[Monty Python's] Meaning of Life

[Monty Python's] Meaning of Life

Universal

31 March 1983

Comedy
DVD
C

OK, so here's the thing.  I saw this (on VHS) two or three years after it came out, and I found some parts funny and some parts disgusting, but the best part was undoubtedly the dazzling "Every Sperm Is Sacred" segment (including the Protestant couple across the way).  It remains both brilliant satire and a catchy musical number.  But the rest of the first half hour I watched today just didn't click with me.  And I really didn't want to reexperience the restaurant scene again.

Beethoven's Christmas Adventure

Beethoven's Christmas Adventure
Studio Unknown
October 4, 2011
Children's, Comedy, Fantasy
DVD
C-

This seventh entry in the franchise was straight-to-video, but it's not as bad as I expected, especially considering I've never seen any of the others.  Not that it's good-- not with jokes about drool and a queeny mall elf-- but the teen hero (played by Munro Chambers) is better than necessary and it's not surprising the actor went on to various incarnations of Degrassi.  

John Putch directed.  Note that this is the third movie with Tom Arnold (here voicing the dog) that I've rejected, although that's not his fault.