A somewhat humorous twist on the tales and legends of King Arthur/Camelot. A late 20th century "mad scientist" of sorts resurrects Guinevere wearing dreadlocks, Merlin and some knights and they must stop Morgana and Mordred from returning.
There are some intentionally funny moments: like Merlin running down the road without pants, the knights being thrown from a diesel truck. Other parts of the film are meant to be taken seriously, I guess, but are funny - unintentionally funny. I would say this film is quite campy.
It's an awful film, but it does make a good comical afternoon matinée. It's a family film so I would recommend keeping that in mind if you decide to watch.
4/10
Merlin: The Return
2000
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Horror
Merlin: The Return
2000
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Horror
Plot summary
When Merlin cast a positive spell to protect the knights of the Round Table, he used ancient magic drawing on the power of Stonehenge, and the knights were put into a sort of suspended animation. The evil Morgana and her son Mordred were banished into another world for 1500 years, but a 20th-century scientist finds a gateway, and the dark lord has a vicious scheme to enslave King Arthur's world.
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Awful But Funny - Guinevere in Dreadlocks
Rik had a bad couple of years.....
.....What with his accident, Guest House Paradiso, and this, it was a low point for the funny,an, and after this, the only way was up.
The dark forces of Mordred are pitted against the mythical sorcery of Merlin. Mordred and his mother Morgana have been imprisoned in another world for the past 1500 years while Merlin's magical powers kept them at bay.
However, in the present, a scientist accidentally finds the gateway to the other world and is about to release Mordred into 20th Century life.
Arthur is reawakened from his slumber and together with Merlin, tries to find a way to stop Mordred from re-entering this world.....
To say the film is bad would be an understatement. I have seen some turkeys in my time, but this is below the children's film foundation standards, and seeing the likes of Bergin, Mayall, and even Sheffer, utter an inane script and perform against horrible CGI skeletons.
But that's not the bad part, the child actors are skull scraping lay bad, and Tia Carrere, once brilliant in Wayne's World and True Lies, is the pits, the absolute pits.
But for such a dog of a movie, it must have mystical powers, because I couldn't take my eyes off screen for a second.
On the plus side, it's the best Stonehenge based movie featuring Merlin in the present ever made.
I will give it that.