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One of Disney's most treasured animated classics comes to glorious life -- stunningly photographed on magnificent locations in India! Based on Rudyard Kipling's beloved short stories, this all-new adventure promises a journey beyond your wildest imagination! Raised by wild animals since childhood, Mowgli (Jason Scott Lee) is eventually drawn away from the jungle by Kitty, the beautiful daughter of ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, John Cleese
Directed By: Stephen Sommers

The lovably ugly green ogre returns with his green bride and furry, hooved friend in Shrek 2. The newlywed Shrek and Princess Fiona are invited to Fiona's former kingdom, Far Far Away, to have the marriage blessed by Fiona's parents--which Shrek thinks is a bad, bad idea, and he's proved right: The parents are horrified by their daughter's transformation into an ogress, a fairy godmother ...

Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
Starring: Andrew Adamson, Julie Andrews, Guillaume Aretos (II), Kelly Asbury, Antonio Banderas
Directed By: Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury

Could this be the funniest movie ever made? By any rational measure of comedy, this medieval romp from the Monty Python troupe certainly belongs on the short list of candidates. According to Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide, it's "recommended for fans only," but we say hogwash to that--you could be a complete newcomer to the Python phenomenon and still find this send-up of the Arthurian ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Connie Booth, Elspeth Cameron, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Carol Cleveland
Directed By: Terry Jones

Basil Fawlty, as created and performed by John Cleese, is the rudest, most boorish, most hilariously obnoxious man on the face of the planet. What a natural for a TV sitcom! His screen wife, Sybil (Prunella Scales), put it best in the episode "The Psychiatrist": "You're either crawling all over them, licking their boots, or spitting poison at them like some Benzedrine puff adder." He mockingly ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Ballard Berkeley

"Blessed are the cheesemakers," a wise man once said. Or maybe not. But the point is Monty Python's Life of Brian is a religious satire that does not target specific religions or religious leaders (like, say, Jesus of Nazareth). Instead, it pokes fun at the mindless and fanatical among their followers--it's an attack on religious zealotry and hypocrisy--things that that fellow from Nazareth ...

Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: Terence Bayler, Peter Brett, John Case, Graham Chapman, John Cleese

Perhaps only the collective brilliant minds of the Monty Python film and television troupe are up to the task of tackling a subject as weighty as the Meaning of Life. Sure, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and their ilk have tried their hands at this puzzler, but only Python has attempted to do so within the commercial motion picture medium. Happily for us all, Monty Python's the Meaning of Life ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Sydney Arnold, Imogen Bickford-Smith, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Carol Cleveland
Directed By: Terry Gilliam

Kevin Kline took home an Oscar for his performance as a self-absorbed lothario who prepares for lovemaking by drinking in his own "manly" musk, but it would be hard to single him out as the best thing about the film. The fact is, the entire cast of this hilarious comedy is perfect: John Cleese as the conservative barrister defending a member of sexy Jamie Lee Curtis's gang, Ms. Curtis as the ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Maria Aitken, Al Ashton, Roger Brierley, Ken Campbell, Cynthia Cleese
Directed By: John Cleese

Director Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill) clearly set out to make an old-fashioned Western, but he couldn't help bringing a hip, self-conscious attitude to the proceedings. Silverado thus finds its own funky tone--sometimes rousing, sometimes winking. Four cowpokes converge on a little Western burg called Silverado; they're played by Kevin Kline (a distinctly modern kind of Western ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, Marvin J. McIntyre
Directed By: Lawrence Kasdan

This second motion-picture outing for the adventurous Muppets finds them in London hunting down jewel thieves while staying at the city's most cheerfully derelict dive, the Happiness Hotel. Filled with song and dance (and swimming!) numbers, this Jim Henson-directed feature is worth seeing, if for nothing else than to see the cantankerous Charles Grodin (Beethoven) swoon over Miss ...

Manufacturer: Jim Henson Video/Buena Vista
Starring: Charles Grodin, John Cleese, Diana Rigg, Louise Gold, Robbie Barnett

This excellent theatrical feature is loosely based on the Swan Lake story. Princess Odette, having been turned into a swan by a sorcerer's spell, is held captive at the enchanted lake with friends Jean-Bob the frog, Speed the turtle, and Puffin the bird. Along comes Prince Derek, who becomes involved in liberating her by taking on the villain. The movie has been criticized for being too similar to ...

Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Starring: Jack Palance, Howard McGillin, Michelle Nicastro, John Cleese, Steven Wright
Directed By: Richard Rich