He can act some, too, although that particular skill is not much called upon here. Under any circumstance. For any amount of money. Not that that's going to matter. The jousting tournaments are shot like a football game.
Rock music plays.
We Will Rock You. After the end credits, there's even a fart joke. This should be alchemy at its worst, but somehow the lead yields gold. Although the anachronistic music did grate on me, it does set the tone of giddy postmodernism that reigns through the first half of the film. It almost plays like a fractured comedy.