Like with many of Python's sketches, the strengths usually out-weigh the weaknesses, depending on who's stronger in the bit I loved the Miracle of Birth number with Michael Palin's 'Every Sperm is Sacred' song, which spirals into one of director Terry Jones's most inspired numbers I had big belly laughs when Gilliam, as a resident, got an impromptu kidney operation, as the bystanders barely seemed affected the Mr. I saw the film twice last year, and bits on TV, and I had pretty much the same reaction the second time as the first. They go after religion, children, schooling, business, fat people, television, you name it, they go for it, all in the quest for the 'meaning of life'.

This time Python goes even further with the outrageousness, the delayed punch-lines, the wit, almost nothing is taken prisoners. It's split up into parts, starting off with the Miracle of Birth (extending into the Miracle of Birth in the Third Role), a part on war, a part on sex, and so forth. Taking a slight departure from the story structure of The Holy Grail and Life of Brian, the Monty Python troupe went back to their 'Flying Circus' TV days to cook up this philosophical, musical, ultra-violent, sexual, total stream-of-consciousness look into what makes up our lives, and if there is a meaning to it. Where's the fun in pictures? Oh, well, there we are. What they want is filth: people doing things to each other with chainsaws during tupperware parties, babysitters being stabbed with knitting needles by gay presidential candidates, vigilante groups strangling chickens, armed bands of theatre critics exterminating mutant goats.

And, finally, here are some completely gratuitous pictures of penises to annoy the censors and to hopefully spark some sort of controversy, which, it seems, is the only way, these days, to get the jaded, video-sated public off their fucking arses and back in the sodding cinema. Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations. Lady Presenter: Well, that's the end of the film.

What is the meaning of life