The Sword in the Stone.
Well this is odd for me it's a classic Disney movie I had never seen before and I didn't plan on watching it this morning I was just dubbing the tape to Bluray for my little brother and sister and I intended to go play Halo while it ran but you know what it sucked me in.
Now it is from the period when Disney was having to cut budgets so it doesn't look as good as the older stuff and if you are looking for an accurate telling of the king Arthur legends you have to look elsewhere,this is Disney telling the story of when Arthur was a kid.
Still the animation for all it's roughness works and it has a lot of character and there are a ton of fun moments,I liked the characters and the world,and the songs were catchy. This may not be Disney at it's best but it is still a good animated film and since I liked it as an adult I would assume most kids would love it and I am sorry I didn't see it years ago.
There is just one thing I am surprised a certain scene has not been parodied to death either on TV or the internet. In it Merlin seems to be telling Arthur he has no choice but to have sex with a squire. I am not kidding,he tells Arthur it is no good fighting the female squire who is forcing herself on him. I know I am reading into a kids movie but watching it for the first time as an adult it is really strange and made me laugh because I just kept thinking about jokes I could make about this scene.
Oh and is it just me or was the wizard battle in this movie far more creative and exciting them the ones we got in the Harry Potter movies? I am not joking,I know it was played mostly for slapstick comedy but when i think of two Wizards fighting the type of stuff that was happening in this movie is what pops into my head. In Harry Potter they just pushed each other around and stood still firing bolts of light at each other. In this movie they turn into things,run around,and there is a real sense or energy and that they are being creative and using every spell they can think of to get the upper hand. Again I am not joking I found this slapstick fight more creative and exciting then the battles between Wizards in the Harry Potter films. This is the way Wizards should fight if you ask me.
If I had one complaint about the movie it would be that it sort of fizzles out at the end and doesn't have a real climax,Arthur gets the sword and that is it,the end. Still I see that as a minor complaint and while this may not be Disney at it's best it's still better then ninety percent of the kids films out there so I say if you have kids in your house hold or are just a fan of classic Disney films give this movie a shot you may be surprised by how much you enjoy it.
I give it 7.5/10.
P.S Merlin in this movie kind of strikes me as what you would get if you combined the first and second Doctors into one person so that added to the movie's appeal for me.