Ellen Anglin 2004-01-07
4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
When I ordered this movie, I was looking forward to a Cary Elwes Movie I hadn't yet seen. I awaited the arrival of the DVD with anticipation.
Now I wish I hadn't ordered it..
This film ranks right up there as one of the worst movies I have ever seen and not walked out on. I wish I could wash my brain out in bleachwater and forget it all!
This film has single handedly made me question my own taste; Was I a fool to like Shakespeare, the poetry of Emily Dickenson, and Cary Elwes? Maybe.
I'm sure they were aiming for broad humor, but damn It fell nothing but flat, and it left me squirming in embarrasment for each and every actor.
The Director should be pilloried. Every actor in it indulges in broad over acting worthy of your local amature theater, and as a stage play, it might have worked.
Maybe, but I have my doubts.
Not only did the director have everyone in this film overacting horribly, but the costume and makeup designers made sure they all looked as horrible as possible while doing it.
Watch the Previews available on the web.
Each actor actually lookes pretty good in the preview, compared to th film itself. The Moustache Cary Elwes he wears in this film...I cannot begin to verbalize my horror. And the hair. And the Toupees. The list goes on and on.
I suspect most of the actors in this film did it as a favor to somebody- maybe the Director, since she seems to have been the casting director on a lot of projects.
I don't know, but I suspect all of them ended up feeling very badly betrayed and embarrased by this project.
Ok, Have I ranted enough? Maybe not.
Please, even if you are in desperate need of a Cary fix, Stay away.
Watch "Lady Jane", "The Princess Bride" or "The Crush".
Heck, if you like war films, watch "Glory", but if you want to be able to enjoy these films without horrifying images of Cary in a Walrus moustach and oversized 1980' throwback spectacles popping to mind and ruining the experience, then stay far, far away from this video.
*Whimper*