Some movies have the power to surprise you. You find something you didn't expect and when you're finished watching it, you find that you had a much better time than you expected to have.
This movie does surprise, but not in a good way. From the description, I was expecting to see an interesting portrayal of medieval characters put into a modern setting and having interesting reactions to all the trappings of modern life.
What we have instead is a simple farce, with two idiots bumbling through a forced plot. The protagonists act more like jumpy animals than genuine human beings, running in random directions, attacking people at random, and breaking random things.
Fine - a bit disappointing - but let's take it as an idiot farce. It's fine, in that sense, but not too funny because it's predictable and the humor is quite base. Expect to be treated to plentiful fart jokes, poop jokes, vomit jokes... jokes about stench and bodily fluids.... Was this supposed to be a children's movie?
Not only is this movie boringly simplistic in its humour, but it's ethically inconsistent and offensive. The main protagonist is a misogynist. He chastises a character for physically threatening a woman but proceeds to throw women around himself on several occasions. The descendant of a peasant is punished for... trying to rise above his station in life? I guess the creators of this film think all poor people should know their station in life and stay there.
Don't waste your time with this royalist, confused collection of potty humour skits.
Honourable Mentions: Kickin' It Old School (2007). Some kid falls into a coma in the 80's and wakes up in the 2000's or something. Same premise and equally juvenile humor, but it's not ethically offensive and it's much funnier than this.
This movie does surprise, but not in a good way. From the description, I was expecting to see an interesting portrayal of medieval characters put into a modern setting and having interesting reactions to all the trappings of modern life.
What we have instead is a simple farce, with two idiots bumbling through a forced plot. The protagonists act more like jumpy animals than genuine human beings, running in random directions, attacking people at random, and breaking random things.
Fine - a bit disappointing - but let's take it as an idiot farce. It's fine, in that sense, but not too funny because it's predictable and the humor is quite base. Expect to be treated to plentiful fart jokes, poop jokes, vomit jokes... jokes about stench and bodily fluids.... Was this supposed to be a children's movie?
Not only is this movie boringly simplistic in its humour, but it's ethically inconsistent and offensive. The main protagonist is a misogynist. He chastises a character for physically threatening a woman but proceeds to throw women around himself on several occasions. The descendant of a peasant is punished for... trying to rise above his station in life? I guess the creators of this film think all poor people should know their station in life and stay there.
Don't waste your time with this royalist, confused collection of potty humour skits.
Honourable Mentions: Kickin' It Old School (2007). Some kid falls into a coma in the 80's and wakes up in the 2000's or something. Same premise and equally juvenile humor, but it's not ethically offensive and it's much funnier than this.