Well I can\'t fault you for disliking the location; you like what you like I suppose. But for the rest, I really must disagree with the blasphemous charge. Absolutely none of the jokes are at the expense of Christ Himself, He\'s played completely straight and all the members were adamant about that. The joke is that a man gets mistaken as a false saviour, and that\'s a situation that isn\'t unique in the slightest. The satire that exists is of religion in general, I find (I think it\'s the making of documentary where I believe it was Terry Jones saying the movie was partially commentary on the situation in the Middle East, but I don\'t really buy that as much as I do it as poking fun at the way religious people are wont to splinter and quick to exalt people) The most irreverent thing I can think of in the movie is their rather cheery treatment of crucifixion, and that was hardly a punishment that was reserved for Jesus. Heck, I think God\'s cameo in Holy Grail is more irreverent than that. As for zaniness, I suppose it\'s all in one\'s preference, but in my personal opinion being zany is all well and good, but Brian felt like a really well-knit, properly clever movie to me, and zany can only take you so far. I think that\'s where Meaning of Life fails for me. Singular zany moments are great - as a single sketch. As a movie it\'s just [i]too[/i] clunky and unconnected, and there\'s some bits that simply aren\'t funny no matter how zany they were. Killer rabbits and a sorcerer named Tim is funny because it\'s ridiculous, but a scene like the Roman graffiti lesson is funny because it\'s clever and amusing by it\'s own merit, not just for being ridiculous. That\'s just my personal preference on the humour though. It is a bit predictable (although if you predicted the aliens, then I salute you sir lol) but it\'s somewhat meant to be, what with meaning to parallel (not mock) the Christ story. True enough, most Americans have only seen Holy Grail, although most the Python fans I\'m friends with think Brian better. But critically, Brian almost always ranks higher than Holy Grail, and Pythons themselves have stated that they think it\'s their best (in addition to probably enjoying filming it more than the misery they dealt with filming Holy Grail lol)