Bernard Bresslaw, Derrick O'Connor, Graham Crowden

Michael Palin's perpetually ingenuous cooper's apprentice Dennis Cooper dreams of hitting the Big Time, as he tells wheeler-dealer Mr. Fishfinger, father of the fair(-ly hefty) Griselda, but after his...( read more  read more... ) own father disowns him on his deathbed, Dennis must trek to a wondrous medieval metropolis, then in the midst of a flesh-scarfing-monster scare, to get a job. The Dark Ages don't get much darker as guards relieve themselves from castle walls, Mr. Fishfinger hangs rearwards from his window, the sight of the monster scares a man's teeth white, and noble spectators enjoy repeated blood drenchings at a tournament. Only the occasional shaft of light penetrates the gloomy, grimy throne room of Max Wall's King Bruno the Questionable, as merchants and prelates argue the good of the Monster for business and religion and John Le Mesurier's Chamberlain offers heroically deadpan comments amid the grotesqueries. But ultimately there must be a showdown with the genuinely fearsome Beast...

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PG, 1 hr. 40 min.

Directed by: Terry Gilliam

Release Date: January 1, 1977

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DVD Release Date: October 23, 2001

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  • April 7, 2009
    Uneven, but atmospheric and funny portrait of the dark ages.
  • August 4, 2007
    I was expecting the grandness of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"! But this is a bore.
  • July 14, 2007
    Has some of the moments of magic you'd expect from Gilliam, but it's patchy and nowhere near as good as The Holy Grail.
  • May 22, 2007
    I am so into this weird sort of film and Palin is great.
  • August 14, 2009
    http://www.smart.co.uk/jabberwocky/
  • May 25, 2009
    It was not exactly a comedy as much as it was a medieval tale. It kinda made me sick to my stomach. I thought it was a fairly well-made film, though the Jabberwocky creature looked extremely cheap.
  • March 10, 2009
    Wasnt to bad would of been great if the rest of the monty python cast were in it but michael palin is pretty funny. Really picks up at the end and thought the monster look pretty cool for a movie made in 1977.
  • January 27, 2009
    NOT GOOD...
    DISSAPOINTED TOTALY
  • January 18, 2009
    Quite strange. A bit of a non sequitor work. Very dickens-esque and set in the middle ages, when else! Micheal plain plays fairly much the same character as other films, a bumbling, happy go lucky but much amusing twit. An intresting film, but not that enetertaining.
  • December 31, 2008
    Monty Python feel is still here in this flick but I think it failed to amaze... it was still a fun satire and worth watching :)

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