Absolutely Anything (2015)

6.0R85 minDirector: Terry Jones

2015 British science fantasy comedy film

Absolutely Anything is a 2015 British science fantasy comedy film directed by Terry Jones, and written by Terry Jones and Gavin Scott. It stars Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rob Riggle, Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley, with the nonhuman characters' voices provided by John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Jones, Michael Palin and Robin Williams. It was the first movie to feature all living Monty Python members since Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983), and the first without Graham Chapman, who died in 1989.

Principal photography and production began on 24 March 2014 and ended on 12 May that year. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2015 by Lionsgate UK, and in the United States on 12 May 2017, grossing $6.3 million worldwide. It mainly received negative reviews from critics.

This was the last film to involve Jones, five years before his death in 2020. It was also the last film with Williams in the main cast, released a year after his death in 2014.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Absolutely Anything (2015) — Some aliens, who travel from planet to planet to see what kind of species inhabit them, come to Earth. And if humans are, according to their standards, decent, they are welcomed to be their friend. And if not, the planet is destroyed. To find out, they choose one inhabitant and g
Is Absolutely Anything based on a true story?
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Content rating: R. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.
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