A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
- Ben Timlett,
- Bill Jones,
- Jeff Simpson - 2012
Synopsis
John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam pay tribute to their late Monty Python colleague Graham Chapman in this hilarious, 3-D animated adaptation of Chapman's brazenly fictionalized life story.
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Cast
- Graham ChapmanSelf (voice)
- Terry GilliamVarious (voice)
- John CleeseVarious (voice)
- Michael PalinVarious (voice)
- Carol ClevelandVarious (voice)
- Cameron DiazSeigmund Freud (voice)
- Stephen FryOscar Wilde (voice)
- Philip BulcockDavid Sherlock (voice)
- Diana Kent(voice)
- Lloyd KaufmanUncle Lloyd (voice)
Recommendations
- 75
New York Post
Like a lesser Python entry ("The Meaning of Life"?), it's alternately brilliant and frustrating. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
It's like watching "Yellow Submarine" laid over a celebrity-therapy episode of Dr. Phil. - 60
Village Voice
The movie has enough weird-wild-ride brio to convince you that Chapman was indeed quite a character. - 60
The New York Times
It's a colorful patchwork of family high and low points, schoolboy days, professional triumphs and assorted epiphanies (including sex with women followed by sex with men). - 50
Portland Oregonian
Unfortunately, it just doesn't come together. The animation ranges from crude approximations of Terry Gilliam's cutout style to borderline puerility, and the entire enterprise strives far too desperately for the sort of irreverence that Chapman could conjure with a cock of his pipe-clenching head. - 42
The A.V. Club
What's missing from this movie is any of that sense of what made Chapman so important, or why he was so often at the center of Monty Python's best skits and movies, up until his death from cancer at 48. - 40
Time Out
A coda shifts to video footage of Cleese's irreverent eulogy; you wish the whole film could have been as slyly somber. It's what the colonel would have insisted upon. - 40
New York Daily News
John Cleese, Michael Palin and Chapman himself (courtesy of interviews, skits and various recordings he made before his death from cancer in 1989) chime in. It's an odd little trip, but if it weren't, one would have to ask, "Well what's all this, then?"
