The Meaning of Life

Movie • 1983 • Comedy  

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Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Actually, during the sketch of the "Every Sperm is Sacred" song, a catholic father tells all his children he's gonna have to sell them to scientist.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there bugs?
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Bodily Harm
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Again, live organ donations
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On the battlefield there is a soldier with his head lying next to him. He is still talking though
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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The Mr. Creosote sketch, from beginning to end.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there a hanging?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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A man is chased off of a cliff.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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A man literally explodes in one particularly gross sketch.
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At the end of the movie, a buch of characters meet at heaven, implying all of them died, and we get to see a group of children who earlier in the movie were "sold for science"
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Sort of? Children sing a song called "Every Sperm is Sacred."
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Death
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Family
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There's a cartoon bit about a family of leaves on a tree. The leaves falling in autumn is depicted as suicide. Father leaf does it first, followed by the grieving mother and then the two desperate children
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
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The finale is about dying. A dinner party is collected by the Grim Reaper.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Most of the Mr Creosote sequence involves vast amounts of projectile vomiting.
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Is there audio gore?
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A man has his organs removed off screen
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The movie pre-dates 9/11.
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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A baby is born.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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A drawn leaf on a tree does (as a father to his family)
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Mr. Creosote eats himself to death
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Swine_Brothers
There's a cartoon bit about a family of leaves on a tree. The leaves falling in autumn is depicted as suicide. Father leaf does it first, followed by the sad mother and then the two desperate children
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A bit simulating walking, during the section Part VI B: The Meaning Of Life
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Does a baby cry?
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dangerous_beans
Even more than you'd expect from a Monty Python feature film.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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2- neither graphic
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Played for laughs
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Are there fat jokes?
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Some pretty graphic ones
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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Religious
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The sexual attitudes of the Roman Catholic Church are portrayed and contrasted with those of the Church of England (for comedy in both cases).
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The movie is introduced by John Cleese as being "a lot of T&A".
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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A sexual education class is visited.
A horde of children sing about how every sperm is sacred.
A man is hounded to death by a horde of naked women.
Topless angels are seen.
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Mr. Creosote.
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dangerous_beans
The Catholic stance on birth control is portrayed satirically.
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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Live organ “donations” and some graphic scenes in the Zulu war bit.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there gun violence?
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