Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
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In Theaters : 14 June, 1991 |
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Impressively mediocre
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Watching this movie is rather like seeing an episode of "Star Trek: Voyager". You know it's going to be fairly bland, fairly dull and fairly uninteresting. You hope there might be a few scenes worth watching, but overall you know you're likelt to forget the movie as soon as you are done with it. Likely you won't think it was good or bad. Just that it WAS and beyond that... meh.
This early-90's, multi-cultural film has little in common with the far superior [[ASIN:B00005JKEZ The Adventures of Robin Hood (Two-Disc Special Edition)]]. It has some of the same characters and some of the same plot, but it parts company with the Robin Hood legend early on and doesn't look back.
I'm sure you're familiar with the basic plot. Robin Hood gets pissed off at the Norman nobility and goes on a rampage, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. He thwarts the wiles of the evil Prince John and his minion, the Sheriff of Notingham, whil at the same time winning the heart of the lovely Maid Marion.
Some of that is even in this movie!
Of course, Prince John is left out, as is the famous archery competition. Added in is a completely useless Moorish character who had no place in the film and does not appear at all in the Robin Hood legends. Clearly he was added in some pointless attempt to make the movie more, shall we say, colorful (the same reason we have a sub-Saharan African character in [[ASIN:B0009QTS1M Gladiator - Extended Edition (Three-Disc Extended Edition)]], though at least in that case we aren't butchering a legendary story to add him in. This is like throwing a Mongol character into "Beowulf").
There are some good things about the movie. The SFX and battles are decent. Alan Rickman chews up so much scenery one expects to find teeth marks in all the sets. Sean Connery's appearance is welcome and interesting.
But otherwise... meh. |
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