This article comes from Den of Geek UK.

There aren’t a whole lot of Easter movies. It would be odd if there was, really. Sitting somewhere in between kids’ films like Hop or the Easter Bunny bits of Rise Of The Guardians, and more violent fare like Mel Gibson’s The Passion Of The Christ and the far more emotionally gruelling John Michael McDonagh film Calvary, (or ‘The Passion Of The Brendan Gleeson’) your best bet is Monty Python’s Life Of Brian, which is back in cinemas for its 40th anniversary.

For those who’ve never seen it, the film stars Graham Chapman as a man called Brian Cohen, who was once a teenager called Brian, and a boy called Brian, and so on. Born on Christmas Day in the manger next door to Jesus Christ, Brian is mistaken for the messiah from very early on, with characters played the other Pythons coming to either worship him or flagellate him throughout the film.

As long as the film has been around, it’s been called blasphemous, but it’s not. By constantly distinguishing Brian from Christ and levelling all mockery at the various denominations that instantly spring up around him, it’s more heretical. It’s important to know the difference, especially when Christians still seem to be more fussed about it than Himself indoors.