Only a little disappointing

Rating: 8/10 (6 March 2003)

You've gotta hand it to Sam, he certainly knows how to make us laugh.
Ditching much of the horror and goriness of the previous two films for sheer childish hilarity, he takes us on a rollercoaster ride of a movie that only fails in a couple of places.
I like the idea of having an antihero rather than the usual Mr. Goody Goody. Poor old Ash has been stuck in a cabin with a bunch of murderous deadites for two nights and has now been catapulted back in time to the year 1300ad. To put it bluntly, he's having a bad week. So it's understandable that he's such an a**hole in this film, but the audience stays with him anyway because they realise they're stuck with him for the rest of the film.
Now the down points:
Although the film has some really funny moments not all the humour works all of the time. Also the special effects aren't exactly brilliant (although the stop-motion skeletons were really well done). At the beginning of the film Ash falls out of the sky and lands in the middle of a desert. You know... that really famous desert that was around in 14th century England.
On the whole. Army of Darkness is a very enjoyable movie, as long as you take it at face value and don't read too much into it.