by Daniel Johnson

Created on: January 30, 2007

THE RUTLES 2 : CAN'T BUY ME LUNCH

"Did you ever get the feeling that the truth is less revealing than an outright lie?"
- Ron Nasty (Neil Innes)

An utterly unneccessary and painfully unfunny sequel to the classic '77 NBC TV special parody of the Beatles (ALL YOU NEED IS CASH). Apparently former Python and also formerly funny Eric Idle felt he was justified re-hashing the enterprise by airing un-used footage from the original and adding new A-list celebrity interviews (Steve Martin, Conan OBrien, David Bowie, Salman Rushdie, even Jewel for Christ-sakes!) but except for the occasional witty line - "I loved A HARD DAY'S RUT, that has influenced all of my work. That and some of the stuff the Turtles did" (Garry Shandling) this is a cringe inducing fest of bad ad-libs and smug posing.

THE RUTLES 2 confirms that Eric Idle is officially THE GREEDIEST PYTHON.

For those of you keeping score -

John Cleese - THE SNOTTIEST PYTHON
Michael Palin - THE WORLD WEARIEST PYTHON
Terry Jones - THE MOST MEDIEVAL PYTHON
Terry Gilliam - THE MOST OVER BUDGET PYTHON
Graham Chapman - THE MOST DEAD PYTHON

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