A very funny, stupid movie

Rating: 7/10 (22 June 2007)

From the mind that spawned Xena and Young Hercules comes a brilliant farce about a man from the 20th century hurled backwards in time and forced to destroy an ancient evil if he wants to get back home. Sam Raimi is well known as the man who transferred Stephen King's "the Shining" into a movie form. Here, he goes beyond horror into horror spoof. Army of Darkness might *look* like a poorly-made B-type movie, but that's really purely wonderful directing. It's *supposed* to look like a B movie because it engages in a lot of playful mocking of undead horror movies like "Night of the Living Dead." It is also the movie from which emerges one of the all-time classic lines of all time: "This...is my BOOMSTICK!!"