Fantasy

Comedy

Jabberwocky

Python Films

Umbrella Films

United Kingdom

English

Michael Palin

Harry H. Corbett

John Le Mesurier

Warren Mitchell

Max Wall

Rodney Bewes

John Bird

Bernard Bresslaw

Deborah Fallender

Derek Francis

Annette Badland

Kenneth Colley

Jerold Wells

Gorden Kaye

David Prowse

Roger Pratt

Simon Williams

Derrick O'Connor

Peter Cellier

Frank Williams

Antony Carrick

Bryan Pringle

John Sharp

Graham Crowden

Janine Duvitski

Christopher Logue

Brenda Cowling

Brian Glover

Derek Deadman

Tony Aitken

Roy Evans

Bill Gavin

Harold Goodwin

Hilary Sesta

Sheridan Earl Russell

Alexandra Dane

Terry Gilliam

Paul Curran

Terry Jones

Neil Innes

Lewis Carroll

Modeste Moussorgsky

Michael Bradsell

Julian Doyle

John Goldstone

Sanford Lieberson

Roy Forge Smith

Charles Alverson

Terry Bedford

Irene Lamb

Hazel Pethig

Bill Camp

Bob Doyle

Joyce Herlihy

Scota Rakison

Elaine Carew

Charles Knode

Maggie Weston

Milly Burns

Steve Drevett

Garth Marshall

Roger Cain

David Appleby

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The biggest problem I have with this is that, well, it just isn't very funny! It centres on Michael Palin's "Dennis Cooper" - a man who determines that to win the hand of his true love "Griselda" (Annette Badland) he must enter the vile and filthy city of King "Bruno the Questionable" (Max Wall) and prove his worth with some magnificent deed of derring-do. The deed, well that is to rid the kingdom of a pesky dragon - "the Jabberwocky". Right from the get-go, the would be fairy tale romance is so implausible as to go from mildly amusing at first to downright irritating after about ten minutes. Thereafter, a cast of British theatrical stalwarts and comedians do try to keep this film vaguely entertaining, but the humour is just far too contrived and piecemeal. Palin works hard, but the exhaustion in having to stretch this thinnest of stories out for 1¾ hours is writ large on his face until, by the end, even he looks like he is thinking - "Please, let's just get this over with". "Star Wars" fans might spot "Darth Vader" himself and from a star-spotting perspective, there is some value in the film but otherwise it is a poorly conceived and executed attempt at a fantasy adventure and my money was always on the dragon!

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