Quest for Camelot (G) * 1/2 Featuring the voices of Cary Elwes, Eric Idle Directed by Frederik Du Chau A Review by Frankie Paiva
I challenge any film reviewer to find an animated film that is more sickeningly bad, predictable, and stupidly sappy than this one. The winner (if one finds a film worse than this) will receive the chance to remove this movie from all video shelves across America.
Kayley (Jessalyn Gilsig) has always dreamed of becoming a knight of the round table just like her father Sir Lionel (Gabriel Bryne) so when the evil Ruber (Gary Oldman, who's character is scarier than he is) has his Griffin steal Excalibur, he plans to rule all, but the Griffin drops it in the "Forbidden Forest."
Kayley runs away from her mother (Jane Seymour) to find the famed sword where she meets up with a blind man (Elwes) who has magically lived his entire life in the forest alone with a falcon that helps him see.
Throw in a two-headed wisecracking dragon and you've got probably one of the worst family films ever made. Never mind that the animation is pretty, and Kayley always remains pretty and clean throughout the entire movie, this is just plain bad material (that doesn't deserve this long of a review) and for that I give it a paltry * 1/2 stars.
A Review by Frankie Paiva The 12 Year-Old Movie Reviewer E-Mail Me at SwpStke@aol.com
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