The Quest for the Holy Grail Locations

More and more DVDs are packaged with studio-sponsored promo materials shamelessly parading themselves as documentaries.

Usually this nausea-inducing drivel is full of luvvies telling you the great difficulties they face in getting-up in the morning to have make-up put on their face before doing what most sane people would regard as half a day's work.

Alternatively, these promos are full of saddoes sitting around singing the praises of people they self-evidently hate - such is Hollywood.

Most such stuff should never see the light of day let alone be re-packaged and sold to the unsuspecting. Holy Grail Locations fortunately doesn't come into this category.

Micahel Palin, Terry Jones and others make a credible documentary re-visiting the shooting locations for Holy Grail, whilst reminiscing about the film and its low budget (lots of interesting shots of Doune Castle intercut with shots from the movie, and showing how the sets were re-dressed several times over).

This documentary film will be of interest to those who liked Holy Grail as well as anyone planning on making a memorable movie on the cheap.

I was particularly impressed with the actor who played Hamish McInnes - this man clearly should go far. One criticism - the Julian Doyle part was mis-cast I felt this called for a much younger fellow.

1st watched 2/16/2025 - (Dir-Julian Doyle) Somewhat interesting for fans of the original Monty Python movie, but overall just lacking a good connection to the original piece. Twenty-five years after the filming Terry Jones & Michael Palin take us to the locations where the original "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was filmed - trying to simulate where they were when this person said that etc.... Jones becomes worn out climbing up steep fields and castle steps as he recalls the events and the hauling of camera equipment thru this same terrain. A good idea, but it seems like they ran out of ways to make it interesting and ended up hiring young kids to simulate the last scene. Sometimes when you admire a film, anything about it's making is fun to watch - but this one ran tiresome before it ended. Not sure the necessity of this 47 minute piece, really....could have been a much shorter addition to the movie's DVD.