![]() Summer War, apart from a premise more or less recycled from Hosoda’s 2000 directorial debut Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!, was the many-times-removed story of Hosoda meeting his wife’s family for the first time. Most, if not all, of Mamoru Hosoda’s original films produced in the past decade function, to some degree or another, as exercises in autobiography. Stars: Haru Kuroki, Moka Kamishiraishi, Gen Hoshino The first-time co-direction from onscreen performer Terry Jones (who only sporadically directed after Python broke up) and lone American Terry Gilliam (who prolifically bent Python’s cinematic style into his own unique brand of nightmarish fantasy) moves with a surreal efficiency. ![]() It certainly doesn’t look like a $400,000 movie, and it’s delightful to discover which of the gags (like the coconut halves) were born from a need for low-budget workarounds. If you’re truly and irreversibly burnt out from this movie, watch it again with commentary, and discover the second level of appreciation that comes from the inventiveness with which it was made. There are so many jokes in this movie, and it’s surprising how easily we forget that, considering its reputation. Holy Grail is, indeed, the most densely packed comedy in the Python canon. But, if you try and distance yourself from the over-saturation factor, and revisit the film after a few years, you’ll find new jokes that feel as fresh and hysterical as the ones we all know. Or, in my case, of repeating full scenes to people as a clueless, obsessive nerd. Nowadays, when we hear a “flesh wound,” a “ni!” or a “huge tracts of land,” our first thoughts are often of having full scenes repeated to us by clueless, obsessive nerds. It sucks that some of the shine has been taken off Holy Grail by its own overwhelming ubiquity. Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Connie Booth Monty Python and the Holy Grail Year: 1975 Here are the 13 best fantasy movies on Netflix:ġ. Here’s hoping this signals a new commitment to fantasy filmmaking in the future. The streaming giant has recently invested heavily in original fantasy episodic series like Shadow & Bone and Sweet Tooth, and is currently developing a sequel to their first original fantasy film, The Old Guard. The common thread is a wild imagination, an exploration of the impossible in order to illuminate the mundane issues we all face. Netflix’s selection of fantasy movies may be small and shrinking, but we found 13 worthy films ranging from fantasy/comedy to fantasy/horror, from lush animation to live-action adventure.
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