Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Palaest recommended

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

dccvc Many of the reviews here are unfair. Not every movie can be made with a $300 million dollar budget of the modern blockbusters, nor should they. For the type of movie this is, a direct to video comedy made for children, this was very good. It taught morals about duty, honor and kindness, all in a fun setting full of comedy and gags. Eric Olsen plays Artie, the son of Uther Pendragon, is sent to our time by the clumsy wizard, Merlin, played for comedic value by Arye Gross. Merlin was a fun character to watch. From his inability to focus his magic on the right people (leading to some funny background events: random pedestrians start flying, a kid starts floating in the middle of a restaurant while everybody else continues eating unawares) to his genuine desire to help Artie's mother (Alexandra Paul) stay the course on her optimistic balancing act of mother, waitress and evening school student, Arye Gross was a good pick for main supporting actor. The main actor, Eric Olsen, could have used a little more direction or refocused his acting for more comedy value, but he carried his inner emotional struggle very nicely. His lines did not create good characterization, but were effective enough that I wanted to see how things would end.Finally, a special shout out has to go to Katie Johnston playing Gwen (Guinevere, I'm guessing), Artie's best friend and potential love interest. It's a pity she wasn't in more movies. Her enthusiasm, facial expressions and genuine warmth were very fun to watch and kept the movie going, especially in the first half. She would make a great co-king/queen in whatever era she's thrown in. Now onto the bad, starting with the villains. A bikini armor clad Catherine Oxenberg playing the evil Morgana/ Principal Blackheart, is hard to take seriously. Fortunately she knew this, and plays her role very campy and jokingly. Unfortunately the director didn't realize this, and made the movie more serious than it needed to be. Her henchmen are of few words, but what little they have is laid back and fun. They are rarely a real threat, and kids can enjoy their antics and hammy lines. The battle at the start, with flailing swords, random screaming and, once again, a bikini armor Morgana, display the main weaknesses of the film. Whoever directed the physical swordfights should have watched Rob Roy, Ladyhawke or A Princess Bride to understand how to make cheap budget sword fights look cool. Instead, anytime a battle started I groaned at how silly it looked. To summarize, the budget of this movie was obviously very low, but several of the actors were very good and made the film worth watching. Just know that this is not a medieval action film like A Knight's Tale or Excalibur: this is a direct to TV teen comedy on par with Disney Channel originals from the early 2000s.

hlm129 Well, I've seen some terrible movies in my life, but this one takes the cake. I was watching it with my family and every single one of us was cracking up at times because of the awfulness of the movie.Acting: Terrible. Directing: Awful. Writing: Dreadful.The storyline was choppy and disconnected at times and some parts were just REALLY strange. The writing was so incredibly cheesy that at first I thought that it was a hokey movie meant to be a joke, but it's absolutely serious. The execution of the movie was an absolute joke. Maybe I'm being cynical and critical, but Arthur's Quest was just SO TERRIBLE that I cant help it.There are so many things that I could say wrong about this movie, but I really don't have the space so I'll just summarize by saying: DO NOT BUY THIS MOVIE! SPARE YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY THE DISGUST!

zeppo-2 If I was still 8 years old, I think I would have enjoyed this film immensely but since it's a long time since I was, it's difficult to try to view this from my present age. And be sure, this is a film for kids around that age, a throwback to the old live-action family films that Disney was churning out in the late sixties and seventies.Still, there's enough to keep adults interested, for the dads there is the scantily clad Catherine Oxenberg, looking more like a supermodel Xena than a medieval sorceress and for the mums there is the young hero's working mother to empathise with.For the rest of us, it's spotting all the holes in the plot! For instance, how are all the ancients from another century so familiar with modern age slang? Not to mention the fundamental flaw when the evil Morgana is defeated, if it was that easy, why not just do it from the start?Then again, that's rather unfair as we adults are not the intended audience and the kids it was aimed at, should like this.

Jonathan Horner Yep here we have an APEX beater. For those of you who don't know APEX is the worst movie ever, until I saw this! Arthur's Quest is without a doubt the worst movie I've ever seen. I thought Three Ninja's on Mega Mountain was bad but this is unbelievable!I'm not too sure what this movie is trying to achieve. The sword fight at the end is so gripping and brilliant...only joking, it's so bad you can tell that the actors have been training for about 5 minutes! It's not exactly Highlander.This may be a kids movie, but I think even a four year old would be disgusted by this movie! Bad plot, bad acting, bad movie.2/10