You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Probably the most quotable comedy of all time, and definitely one of the top three funniest. Like all Python films it’s a bit front-heavy — most of the most memorable bits are in the first third of the film — but it holds together surprisingly well for a film that’s basically a series of sketches with only minimal amounts of plot stringing them together. The Pythons at the height of their powers were funnier than just about anything before or after. There’s a kind of effortless whimsy and freedom to the structure of Holy Grail that is very attractive, and that no-one, not even the Pythons themselves, has ever really managed to duplicate.
