Quite silly but has its moments

Rating: 5/10 (9 January 2016)

Quite silly but has its moments.
A man in modern times, Ash (played by Bruce Campbell), is attacked by an evil force and transported back in time, to the Dark Ages. He is soon captured by the local king but eventually wins the locals over. The local wise man figures that Ash is The Chosen One, a special person sent to free the land from evil forces. To do so he must track down a special book, the Necronomicon, and recite a certain phrase. However, things don't go exactly to plan...
This started well. The jokes flowed thick and fast and Bruce Campbell was great with the one-liners. The plot was never going to be too serious but it wasn't too bad to start off with, and the humour carried the movie.
Then, from a point, it just got stupidly silly, and the jokes become less frequent. It stopped being a comedy and become a common-or- garden zombie / living dead movie. There were still a few good incidences and laugh-out-loud moments, but these were negated by the silliness of the plot.
Overall, more silly than funny, but not to a huge extent.