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Long on jabber but short on yocks.
Jabberwocky
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United Kingdom · 1977
Rated PG · 1h 45m
Director Terry Gilliam
Starring Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier, Warren Mitchell
Genre Comedy, Fantasy
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A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Gilliam's first solo flight as a director is more notable for its inspired visual ideas than for the frequency of its laughs, but Python devotees will have fun.
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New Times (L.A.) by Gregory Weinkauf
Awesome! Bravura! Captivating! Dazzling!
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L.A. Weekly by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Jabberwocky is not a Python film, a fact most obvious in its marked lack of humor.
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New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Gilliam's first fully equipped playpen and if he musses it up -- I mean, really musses it up --well, prodigies will be prodigies.
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Village Voice by Jessica Winter
The film itself is thinly conceived, except in the area of bodily misfunction. It plays like the murky B side to the immortal Gilliam-Jones epic "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."
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