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A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

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United Kingdom · 2012
Rated R · 1h 25m
Director Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, Ben Timlett
Starring Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin
Genre Animation, Comedy

John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam pay tribute to their late Monty Python colleague Graham Chapman in this hilarious, 3-D animated adaptation of Chapman's brazenly fictionalized life story. (TIFF)

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New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier

John Cleese, Michael Palin and Chapman himself (courtesy of interviews, skits and various recordings he made before his death from cancer in 1989) chime in. It's an odd little trip, but if it weren't, one would have to ask, "Well what's all this, then?"

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Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

A coda shifts to video footage of Cleese's irreverent eulogy; you wish the whole film could have been as slyly somber. It's what the colonel would have insisted upon.

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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

It's a colorful patchwork of family high and low points, schoolboy days, professional triumphs and assorted epiphanies (including sex with women followed by sex with men).

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Portland Oregonian by Marc Mohan

Unfortunately, it just doesn't come together. The animation ranges from crude approximations of Terry Gilliam's cutout style to borderline puerility, and the entire enterprise strives far too desperately for the sort of irreverence that Chapman could conjure with a cock of his pipe-clenching head.

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The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

What's missing from this movie is any of that sense of what made Chapman so important, or why he was so often at the center of Monty Python's best skits and movies, up until his death from cancer at 48.

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