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Information
- Year
- 2019
- Runtime
- 120 min.
- Director
- Joe Cornish
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Family
- Rating *
- 6.1
- Votes *
- 0
- Checks
- 433
- Favs
- 9
- Dislikes
- 10
- Favs/checks
- 2.1% (1:48)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
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Siskoid
Joe Cornish made Attack the Block, so I was expecting good things from The Kid Who Would Be King. I got them. Pitched at a family film audience, Cornish offers another underdog genre story, this one making good use of Arthurian legend, and knowingly winking at other "chosen one" narratives. Kind of like a big budget episode of the Sarah Jane Adventures (not to namecheck Doctor Who directly), it has fun with its school setting, but also attempts a greater, Tolkienesque scope. The kids are engaging, and permission is granted for younger audiences to learn the spellcraft - it looks hard but achievable! - from Middle School Merlin (Angus Imrie delivers half the laughs, Sir Bedevere most of the rest). And it's got something to say about leadership, about nobility and the chivalric code, and about, well, Brexit. Why else would Morgaine suddenly have the power to return to plague Albion? It's up to the kids to save the world from itself... isn't that always the way? An aspirational success! 5 years 2 months ago