The Personal Best of Monty Python

6 discs with new material from the Pythons, with Graham Chapman's disc being a tribute. Mostly each member's personal picks from the TV series. I dunno, I once revered them as a young adult but these days, just find them to be full of histrionics, and the sketches, mostly absurdities, aren't really terribly witty or clever. Sketches such as Wuthering Heights in Semaphore, once you get past the surrealism, doesn't really strike me as anything that giggle-inducing. My favourite new bit is the John Cleese video, full of bile and venom while my favourite disc is the Terry Gilliam one(all animations), at least it doesn't try hard to make you laugh, just floats right on by.

Eddie Murphy - Delirious

The classic stand-up routine from the Washington set. All the oft-quoted jokes are here, my three fave ones being "take the wheel, Stevie Wonder", "put your dick in and explode" and "GI Joe in the cave of bubbles" ones, all here. Funny and makes you miss his comedic genius, what he is now being a caricature of the funniness of his youth.

Spaceballs

As again, I loved this as a kid. But find it groan-inducing now. The timing of the jokes aren't particularly good, nor the parodies of Star Wars that clever. Can't understand why it has such a cult following. Deuuhhhhrrrrrr!!!!!!!! "I see your schwartz is as big as mine". Only enjoy the good-natured humour of John Candy, that's about it.

The Indian Tomb

One of the last movies by Fritz Lang, this is the sequel to "The Tiger of Eschnapur", both based on early German silent films written by Lang's ex-wife and Nazi sympathiser, Thea von Harbou. Nothing much to savour here, no evidence of the Lang touch, being a routine romp that proposes to be a gateway to India. Still, to its favour, it doesn't drag and it's quite entertaining. In Eastmancolour.