Diagonaldi Very well executed

Tockinit not horrible nor great

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

mengels-845-984419 I really don't get the guys who don't like the movie. Must be because they were not growing up in the 70ies or 80ies. We laughed our ass off watching the film. And still today the movie has some good laughs. Yes in comparison with today's movies without CGI and stupid sex jokes the younger ones don't understand this chaotic but somehow truthful to the medieval reality. Michael Palin is great as Dennis and even Terry Gilliam plays more than the usual. It just came out Remastered on Criterion and I really would recommend it to everyone.

musickna A lot of people come to this film expecting "Monty Python and The Holy Grail 2", and leave perplexed and disappointed. Understandably so. Come to this from "Brazil", however, and it makes a lot more sense. For much of the same preoccupations that underlie "Brazil" underpin this film too, even if it is by no means as bleak and disturbing. Dennis, our hero, is a socially inept individual easily swayed by the attractions of materialism, albeit Dark Ages materialism - best symbolized by a rotting tuber gifted without care by his unappreciative muse. The society he blunders through is an incompetent bureaucracy, complete with venal merchants and a delightfully distracted king, played wonderfully by Max Wall. Despite the literally tumbledown state of his kingdom, King Bruno is more caught up in the romance of medieval adventuring than any practical measures to either renovate his decaying castle or, indeed, to fight the monster that provides the film's title.The world Gilliam creates for us, dirty, dusty, impoverished for most, echoes that of "Holy Grail", but is altogether less lightly humorous and much darker in tone. The humor is black and often only really sinks in after repeated viewing. But it is there once the veneer is scrubbed away. Curiously veneer is very much a subject of the film, from the rotten vegetable treated as a precious gift to the character, played by Gilliam himself, who wanders around under the delusion that the ordinary rocks he has picked off the ground are diamonds. Shallowness and lack of perception permeate almost all the characters, so much so that when the monster is killed, essentially by accident, one almost feels a twinge of sympathy for the Jabberwock stopped forever in its quest to rid King Bruno's kingdom of its inhabitants. It, at least, knows what it really wants.It's not a perfect film. The pacing slows in places. Some scenes could have been cut or trimmed. Nonetheless, it is memorable and thought-provoking and well worth viewing.

mario_c I was expecting to watch "Jabberwocky" for a long time because of the comparisons which many people do between this movie and the Monty Python's "Holy Grail". I really did like the Python's film so I was expecting something equally good in this one. I must say I didn't get disappointed."Jabberwocky" is a medieval tale about a monster which was frightening the lands of King Bruno "The Questionable", and it is, in a good measure, comparable to "Holy Grail". It might not to be so hilarious and so funnily absurd like Python's movie, but it has a similar kind of humour and many (good) laughable scenes. Like Python used to do, it mixes an intelligent and corrosive humour to the foolish type and the result is quite good and entertaining.The settings and the costumes are also very nice, because they really create a medieval "ambience".

arcaneheretic I rather liked this movie, it has that old cinematic appeal to it. Gilliam is a master at his craft. This is GOOD low budget stuff. If you like well done low budget film...There is a lot interesting history behind this movie that many people may not be aware of. This movie was being filmed at the time they were filming StarWars. And I believe Blake Edwards was filming A Pink Panther movie during this as well. I think they were trying to steal time on some of the expensive Edwards sets and got chased off.I found this movie funny. If your a Python fan you should like it.Best way is to judge for yourself.