I defy you not to laugh at the centurions trying-not-to-laugh scene. “Life of Brian” got a big thumbs up from Roger Ebert who reminds us,
The difficulty with a literal interpretation of the Bible is that it is a translation of a translation of a translation of documents that were chosen by the early church from among a much larger cache of potential manuscripts.
“You’ve all got to think for yourselves!” Brian exhorts his followers, who obediently repeat after him: “We’ve all got to think for ourselves!”
“We are all individuals!”
One of the greats.