Monty Python Live (Mostly)

There were too many dance numbers for my taste and the only really good (or even great) one was accompanied by the song “I Like Chinese". Otherwise, I think the Pythons dancers were just disrupting the whole presumably breakup show (and unfortunately not in that successfully anarchic way). But it was a great show. Unlike other disappointed people, I was not expecting an avalanche of new sketches, but was looking forward to the proven ones and was curious to see what the gentlemen would do with them (or what the sketches would do with the gentlemen). There were a lot of great moments, the Pythons were also poking fun at each other (Palin and Idle about Cleese's divorces, Cleese and Jones about Palin's travel guides...) and in the scene with the parrot they took on the critics. If there was anything I liked less than a lot, it was probably just the Bruces, who somehow lacked energy. And I was really disappointed by the absence of one crucial character - the knight with the plucked chicken. Four and a bit. Hopefully the DVD will come out. (15/08/2014)