B for budget, A for fun

Rating: Null/10 (20 February 2013)

This will hit a particularly sweet spot, if you only let it. It will find the child in you, and tell you a story of medieval adventure and true love. There are going to be like in the storybooks, expert swordsmen, six-fingered knaves, giant rats, fiery swamps, the Dredd Pirate Roberts. The maiden will need last-minute rescuing from the cruel king.
But as the kid in you becomes prepared to be engrossed, the narrator will show you that it is all goofy make-believe for the kick of making it all up as we go. It will not be epic with grand battles and pure evil because you are not actually a child, but sketch only the picaresque outline of things, trusting you to imagine the rest.
So this is nice. Both the storybook for kids, and good-natured acknowledgment of its fiction.
We can be both in and out of the film, poking fun at knowing it is fun.