Not exactly my holy grail of tea but still very enjoyable. »»
Camelot gets the Smallville treatment and, surprisingly, it works. »»
To be sure, there's never been a shortage of movies about the tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Perhaps no legend carries such a universal knowledge in pop culture, as in the category of cinema alone, film interpretations on various facets of the story stretch as far back as 1904 with an adaptation of Richard Wagner‘s opera, Parsifal, leading all the way to 2007's The Last Legion. Varying degrees of success with film versions abound, with masterpieces of storytelling like Excalibur or riotous farces like Monty Python and the Holy Grail unfortunately being the brilliant exceptions amongst the plethora of mediocrity to be found, exemplified by 2004's big budget failure King Arthur. This is what makes a film like Disney‘s 1963 classic The Sword in the Stone such a rare treat. »»
