the same thing, except with a huge Wooden Rabbit.   But they forgot to put the men inside the Wooden Rabbit.  Then they came to a cave that's similar to the one in the Beowulf Old English heroic epic poem from the early 11th century.  Beowulf fights with the giant human-like Grendel.  The Monty Python group sees a cute bunny rabbit at the mouth of the cave; but it turns out he can fly and bite ferociously.  After that, the survivors have to cross a rickety bridge and answer all three questions correctly or get thrown off the bridge.  Later they run into a cartoon monster.  Now that I think about it, it was a funny movie.