Jabberwocky

Gilliam, who also wrote the screenplay with Charles Alverson, adds the absurd touches that make every moment a crazy surprise.

The predominant humor of this film is scatological as if the filthiness of bodily functions were inexhaustibly entertaining. [Full review in Spanish]

The result is decidedly hit-and-miss.

Apart from some isolated funny one-liners, Jabberwocky accomplished nothing more than make me wish for a return engagement of the far more clever Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

A prologue to the brilliance of what was to come from Terry Gilliam, Jabberwocky is at its best an exciting experiment from the auteur in tone and form.

The movie strains too hard, is far too long, and its irreverent formlessness, a virtue in previous Monty Python endeavors, here seems simply dull and tasteless.

not a particularly good film, even though it is an often clever and exceedingly efficient in its absurdist experimentation mixing fantasy and comedy and romance.

Nothing builds into full-blooded absurdity, and the enormous cast of British comic specialists is given little opportunity to help out (though they were presumably recruited just for that purpose).

Jabberwocky will certainly be of interest to both Gilliam and [Monty] Python fans; we just can't see it ever becoming a favorite of either.

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