Monty Python's the Meaning of Life

"Meaning of Life" was the last of the Monty Python films, and it returned to the unrelated sketch format of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and the film "And Now For Something Completely Different." While some of the sketches just didn't work and it lacks the sheer brilliance of "Holy Grail" and "Life of Brian," it is a very funny movie in its own right.This is the script book. It has plenty of colour pictures and is printed on high quality paper. It contains several scenes not in the final cut ("Adventures of Martin Luther"), and a couple of frills (bizarre intro. about fish, a hilarious correspondence between John Cleese and the editor of The Sun Newspaper.) While not containing the amount of frills that the script books of "Holy Grail" and "Brian" did, it is definitely worth owning.

This is the companion book to Monty Python's most outrageous film. Great color photos illustrate the script, but the REAL reason to own this is that it is the only place you may ever get to read/see some sequences cut from the film. These are "The Adventures of Martin Luther," in which Jones plays a very randy Martin Luther making the Jewish parents of two young daughters (mother Chapman and father Palin) quite nervous and an extended version of the "Middle Age" sequence featuring Carol Cleveland as a waitress in the Dungeon Room waiting on Idle and Palin. The text to these scenes is what warrants the high rating - otherwise, it's simply a souvenier.