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.
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New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Gilliam's first fully equipped playpen and if he musses it up -- I mean, really musses it up --well, prodigies will be prodigies.
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Village VoiceJessica Winter
Village VoiceJessica Winter
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."
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Variety
Variety
Long on jabber but short on yocks.
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L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn Dumpert
L.A. WeeklyHazel-Dawn Dumpert
Jabberwocky is not a Python film, a fact most obvious in its marked lack of humor.
