I love the hell out
of Monty Python, the shows, the movies. I can’t get enough, even on repeat
viewings. A wildly animated F.U. to the whole biopic genre, “A Liar’s Autobiography:
The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman” wants to be the M.P. version
of the group’s founding member and leader’s life story, but it’s a pile of
random tid-bits that don’t say much. Crazy fact: I learned more trivia about
Chapman’s life and comedy impact in the “Making of…” documentary on this film
than the film itself. That’s sounds like a Python satirical sketch. (Skip the
movie! Watch the extras!) “Liar’s” never boring and much of the animation stuns
– dig the section that represents Chapman kicking booze -- but there’s so
little context I never got a hook on the man. A scene big on Python gore has
toddler Chapman looking at the bodies of soldiers killed in a WWII plane
crash. Why? Did he recall this a haunting memory? Who can tell when we’re told it’s fake? A letdown from a film I expected much from. C+
Monday, June 30, 2014
A Liar’s Autobiography (2012)
Labels:
2012,
3D,
A Liar's Biography,
alcoholism,
animation,
biopic,
comedy,
documentary,
England,
Graham Chapman,
London,
Monty Python,
World War II
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