Jabberwocky

Name: Jabberwocky
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy

United Kingdom · 1977
Rated PG · 1h 45m
Director Terry Gilliam
Starring Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier, Warren Mitchell
Genre Comedy, Fantasy

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?

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Variety by

Long on jabber but short on yocks.

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!

L.A. Weekly by Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

Jabberwocky is not a Python film, a fact most obvious in its marked lack of humor.

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.

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."