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28 June 2011 Last updated at 07:54 GMT
Monty Pythons members reunite for Graham Chapman film

Monty Python members have reunited to voice a 3D animated film based on the memoirs of the late Graham Chapman.
A Liar's Autobiography will feature recordings that Chapman, who died in 1989 aged 48, made of his 1980 book.
John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Terry Jones have all signed up while Eric Idle is not involved. The film is due out in spring next year.
Jones joked he had "no idea" until recently that Chapman was dead and "thought he was just being lazy".
"However, I am now delighted to find myself working with him again on this exciting project," he added.
Co-director Jeff Simpson said producers had worked closely with the Chapman estate and the Pythons to "get this exactly right". Chapman died after battling cancer.
He said the comic would be pleased "his work is being re-imagined in glorious 3D - he always loved wearing silly glasses".
Cult TV series Monty Python's Flying Circus was first broadcast in the UK in 1969.
The team also brought films including Holy Grail and Life of Brian to the big screen.

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Please get it right, please get it right, please get it right....

Any reason why Idle isn't involved?

He has a career?

Well, you know how it gets. You and a bunch of chaps get together and put together a sketch comedy group that pretty much redefines how sketch comedy gets done on both sides of the pond and a dozen or so years later when one of your mates kicks the bucket the rest of your life is spent dealing with requests from people to get involved with tribute shows for him or the group of Pythoners as a whole even though you're trying to get a respectable career going with music, film, and theatre and other much more reputable pursuits than a bunch of wags carrying on for the amusement of other people who probably have better things to do than watch a handful of grown men spout catchphrases and hit each other over the head with blunt objects while others dressed up as women or public figures cavort with a stuffed animal in an attempt to portray the silliness of government regulation or oversight of such things as the news media or even a particularly dreadful murder investigation where nobody seems to be able to keep straight exactly who is doing the investigation and who is the victim.

--Patrick

sixpackshaker said:

He has a career?

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Hey now, Gilliam has a career.

Ugh, another soulless, shitty 3D movie moneygrab. NO THANKS

How is this the industry getting better? They just found another way to sap money away from the nerd demographic. It's funny because people will eat shit from the trough if they just re-label the can.

Gilman Chatsworth said:

How is this the industry getting better?

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Because obviously, unlike you, i haven't yet seen the film and hated it, so i'm being optimistic...

Even if the movie isn't a giant turd, how is this definitive proof that the movie industry is better? All it says to me is that they're continuing to tap a certain demographic, not that the industry is making any changes to not being money-grubbing whores.

That, and this movie is probably going to blow

Gilman Chatsworth said:

Even if the movie isn't a giant turd, how is this definitive proof that the movie industry is better?

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Simple math... if you have 20 movies, 10 good and 10 bad, adding another good one makes 11 good films, and thus the overall quality of films increases...

Also, "I got better!" is from Holy Grail.

That's the collective library of films in existence getting better by one (which doesn't offset the mountains of awful movies Lionsgate releases direct to DVD every month), not the industry getting better.

escushion said:

Hey now, Gilliam has a career.

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As does John Cleese.

Now Palin and Jones, not as much, and Chapman is dead, of course, but that's a full 50% of them

No, THIS is nailin' Palin

mr_thehun said:

Youtube blocked in China

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Cleese says that no civilized nation would consider Sarah Palin anywhere near good enough to be a head of state, and that she's like a very well trained parrot that can memorize and deliver speeches, and look good doing them, but has no idea what she's saying or that it actually might mean something.

He's quite right, of course.

escushion said:

That's the collective library of films in existence getting better by one (which doesn't offset the mountains of awful movies Lionsgate releases direct to DVD every month), not the industry getting better.

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tomayto, tomahto...

Null said:

Cleese says that no civilized nation would consider Sarah Palin anywhere near good enough to be a head of state, and that she's like a very well trained parrot that can memorize and deliver speeches, and look good doing them, but has no idea what she's saying or that it actually might mean something.

He's quite right, of course.

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Her and every other politician.

Null said:

Cleese says that no civilized nation would consider Sarah Palin anywhere near good enough to be a head of state, and that she's like a very well trained parrot that can memorize and deliver speeches, and look good doing them, but has no idea what she's saying or that it actually might mean something.

He's quite right, of course.

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Also, he immediately busts out laughing when asked about Sarah Palin and goes on to say that Michael Palin is no longer the funniest Palin.