![]() It's also, thankfully, no longer so pale, though it looks like some of that's due to some artificial contrast boosting and a side effect of edge enhancement. Sony then mattes their blu back down to 1.85:1, losing a little along the sides with it. You can see it includes more picture around all four sides, but particularly the bottom, no doubt due to its lifted 16x9 mattes. Criterion's DVD, then, is a still pretty pale, properly anamorphic 1.78:1 (despite claiming 1.85:1 on the case), with just the tiniest slivers of dead space in the overscan area. I'm actually surprised it's not interlaced it almost looks like it should be interlaced. So yeah, Anchor Bay's DVD is a pale, low res 1.84:1 image floating in a sea of non-anamorphic dead space. And Eric Idle closes out the whole thing with what became his most famous and popular song, "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life." The locations, shot in Tunisia, where they were able to make use of the sets from 1977's Jesus Of Nazareth, are truly impressive and lend the outrageous comedy a remarkably credible backdrop. We get a few animated sequences from Terry Gilliam, though not so many as we'd seen in previous Python efforts, taking more on the role of the physical production and art design. This film has more of a cohesive narrative than the other Python films, although you might say that's immaterial so long as it's packed with great comic moments, which Brian absolutely is. The Pythons play almost all the major characters, including Graham Chapman as the titular Brian, Terry Jones as his mum, Michael Palin as Pontius Pilate, Terry Jones as Simon the naked holy man, John Cleese as Reg, leader of The Peoples' Front of Judea and Graham Chapman as Biggus Dickus. The premise is that, a baby was born just across from Jesus Christ, and he keeps getting mistaken for a messiah despite not being one. ![]()
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