But yeah, if you're trying to say that Monty Python would not have been successful, if they had done things that upset the ways by which they had been successful, yeah, maybe so, of course.
There's no need to delicately parse my words. I'm only saying what many others here have said: that, between the plot, the heroes, the villain, the side characters, the OG cameos, and the bit players (such as the tour guide and the university president and the mayor and the federal agents),
everyone and
everything in
GB16 was zany, and in a movie 24 minutes longer than
Python/Grail. (Or, in the case of the blu-ray extended cut,
41 minutes longer.) As Ebert said about action in
The Mummy Returns, after a while, constant zaniness is just plain exhausting. (And, IMHO, even
Python/Grail, while certainly gut-busting in its first half, palpably overstays its welcome, while the similarly short
Brian fares better, due in large part to Brian's moderating/grounding character.)
I loved Kevin so much.
Ok, but his character was, quite simply and literally, too mentally impaired to function outside of a permanent, nursing-staffed group home, and our heroines kept him around for ogling and made sexual remarks about him anyhow. I know that Dana gets raped (albeit while unconscious/possessed) in the original
Ghostbusters, but if we're being honest, let's be honest.
