On March 31, 1983, the Monty Python team unveiled their latest feature, The Meaning of Life, in theaters. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review of the R-rated Universal comedy is below.

Terry Jones as Mr Creosote in 1983's Monty Python's Meaning of Life. (Alamy) Of course, the purpose of the scene is not to make people run in terror, but fall from their seats laughing.

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The Monty Python team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do so by exploring the various stages of life, starting with birth.

By the time The Meaning of Life was finally finished, the various members of the group had all successfully begun to flex their non-Python identities; Gilliam, Idle and Jones had ambitions in film ...