Entre Buena y Muy Buena

For Love and Gold's anticipation of Monty Python's Holy Grail is often striking, but viewers expecting that level of absurdism and nonsense will be disappointed. There are several laugh-out-loud moments, but generally Age and Scrapelli's script is subtler, leaving room for enjoyment of the atmosphere, characterization, great acting and music. There is wry humor in such details as costume design. Very recommended watching, even if this hasn't aged as well as other Monicellis.

Brancaleone is a funny character; he's brave and honorable, but a bit of a blowhard and a buffoon, and his "army" is made up of some very colorful characters. There's definitely a Holy Grail kind of vibe to the little troupe of goofs wandering around in their patchwork armor, bouncing from one silly scene to the next...Monty Python must've been influenced by this. Sadly, some of the humor is lost in translation but there's still lots of laughs and a surprising amount of bloody action.

Cinephiles love this film because it's the kind of lowbrow comedy they secretly love and openly condemn, only it's italian so it's ok, hooray for Brancaleone. So I tried to hate this film, but there's too much good going on about it, from the settings and the surreal costumes to the hilarious situations.So I tried to love it but, then again, it's just too amateurish and its humour is mostly plain out wrong (they realy squeezed the jew jokes). So I guess it's just fair. Awesome theme song though.

One of the best discoveries of the year for me! Also look for the sequel, Brancaleone Alle Crociate.