Thanks to Graham Chapman’s poorly timed and totally annoying death the collective known as Monty Python is incomplete. Also scattered to the winds are the living members with Terry Gilliam tilting at creative windmills, John Cleese being tall and amazing, Eric Idle thinking he’s all that, Michael Palin testing cultural projects, and Terry Jones being the fat one. Jones also happens to be the one who holds things together, though he’s more often known for being forced into women’s clothing and being less funny than the others. Which means he’s probably the most valuable one.
We should hope so, because he’s uniting the gang in a new film he’s directing. Yep, the Pythons are back.
Sorta. Actually it’s their voices. As aliens. Oh and Robin Williams is voicing a dog.
Where are you going?
The project is called Absolutely Anything, and it combines live action and animation (hooray for Osmosis Jones and Cool World!) and features the Brits + Gilliam as aliens who empower a regular human with the ability to change the world. With comic results. So says Variety.
Bottom line is that regardless of venue it’s good to see these guys working together (the oft-irritating and difficult Idle has yet to sign). Even if the hirsute fuckwit that Robin Williams has become is involved.
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You had me at Monty Python! Then unfortunately lost me with images of the Genie from Aladdin giving my brain a chinese burn.
Do you think Williams will do his Nicholson??..
Nice to see Jones doing another feature (haven’t seen Mister Toad), and hopefully we’ll get to see the remaining aliens from Planet Python squabbling over Earth’s fate, with Gilliam pointing out that the orb in the viewscreen is “just a model”.
I don’t get all the hate for Robin Williams. Sure he’s got a bunch of crap on his resume, but he’s also been an incredible entertainer for a very long time. I mean WORLD’S GREATEST DAD alone should make it easy to ignore all the Night at the Museums.
i went of williams when i bought a lot of his stand up videos back in the day, i think one was filmed at the NYmet?
i realised that he did the same schtick over n over again, but just used differerent ways to get there.
Then after Good Morning Vietnam, he appeared on a lot of UK talk shows AND DONE THE SAME ACT!! and was like some kinda youtube cat vid, mix in ALLADIN d all the repetetive s an i felt like the kid telliNg people that the emporer had no clothes.
benn to the pub tonight…scuse!
JESUS, Nick. “Hirsute fuckwit?” Yes, the man’s made some terrible career choices, but does it really justify THAT level of sneering bile?
Aren’t they also doing Chapman’s “A Liar’s Autobiography”, with some method of putting Chapman himself into the action?
I look forward to this. Seeing them all together again (minus Chapman of course) should be worth the ticket price. However, this just sounds like a feature length version of The Twilight Zone episode “Mr. Dingle, The Strong” with the incomparable Burgess Meredith.
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