Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

jessicahrogers My cousins fished this out of the Walmart value bin, along with many other classics, like the "The New Adventures of Robin Hood" and "Tommy: Lost in the Jungle" cartoons. BUT THIS IS LIVE-ACTION. You get to see real people, in 3D, working their magic(*wink-wink*). Everyone who has watched this film is lucky. The cast, the story, the setting...all masterfully done. Dissenters simply don't understand king things. I am certain that I am right. A fool? I AM NOT!

Zak1413 Like most people here, i got this movie from the wal-mart bin. I thought it couldn't be that bad. Boy was i wrong! This movie is MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE 3,000 worthy. It starts off with two elf dudes running from the Red Cap. Both die after being hit with the cap's weapons. These deaths don't foreshadow anything else. These are the only deaths in the movie.The plot line is of a typical one. Loner boy gets picked on my bullies, meets a strange man, and discovers a whole new world where he is accepted. Nothing new here. If you listen to the commentary, the director says himself that the costumes were put together. And it shows. A lot. The audio is off kilter too. It shows a lot like at the part where max's father goes woah. The audio is either a little late or early(I'm not sure). In some cases the audio is so crude it becomes like a godzilla film.The movie is not all lost. The clothes and looks of max and his class mates make them look like they should have been in the SMASHING PUMPKINS' 1979 music video. And thats awesome. Also, the make-up. The make-up is actually pretty good. The best is on the red cap and lord dagda. Speaking of characters, whats up with TOM TIT TOT? Whats sad is that if you look at the making of bonus feature, everyone takes this movie seriously. Little did they know that instead of making a fantasy, they were actually making a comedy. Did they really think that this would become an American classic? If this was in theatres, it prob. would make a couple thousand.Overall, if you're looking for a good laugh, watch this movie. From the characters, dialog pauses, and an annoying mouse, this movie is funny.

gargoylesama The six year old in the house was given this as a gift. I don't know if the person was intentionally trying to cause the harm to our sanity or not. Yes, true grasps of sanity were stripped away with the viewing of this.I have suffered Care Bears, Dora, even Elmo... and in comparison, they are high cinema.The costuming looks as if the local Live Action Role Playing group was approached and told to bring their outfits. The fight scenes look of the same caliber. And if I continue on the LARP hypothesis, the back story of the fantasy world could come from them also.If this is so, then I am sure that those that play the game fully enjoy it and it is a compelling story, but there is too much missing to fully pull in an audience not in the know.All in all, not a compelling story, nor dynamic acting.

jay_042 Like just about everyone who got this flick, I found it in the Wal-Mart bargain bin, stuck near the bottom with to several copies Howard the Duck. I'm a sucker for a cheap bad movie, so I got it on a whim. I was expecting cheese, I got some really smelly Limburger.Opening with the two low rent Rennisance Festival Fugitive Elves (with lots of shots of their sneakers cleverly disguised in gunny sacks) running through the forest. Ugly Axe Guy is in pursuit, and throws a long handled battle axe into the back of the RFFE carrying a scroll. RFFE number two picks up the scroll and runs once again. Ugly Axe Guy decides to deal with Number Two with his flail, throwing it with the grace and technical skill of a William Shatner fight scene.Shatner naturally comes to mind when I see this movie. When Ugly Axe Guy pulls his axe out of the back of the dead Elf, We see that the highly abused elves in this scene happen to have GREEN BLOOD. So, does that mean we're on Vulcan? Elf Number Two is now crawling, apparently he couldn't get his leg untangled from the flail that is loosely wrapped about his foot. He shambles to a conveniently placed door (in the middle of an otherwise uninhabited forest according to the numerous tracking shots in the opening) quickly, Elf Number Two tosses the scroll through the door as Evil Axe Guy brings his might axe down and mercifully leaves the movie for the next 45 minutes.Then we see the scroll "magically" appearing in a flurry of cheap digital sparkles at the feet of an old gardener who looks sorta like old Obi Wan Kenobi. He picks up the scroll and starts reading, and a young girl's voice-over tells about the ongoing struggle with the UnSeelies in the BlueBell forest and how things look bleak and grim at the moment and how it would be a good time to bring that savior here and all. All the while the scene is cut with pointless closeups of a mouse and a hawk. You expect the hawk is going to swoop down and eat the mouse, and seeing how the mouse starts talking and won't shut up later in the movie, I so desperately wished that was the case. The voice over ends with "Help us, you're our only hope" at which point Sorta Kenobi looks up to the sky and we fade out.Then things quit making sense....Seeing how the past few paragraphs represent the first five minutes of this flick, I can tell you it just goes downhill from this point. From the introduction of the villain Dagda (he looks sorta like Tim Curry as Darkness from "Legend" but acts like Tim Curry as Frankenfurter from "Rocky Horror Picture Show") to the big showdown between good and evil (evil being armed with foam rubber hammers) this movie is nothing but a slow, agonizing, descent into cinematic masochism. If it wasn't for the presence of multiple friends to help riff on this movie, there is no way I could sit through it. After showing this, I've had friends refuse to never again let me pick movies for us to watch. This movie is pain, watch it at your discretion.