Jabberwocky (re-release)

Name: Jabberwocky (re-release)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
Released: September 28, 2001
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Michael Palin

2001

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Cinema 5 Distributing | Release Date: September 28, 2001 | PG

Starring: Michael Palin

Summary: A rerelease of Terry Gilliam's 1977 medieval parody.

Director: Terry Gilliam

Genre(s): Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy

Rating: PG

Runtime: 105 min

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New Times (L.A.) Gregory Weinkauf

Awesome! Bravura! Captivating! Dazzling! Read full review

David Sterritt

Gilliam's first solo flight as a director is more notable for its inspired visual ideas than for the frequency of its laughs, but Python devotees will have fun. Read full review

Jack Mathews

Gilliam's first fully equipped playpen and if he musses it up -- I mean, really musses it up --well, prodigies will be prodigies. Read full review

Jessica Winter

The film itself is thinly conceived, except in the area of bodily misfunction. It plays like the murky B side to the immortal Gilliam-Jones epic "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Long on jabber but short on yocks. Read full review

Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

Jabberwocky is not a Python film, a fact most obvious in its marked lack of humor. Read full review

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CooterPatooter

Feb 21, 2012

First of all... this is NOT a Monty Python film. It has all of the Python strangeness but absolutely none of its humor. Secondly... this is NOT an adaptation of the quirky Lewis Carrol poem. Besides a couple of weak references to the poem and an attempt to reproduce its weirdness, this isFirst of all... this is NOT a Monty Python film. It has all of the Python strangeness but absolutely none of its humor. Secondly... this is NOT an adaptation of the quirky Lewis Carrol poem. Besides a couple of weak references to the poem and an attempt to reproduce its weirdness, this is an original story. It's a somewhat confusing, mildly interesting, kinda so-so movie that I can recommend or encourage you to steer clear of equally.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Feb 19, 2022

It's not a particularly clever film, and its own absurdist tone only gets the job done to a certain degree, which will always work against you when you don't know how to fix it within the narrative, and you extend its running time to the point of tedium. I think it's most revered for GilliamIt's not a particularly clever film, and its own absurdist tone only gets the job done to a certain degree, which will always work against you when you don't know how to fix it within the narrative, and you extend its running time to the point of tedium. I think it's most revered for Gilliam and for associating it with Monty Python because of the inevitable comparisons.
Passing that inconvenient, Jabberwocky is a dull and flawed film.… Expand

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