As you would expect from the Python team [Monty Python's Life Of Brian is] as dangerous as a sweating stick of nitroglycerine in the hands of a man suffering from palsy….

You'll have to take my word that nowhere does the film denigrate Jesus nor, if my memory serves me, is He depicted or even mentioned….

True religion, being un-mockable, is not mocked, but bogus, catchpenny and lunatic fringe religion is, and who would have it otherwise? That said, I will be very surprised if every religious bigot in the world doesn't use Monty Python's Life Of Brian as an excuse for airing their neuroses. Not that the film is all that concerned with religion. Like the sets which are a marvellous mixture of ancient Tunisian and modern lathe and plaster, the story is an ingenious blend of the 2000-year-old and now. Not that there are any anachronisms...