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MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT - REVIEW

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For a Monty Python fan, the idea of a musical celebrating one of the iconic comedy group's finest achievements ( Monty Python And The Holy Grail ) was nothing short of spamgasmic. Nudge nudge...? In many ways, the marriage of Monty Python and musicals is a perfect one: the tackiness of some musicals crossed with The Pythons' bad taste humour promising a bit of a match made in heaven. That said, I'm not convinced that Holy Grail was the right musical to do. Now don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Spamalot . As silly as it was, there was a lot of good stuff there and it really was complete,  glorious escapism: entertaining nonsense the whole way through. But even then I must admit that it is one hell of a hit-and-miss effort. The way I feel about it is that the best songs come from Eric Idle poking fun at Broadway musicals and most of the Holy Grail stuff falls flat either due to it being so familiar or it just not really working on stage. Sure hearing the Camelot song i