Monty Python: Before the Flying Circus

I am a huge "Monty Python" fan, so my not loving this documentary is surprising. But throughout I kept thinking....'wow...with such weird guys, why is the narration so incredibly boring and flat?!'. I wasn't the only one thinking that, as my daughter said the same....that the narration was all wrong. Uninspired, dull and lacking the sort of things that made "Monty Python" so funny. Now I am not saying the documentary isn't worth seeing...but it certainly could have been much better. Plus, the stodgy narration seems EXACTLY the sort of thing that "Monty Python" would have made fun of long ago!

The show is completely done in black & white. Considering all the clips were black & white prints, coloring everything black & white made sense. What it consists of are interviews with SOME of the Pythoners and a few of their friends....with various photos and film clips inserted throughout the show. I say some because Graham Chapman has long since died and, I can only assume, Terry Jones was ill and in his early struggle with dementia..though he did participate (though he was featured less often in the interviews). Otherwise, the rest of the Python cast appeared in the show.