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Reviews - Black Knight |
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Black
Knight
(Fox Home
Entertainment) |
| DVD
Release Date: |
April
16, 2002
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| Length: |
96
mins. |
| Rated: |
PG-13 |
| Format: |
Widescreen
(2.35:1) |
| Languages: |
English,
Spanish |
| Subtitles: |
English,
Spanish |
| Extras: |
Director's Screen-Specific Audio Commentary, Audio Commentary by
Martin Lawrence on two scenes, Four Making-of Featurettes,
Deleted Scenes, Outtakes, Theatrical Trailers
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I thought they made smarter kid's movies
these days. That's assuming of course this was indeed targeted at that
young an audience. It's hard to blame Martin Lawrence for this
calamity since he was still playing the same character he had been in
all his movies. Instead, the entire premise was the culprit. Hadn't it
been tried plenty of times before? I'm not sure modern man in medieval
time ever worked as light comedy. What‘s new was playing the race
card for laughs along with some slapstick. And there are yuks to be
had, but nothing that remarkable. On a brighter note, kids will
probably enjoy themselves enough. After all, it's still got that
adventure angle.
With so many extras, I'm surprised they didn't market this DVD as a
special edition. One behind-the-scenes featurette lasting almost nine
minutes was quite good as was another on the subject of stunt work.
Two others were much shorter, dealing with set design and
choreography. The first was interesting, the latter, not. Also found
were, two short and dull interviews with Lawrence, two minutes of
unfunny outtakes, trailers for this and other Fox films, two
storyboard comparisons and three deleted scenes, one of which was
quite funny. A commentary track by director Gil Junger was informative
to a point, but also annoying as he seemed happy with every aspect of
the film.
While I am indeed one to find cultural comedy a riot (maybe more so
than others), here it all just felt old.
| The Movie: |
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3/10 |
| The Extras: |
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3/10 |
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| Recommendation: |
See It
If It's Free |
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