The Meaning of Life

'The Meaning of life' is a musical comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. It also has a great cast formed by John Cleese, Graham Chapman and also Terry Gilliam.

This time, Monty Phyton's British group focus on one of the most important questions for the humanity: whis is the meaning of life for humans? This question will be answer through different funny sketches that focus on a lot of themes like religion, sex education, philosophy, war, history, medicine, nutrition or death. Also, thanks to different scenes the film will start with the birth of humans and will finish with death. The name of the sketches are: 'The Miracle of Birth', 'Every Sperm is Sacred', 'Growth and Learning', 'Fighting each other', 'The Middle of the film', 'Find the Fish', 'Middle Age', 'Live Organ Transplants', 'The Autumn Years', 'Death' and 'The End of the Film'.

Unlike 'Holy Grail' and 'Life of Brian', the film's two predecessors, which each told a single, coherent story, 'The Meaning of Life' doesn't. Although it wasn't as acclaimed as its two predecessors, was still well received by the audience and it also collected a gross budget: $15 million on a $9 million budget.

The movie was released on 1983 and six years after, Graham Chapman passed away.