My biggest problem with the film is its ending. It just…ends with Wart grabbing the sword out of nowhere and subsequently becoming king. If you knew the tale you knew this was where the film was going to end up, but it did so with almost no buildup whatsoever. It was like they created a film with fun characters teaching life lessons to the viewer and then remembered there was a certain way they had to resolve it. There’s never really any kind of story arc with Wart. It seems as though even after his lessons with Merlin he just falls into the right place at the right time and manages to pluck the sword from the stone. It felt really anticlimactic and rushed, which is too bad because the majority of the film was really strong.
I suppose the songs didn’t really do much for me either, but I can overlook that. Well, actually I can’t overlook Wart’s singing. Oh my god he is awful. He and Taran are seriously so bad. Why would the producers give him the go-ahead to sing at all? Merlin’s not a terribly good singer either, but at least it’s not offensive to my ears. The lyrics are pretty bad though. Higitus Figitus is basically just a bunch of nonsense that Merlin kind of sings. It’s fun, I guess.
Although this film is largely devoid of a plot, I enjoyed every single episode of Merlin’s antics and Wart’s transformations. Merlin especially made the film rank so high for me and helped carry the slack from the other two protagonists I wasn’t as fond of. It teaches us good lessons in the process of being an entertaining film, and for that I ranked it here in the top half.
Next Up: Its title consist of six syllables
How bout six WORDS. It is ****ing time. Deer god, you are gong to tell me there are only (at most) 21 films in the canon better than Snow White?
The Great Mouse Detective
Fantasia 2000
The Princess and the Frog
Those are the 3 it could be, of those it should be Fantasia 2000, but I am not sure if we are counting 2000 as as actually 3 syllables. So of the remaining two, it should be The Princess and the Frog. But being that Snow White is still alive, I am guessing it will be The Great Mouse Detective, tragedy though that would be.
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From: Regaro_Ukiera |
MWC is god-tier