By the time The Meaning of Life was finally finished, the various members of the group had all successfully begun to flex their non-Python identities; Gilliam, Idle and Jones had ambitions in film ...

Read the Empire Movie review of Monty Python s The Meaning Of Life. Excessive and self-indulgent it's true but still the Pythons at their worst are still worth a ...

Those plaudits are unusual, given that The Meaning Of Life is the seamiest of the Python features, and represents the troupe's most uneven work since its television days.

There was some actorly nostalgia on Sky Arts 1 with The Meaning of Monty Python, as the surviving members gathered together (via a video link to California, in Eric Idle's case).