Tuesday 11 December 2012

Quest For Camelot Review!

OK, this film was out around the time the Disney Renaissance was fully in swing. This would also be a time when other film companies would attempt to copy the Disney formula with their princesses/heroines, great musical numbers, great animation and epic magical spells. Quest For Camelot has none of this.
Quest For Camelot
Rating: **
It's about Kayley, a blatant rip-off of Belle, who's the daughter of one of the knights of King Arthur's Round Table voiced by Jessalyn Gilsig (Terri from Glee) who wants to become a knight, despite the obvious anti-feminist laws! Excalibur is stolen by Ruber, voiced by Gary Oldman, possibly the weirdest and most boring animated villain I've ever seen, like Spider Smith from Lost In Space, which happened to have been released in the same year as this movie! Yeah, Kayley meets Garrett voiced by Cary Elwes, with a very different singing voice, a blind hermit who 'stands alone' (yes, that's one of the songs in the film which has no use or purpose in the movie like all the other songs in this film!) Oh yeah, there's one thing I won't understand, there's no point of Garrett being blind and at times I even forgot he was blind!
Kayley and Garrett meet an incredibly annoying two headed dragon voiced by Eric Idle and Don Rickles who have no purpose but to annoy the hell out of us so they can be a 'comic relief ' Yeah they even sing a song like Elvis and a load of pop culture references, obviously ripping off Aladdin, which actually pulled it off and none of it has anything to do with the King Arthur legend! Yeah, I call that scene a Big-Lipped-Alligator Moment which has no explanation just like everything else in this piece of shit!
Yeah, also I personally think they were mostly focusing on the soundtrack for this film even though it was still crappy since they got a load of singers like Andrea Corr, Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion! I'm not kidding! And before you ask, that song The Prayer which nearly everyone has sang came from this film and is so out of place, it's unbelievable! Nobody would ever believe such a great song would originate from such a lame film, and that's an understatement!
I'm not gonna go on to reveal everything because it's as cliché as it gets, except the blind guy's still blind at the end of the film! Wow! I didn't think Camelot would have a load of douche-bags, just give the guy his eyes! So overall, it's awful, the characters are bland and annoying rip-offs, the animation's bad, the songs are like the composers crapped on it and called it 'music' except for the Prayer. And in the words of the Nostalgia Critic 'JUST EXPLAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIN!'
My next animated musical this month will be The Prince of Egypt, which I actually like and I'll definitely be doing a video review of Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas!

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