Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)

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Season 1
Metascore
84

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    100
    It is an excellent 40th-anniversary documentary.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    100
    They say analyzing comedy kills it, but in this case, it's one revelation after another. Add rare footage of their early years, some non-Python TV appearances, tense on-set footage filmed during the making of their movies, and clips of their greatest hits, and you've got Monty nirvana.
  3. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    90
    Almost the Truth (The Lawyer’s Cut) is a serious history of sublime nonsense, packaged with classic Python-esque irreverence.
  5. Newark Star-Ledger
    80
    The documentary finally sags a bit in the final hour, albeit inevitably, as Jones and Timlett detail the making of the group’s final film, "Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life," by which point all six men were quite ready to be done with each other for a while, and then as we briefly glimpse them in their post-Python lives.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    80
    Frankly, six hours is a whole lot of time for any documentary, but the treasure trove of Python material ensures that Almost the Truth goes down smoothly, or at least almost so.
  7. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    80
    Despite its equivocal title, Almost the Truth beats any Python documentary yet made for comprehensiveness and depth.
  8. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Mark Feeney
    70
    It is a treat, if not a revelation, for fans. This is very well plowed ground, after all. As for the as yet uninitiated, what they don’t find baffling they’ll likely find excessive.
  9. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    70
    It's funnier because it includes some comic sketches, but they are truncated. Further down, whole episodes focus on the Python movies, one for The Life of Brian, one for Monty Python and the Holy Grail. You get funny excerpts, but also lots of blah-blah.

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8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 16
  3. Negative: 1 out of 16
  1. StevenStevens
    Feb 4, 2019
    10
    What an informative special about the greatest comedy group of all time!!!!
  2. nilsy
    Feb 21, 2017
    9
    It does manage to convey a sense of the personalities of the members of the show and how they cooperated.
    Its a very concise and illuminating    It does manage to convey a sense of the personalities of the members of the show and how they cooperated.
    Its a very concise and illuminating documentary for both the fans who know everything and those who have no facts only know the name of monty python, both will find it pleasant but neither will call it perfect.

    It does not try to explain how BIG python was that is probably the only thing you need to know before watching this show    … Full Review »
  3. ArkonBlade
    Jul 7, 2011
    9
    python fan will be pleased with this if you are intrested how every thing got started for the python crew . its a documentry with some nicepython fan will be pleased with this if you are intrested how every thing got started for the python crew . its a documentry with some nice python humor and stories .… Full Review »
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