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

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A flawed biography of one of the founders of "Monty Python's Flying Circus."

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh metro.co.uk Unfortunately, its laudably ambitious decision to tell Chapman's story via 14 different animation styles and distribute it in 3D makes you long for a straight TV biopic. Rated: 2/5 Sep 1, 2017 Full Review Violet Lucca Film Comment Magazine The experience of A Liar's Autobiography is ultimately deflating instead of celebratory. Jun 28, 2013 Full Review Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard That the film is a bit of a mess reflects Chapman's life precisely. Rated: 3/5 Feb 8, 2013 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Beyond managing to be a loving homage to one of the prominent members of Monty Python, A Liar's Autobiography also manages to be an enthralling artistic achievement. Aug 6, 2019 Full Review John Nugent CineVue Fosters a messy, colourful memory in your mind: surreal, psychedelic, sometimes funny, but frustratingly empty beneath the surface, a disappointingly inadequate tribute to a great comedian. Rated: 2/5 Feb 9, 2019 Full Review Joseph Walsh CineVue the very way that A Liar's Autobiography has been brought to the big screen saps all the flavour and humour, lacking any of the real bite possessed by one of our most beloved Pythons. Rated: 1/5 Aug 23, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member And the troupe does it again, portraying their crude sense of humor almost completely in animation this time. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Even as a Monty Python fan, this feels pointless in its existence and excessive in terms of style. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member It tries a little too hard to be 'wacky' Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Wanted to like it more than i did Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Excellent animated reimagining of the life of a comic talent. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Based upon Graham Chapman's A Liar's Autobiography, Volume VI (1980), which was a fictionalised take on his life, this animated take was directed by Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson and Ben Timlett, who were behind the documentary Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut). It's visually striking, but it's more surreal than funny. Narrated by Graham Chapman, taken from an audio reading of his book recorded in 1986, it tells us of his "life", his childhood growing up with his father (Michael Palin) and mother (Terry Jones). :P How Chapman found out he was gay, and the trouble he had coming out to his parents and people he knew, and how he gave up his career as a doctor to go into comedy after a chance encounter with the Queen Mother (Palin again), and getting work in TV with David Frost (John Cleese), but when he started Monty Python, he descended into alcoholism, but he beat the booze and went to live in Hollywood as a tax dodge. It has some brilliantly animated scenes, but the joke that it's a fictionalised biopic of Chapman's own life, (and knows it), does work against it sometimes, especially if you want to hear some true facts. But it does have some pretty memorable sequences, some sexual and some violent, oh and Cameron Diaz appearing as Sigmund Freud... :P Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A flawed biography of one of the founders of "Monty Python's Flying Circus."
Director
Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, Ben Timlett
Producer
Bill Jones, Ben Timlett
Production Co
Brainstorm Media
Rating
R (Language|Graphic Animated Sequences|Some Violent Images|Strong & Crude Sexual Content)
Genre
Comedy, LGBTQ+, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 26, 2016
Runtime
1h 25m
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