Quest For Camelot (1998)

My Rating: 20%


now frankly, a fair portion of what i'm going to say is stuff that are pointed out flawlessly well by the Nostalgia Critic, but the good thing is, I have a couple of things to point out too that he doesn't.


Plot: The story begins explaining how there was once war in the land until King Arthur pulled Excalibur from the stone and brought peace and formed the Knight of the Round Table. While telling that, the film is introducing the main character, Kayley who is the daughter of one of the knight of the round table who dreams of becoming a knight like her father (even though in reality she wouldn't because it's the dark ages). Then one day while there was a meeting at the round table, one knight, Sir Ruber reveals his lust for power and tries to take Excalibur only to be defeated, but Kayley's father is killed in the process. Years later after her father's death, Kayley grows up to be this strong-willing but slightly dim-witted girl who still dreams of becoming a knight and going off in a bunch of adventures. But then Excalibur gets stolen by a griffin working for Ruber, but loses it in the process, and at the same time, Ruber attacks her home with a plan to take over Camelot turning his mercenaries into some sort of monsters and by possessing Excalibur. When the griffin who turns out to be working for Ruber informs him that he lost Excalibur, Kayley escapes and goes off into the quest to find it before Ruber does and save Camelot.

Now this movie in incredibly cliche. Plus they are copying off of Disney a whole lot while they are at it. And it is found to have a lot fo things not explained and has a lot of plot holes.

Actors/Characters:
Jessalyn Gilsig/Kayley: So this is really some of the stuff Gilsig has done before Heroes and Glee. I mean while Kayley is strong-spirited, she's also dim-witted like I said. She doesn't even know what a Damsel is. and what especially gets the Nostalgia Critic when it comes to how this movie is copying off of Disney is how she looks almost just like Belle from Beauty and the Beast. I mean here's how he puts it while he was reviewing the film; "Okay so little Kayley mourns her father's death, she looks at her reflection on the pool and grows up to b- HI BELLE FROM BEAUTY AND THE BEAST! FANCY YOU FACE BEING SHAMEFULLY USED IN THIS MOVIE! I mean if you just switch places with them you get, yeah it's Belle, it's f*cking Belle." I mean it turns out that they even have Kayley being this girl who works in this farm and is all desiring to go out into the world for adventure. just. like. Belle. song and all...dude, seriously.
Cary Elwes/Garrett:In a way he's fun and charming. But he seems a bit dull the rest fo the time. I especially dislike (and so does the Nostalgia Critic) how he at first points out that he stand alone with this decent song, but then right after it, Kayley convinces him to have her tag along. And one plot hole is while people get changed back to their normal selves/heal but he doesn't regain his eyesight. that's stupid.
Eric Idle and Don Rockles/Devon and Cornwall:They tried so hard to be quite the comedy relief in this film but their characters were so cliche that the characters in general were just a big old FAIL!
Gary Oldman/ Sir Ruber: 1998 was not a good year for Gary Oldman. I mean you have this and Lost in Space where, as the Nostalgia Critic points out, the plays a villain were it's pretty much the same exact thing with both characters except Lost in Space was done "with SPIDERS!" But even then, Sir Ruber was a little messy. You couldn't really take him very seriously as a villain. I mean putting his cliche evil plan aside, while you have some of him being just dark and evil and powerful and can only be defeated by being tricked or some simple flaw to his evil plan, like Souron, Freddy Kruger, Darth Vader or Megatron, at the same time you have him as the villain where everything goes wrong in a cartoon type of way were he simply gives evil a very embarrassing name like Plankton from Spongebob Squarepants, that evil doctor from Phineas and Ferb and other villains from a lot of TV shows.
Frank Welker/Ayden: Welker is doing it again only this time he's a falcon. nuff' said.

Music: Generally it's really bad. I mean on the up side, I thought the first songs was catchy as far as the beginning music with the chorus and all that. And according to the Nostalgia Critic, there's a song that this movie actually got a Golden Globe for surprisingly, which was used in a point in the film that did not fit the scene at all. and sure, like I said, Garrett's song was decent too. But then there's Ruber's song. and it's just terrible. The main thing that's wrong with it is how the music is really catchy, but then Ruber is half singing and half speaking throughout the song and all the excitement you may have had as soon as the really cool dark music starts just vanish like that. and plus the beginning lyrics were just awful. first thing Ruber sings is "Let's go back to war and violence I'm so bored with peace and silence! Nights of evil, filled with fear. Your worst dream, that's my idea of fun! Let darkness find it's sad ways; Let's go back to good old bad days No more foolish acts of kindness." No really. that's what he says. they started with this fil just having him basically saying that he's evil in every cliche way they could think of.

Screenplay: cheesy and cliche. But what really gets you is that one of Ruber's minions is a chicken who has an ax as his beak, and later in the film he becomes good starting with beginning to beat up a bad guy saying "Sometimes I gatta ask myself; Do I feel clucky? Well DO YA PUCK!?!"...I wish I was kidding. He really really said that. What. The. Frick.


and that is my review for Quest for Camelot. Feel free to take a look at the Nostalgia Critic's review for it. it's so much funnier.