“As the world watched the incredible opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the same thought was on many minds: How in the world can London possibly top this in 2012? Faced with that challenge, director Danny Boyle seems to have been inspired by the title of a Monty Python film: “And now for something completely different.”
I don’t know if Boyle’s opening ceremony was good. I don’t know if it was bad. I know it was surely the sort of event for which the British invented the term “gob-smacking.” It was truly, deeply, British. It was by the Brits and for the Brits.”
— Oh, how I wish you could hear this! - Roger Ebert’s Journal
