And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)

Directed by

Ian MacNaughton

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 590 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film compiles sketches and animations from the first two seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus. The sketches were performed again specifically for the movie without a live audience. A repeating gag has an announcer or a colonel cut in to call the sketches too silly.

sillyabsurdplayfulirreverentfast-pacedwhimsicalnonsensicalanimateddeadpan

What happens

And Now for Something Completely Different is a 1971 British sketch comedy film based on the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus featuring sketches from the show's first two series. The title was taken from a catchphrase used in the television show. The film, released on 28 September 1971 in the United Kingdom and 22 August 1972 in the United States, consists of 90 minutes of sketches and animation sequences seen in the first two series of the television show. All of the sketches were recreated for the film without an audience, and were intended for an American audience which had not yet seen the series. The announcer (John Cleese) appears briefly between some sketches to deliver the line "and now for something completely different", in situations such as being roasted on a spit and lying on top of a desk in a small pink bikini, as well as the Colonel (Graham Chapman) interrupting them and deeming them "too silly". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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