Monty Python and the Holy Grail review – timelessly brilliant

The Pythons return to the big screen with a 40th-anniversary rerelease that reminds us of their superb, anarchic daringJust after Robert Bresson’s Lancelot of the Lake and before John Boorman’s Excalibur there was Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), the Pythons’ classic Arthurian hallucination. Now rereleased in cinemas on its 40th anniversary, the film was their bridgehead into international stardom. Watched again now on the big screen, it is eerie to see how, without the