I got And Now for Something Completely Different recently...
Monty Python's first feature is essentially a reworking of their best skits from the first two seasons of their cult TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus, shot on film outside the usual studio sets (Nudge Nudge, for example, is set in a tavern filled with passersby). As the TV series was as yet unseen in the U.S. at the time of this feature, And Now for Something Completely Different became for many Americans their first taste of the Pythons' brand of surreal, silly humor and remains a fond favorite. The writing and performances are fine and the film is packed with some of their best bits: How to Avoid Being Seen, Hell's Grannies, Blackmail, The Lumberjack Song, The Parrot Sketch, and The Upper Class Twit of the Year, among others.
I wanted And Now for Something Completely Different primarily for the Parrot Sketch and it wasn't half bad, but, many of the sketches have been shortened and, at times, the film's pacing is somewhat slow. Overall, And Now for Something Completely Different was O.K., but, I did end up downloading the Parrot Sketch from the Monty Python Channel at Youtube. I changed the DVD case to a double-disc case and added the downloaded Parrot Sketch to the DVD case on its own DVD.
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Monty Python's first feature is essentially a reworking of their best skits from the first two seasons of their cult TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus, shot on film outside the usual studio sets (Nudge Nudge, for example, is set in a tavern filled with passersby). As the TV series was as yet unseen in the U.S. at the time of this feature, And Now for Something Completely Different became for many Americans their first taste of the Pythons' brand of surreal, silly humor and remains a fond favorite. The writing and performances are fine and the film is packed with some of their best bits: How to Avoid Being Seen, Hell's Grannies, Blackmail, The Lumberjack Song, The Parrot Sketch, and The Upper Class Twit of the Year, among others.
The host is Blogger and the theme is one of their newer standard templates called Contempo. The link and icon are at the bottom of the page. The template has a nice clean minimalist feel out of the box that has some optimization for mobile. I added some custom CSS and a handful of custom widgets as described in: A Year With The Contempo Template. In general, I try to keep the loading times down by using smaller images and relying more on CSS for that extra bit of polish.
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