The Monty Python folks ARE coming back in a new DVD... just not today.

Life of Brian was slated to hit the shelves today (November 20) but, in a story from DVD Town, the release has been pushed to January 29. This comedy classic will be released in both the standard and Blu-Ray editions. The film stars Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.

Synopsis

On a midnight clear 2,000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an infant called Brian...and the three wise men are in the wrong manger. For the rest of his life, Brian (Graham Chapman) finds himself regarded as something of a messiah -- yet he's always in the shadow of this other guy from Galilee. Brian is witness to the Sermon of the Mount, but his seat is in such a bad location that he can't hear any of it ("Blessed are the cheesemakers?"). Ultimately, he is brought before Pontius Pilate and sentenced to crucifixion, which takes place at that crowded, nonexclusive execution site a few blocks shy of Calvary. Rather than utter the Last Six Words, Brian leads his fellow crucifixees in a spirited rendition of a British music-hall cheer-up song {&"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." The whole Monty Python gang (Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, and Terry Gilliam) are on hand in multiple roles, playing such sacred characters as Stan Called Loretta, Biggus Dickus, Deadly Dirk, Casts the First Stone, and Intensely Dull Youth; also showing up are Goon Show veteran Spike Milligan and a Liverpool musician named George Harrison.

Special Features

- Commentary with Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle and Terry Jones

- Commentary with John Cleese and Michael Palin

- Brand new hour-long documentary "The Story of Brian"

- An illustrated 110 minute recording by the Pythons of their early screenplay in progress

- 5 Deleted Scenes

- Original Radio Ads featuring John Cleese's mother, Eric Idle's mother, Terry Gilliam's mother and Michael Palin's dentist