Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32872 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-03-01
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
• Number of discs: 4

DVD Description
A 4-disc DVD box set containing The Best of Monty Python’s Flying Circus - Volumes 1, 2 & 3 and the Live At Aspen show.

Smeared in a healthy portion of bizarre animation, Volumes 1, 2 & 3 feature the very best from the first four series. The volumes contain classic sketches such as The Ministry for Silly Walks, the Dead Parrot sketch, Spanish Inquisition, the Lumberjack Song and many more. Live At Aspen was filmed back in 1998 when the remaining members of the Monty Python team got together for a comedy festival in Colorado. It was the first time in 18 years they had all appeared on stage together and the reunion was to celebrate the impending 30th anniversary. The team performed their favourite skits and the late Graham Chapman made his appearance in an urn.

Special Features

• Fully animated menus
  
• Previously unseen footage from the BBC’s 1999 Monty Python night including It’s The Monty Python Story, Pythonland and From Spam to Sperm

DVD Technical Information:

• Total Running Time: 281 minutes

Synopsis
A four disc set of Monty Python's endlessly influential wit and silliness. Contained here are Volumes 1-3 of the Best Of's plus LIVE AT ASPEN. Naturally it includes the legendary Dead Parrot sketch, Ministry of Silly Walks, Spanish Inquisition and the Lumberjack Song.

Customer Reviews

Good. But there are a lot more great sketches.
This is a good monty python hits dvd. It has all the best sketches.All of them are good i especially like the party political broadcast from the liberal party. I aslo like it when they take the p out of the bbc. (p meaning you know what) The bishop is a also good one the best part being when you see the credits at the begining. But the favourite ones are also there the ministry of silly walks and the dead parrot sketch. The live at aspen is very good thought is was a good special featutre. All the best animation is there too with the i confess and the large killer cat and the baby carriage that eats people. All in all its a brilliant laugh and the other reviews giving it one star just becuase its not a full thing with 100 discs and 200 special features is just stupid its a good dvd for the price a great laugh and something to watch if you are knackard after a hard day aaaaaaaaah my writers cramp and give me a real parrot.

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don't bother unless....
If you are a casual python fan, who just likes the famous sketches that everyone knows about then this dvd is for you. If you are serious about comedy and love python then don't bother.

All the sketches are shown totally out of context and lot's of brilliant sketches have been ommitted. Admittely this is not the fault of whoever put this package together, the whole point is that you cannot do the best of monty python. How can you reduce over 24 hours worth of material and do it justice in just 4 hours. It's not possible, and it is evident here.

The material itself is 5 stars, the package is no stars, it's that simple. So if you want the real thing it's worth importing the mega set from america. It's region 0 so it plays in any dvd player, I have one and it plays in my region 2 dvd player.

Watching the episodes as they were meant to be seen is the only way to watch Python. And for anyone serious about comedy then Python is a must have. 90% of comedy that was made after python could not exist without it.

Excellant,But this now
When i first heard of a TV series, i said 'I am going to buy that', but meh, i never got around to it.
So when i saw this on Amazon i thought ill buy it, and i did funnily enough, ok then i am going to stop the banter bow.
It is a quality box set, with some nice extras, there are 3 'best of'DVD's which are more or less 90 minutes each, and a 'Live at Asphen' DVD that has several documentarys on as well as a talk show with the Pythons.
The DVD's are good, the best is the first one, but the second one is very good also with some excellant sketches, but the third one, although it has some good moments,its the worst of the three, but still nice to watch, but the 'Live At Asphen' DVD is boring after the first time you watch it, but the documentarys are pretty good.
The first disc includes the Parrot Sketch,among other great ones,including my personal favourite The Fresh Fruit Sketch.
The second disc contains the second series, which has the Blackamil sketch and the very funny Spanish Inquisition.
The third one is beasically the third and fourth ones combined,which gives you an idea about how much 'padding out' there was.
Its a good quality bundle, and well worth the money, so in one word,BUT IT!!!!!!