The troupe’s last feature as a six-person act is a smart and still relevant collection of satire and silliness
These are the first lines – not counting the unofficial “short feature presentation” – in Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, and a much more accurate reflection of the title than the hilariously tossed-off conclusion that ends the film, which advises to be nice to people, avoid eating fat and “read a good book every now and then”.
The troupe’s Swiftian instinct to satirize society’s biggest issues contributes to the film’s eternal relevance, though they do reserve a special contempt for religious dogma and the supervisory class and the archetypical British stiffs who tend to represent these institutions. The inspired two-part first chapter, on “The Miracle of Birth”, parodies the unnatural apparatus of hospital births, so heavily mediated by expensive equipment that the mother and child are irritating afterthoughts.
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