Storyline
A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. Will Dennis make his fortune? Is anyone brave enough to defeat the monster?
Directors
Cast
Roger Pratt, Derek Deadman, David Prowse, Kenneth Colley, Annette Badland, Derrick O'Connor, Sheridan Earl Russell, Brian Glover, John Le Mesurier, Michael Palin, Graham Crowden, Brenda Cowling, Antony Carrick, Peter Cellier, Harry H. Corbett, Max Wall, Warren Mitchell, Rodney Bewes, John Bird, Bernard Bresslaw, Deborah Fallender, Derek Francis, Jerold Wells, Gorden Kaye, Simon Williams, Frank Williams, Bryan Pringle, John Sharp, Janine Duvitski, Christopher Logue, Paul Curran, Tony Aitken, Roy Evans, Bill Gavin, Harold Goodwin, Hilary Sesta, Alexandra Dane
Trailer
Reviews
100
New Times (L.A.)
Awesome! Bravura! Captivating! Dazzling!
75
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.
63
New York Daily News
Gilliam's first fully equipped playpen and if he musses it up -- I mean, really musses it up --well, prodigies will be prodigies.
60
Village Voice
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."
50
Variety
Long on jabber but short on yocks.
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