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A Knight In Camelot

1998, Movie, 88 mins

A Knight In Camelot: Review

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Mark Twain's time-travel fantasy A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court has been adapted for the screen twice — as the 1949 Bing Crosby vehicle and 1931's A CONNECTICUT YANKEE — and has inspired variations ranging from UNIDENTIFIED FLYING ODDBALL to Sam Raimi's ARMY OF DARKNESS and the recent A KID IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT. But this made-for-TV version, starring Oscar winner-turned-Hollywood Square Whoopi Goldberg may just be the most irritating of them all. Dr. Vivien Morgan (Goldberg) is a scientist working a secret "Karblooey Project," exploring gravitational particles. Her experiment catapults her (along with her boom box, laptop and cell phone) back in time to the year 589, the age of Camelot. She's dragged before King Arthur (Michael York) as an ogre (ouch!) and finds disfavor with Queen Guinevere (Amanda Donohoe), but just as it seems Morgan is doomed to be burned at the stake, she makes crafty use of a solar eclipse to prove she's a great magician. Next thing you know, Morgan has been knighted "Sir Boss" by Arthur. With the help of a cute but smelly page named Clarence (Simon Fenton), she sets out to educate the populace about baths, freeing slaves, vegetarianism and creating a steam engine. Morgan also teaches the King how to high-five, and instructs the court in the finer point of dancing to Chubby Checker's The Twist. She finds enemies in Merlin (Ian Richardson) and the evil Sir Sagramour (Robert Addie), who challenges her to a duel after she calls him a "low-life, pond-sucking, tin can-wearing coward." But good triumphs over evil and everyone learns noble lessons before the final credits. Directed by Roger Young, the film's preachy sentimentality eventually overwhelms its sporadic spurts of humor. leave a comment --Dennis Dermody
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