Please - I beg of you - do not watch this film unless you are willing to laugh. The acting is wooden, the dialogue so poorly contrived that it might have been written by a ten-year-old, the backdrops sometimes like a school pantomime, and it is all fantastic! This is one of those wonderful films that is so very bad, it is good.
I have seen it six or seven times, and I marvel each time as to how it was ever released. It takes "The Lord of the Rings", "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves", "The Princess Bride" and " Willow" and rolls them all into one, with dreadful special effects, unmitigatedly awful stop-go cinematography, and poor editing. It is a classic, whose whole is most definitely greater than the sum of its parts. Watch it and laugh.
I have seen it six or seven times, and I marvel each time as to how it was ever released. It takes "The Lord of the Rings", "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves", "The Princess Bride" and " Willow" and rolls them all into one, with dreadful special effects, unmitigatedly awful stop-go cinematography, and poor editing. It is a classic, whose whole is most definitely greater than the sum of its parts. Watch it and laugh.