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A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

Animation · Comedy · 2012

John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam pay tribute to their late Monty Python colleague Graham Chapman in this hilarious, 3-D animated adaptation of Chapman's brazenly fictionalized life story.

Movie details

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

“Still Dead, And Now in 3D”

2012 Animation · Comedy 1h 25m

Critical arithmetic

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IMDb

5.8 / 10

1.8K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

45 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

45 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

5.9 / 10

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John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam pay tribute to their late Monty Python colleague Graham Chapman in this hilarious, 3-D animated adaptation of Chapman's brazenly fictionalized life story.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Bill Jones · Jeff Simpson · Ben Timlett

Written by

Graham Chapman · David Sherlock

Graham Chapman

Graham Chapman

Self (voice)

Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam

Various (voice)

John Cleese

John Cleese

Various (voice)

Michael Palin

Michael Palin

Various (voice)

Carol Cleveland

Carol Cleveland

Various (voice)

Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz

Seigmund Freud (voice)

Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

Oscar Wilde (voice)

Court is in session

Put A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“It owes the canon nothing.”

The movie pursues immediacy and audience pleasure without begging institutions to certify its worth.

The prosecution The Big-Idea Head

“Easy pleasure, short half-life.”

It moves efficiently through the moment but offers little reason to keep arguing once the credits end.