Kaamelott: First Installment

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Kaamelott is a fair movie but you have to know the TV series, to appreciate the tone and inside jokes. The story is a continuation from the ending of the series. The film kind loose it's sharpness in the middle, and get it back at the end. So, there are parts that feels a bit ordinary. Not much action, and not spectacular. It's a low budget comedy. The soundtrack is pretty good. I give it 72%. It's not perfect and not always well rhythm in terms of pace, but I think it was a nice return to the lore and comedy of Kaamelott.

To be straight - people that do not know the original series, won't understand this movie. And it's a question if fans can like it. It's so bad, that after using IMDB without registry, i registered to leave the firs review ever. Hoped it to be at least 50% of what Les Visiteurs was, but thats not even 5%. I know that french comedy is specific (mostly linguistical), so watching the translated version possibly spoiled some jokes, but even with that, i saw less than 5 jokes over whole movie. It is not comedy enougth to be comedy movie, and the 3 minutes of lighting effect on the sword is not enougth for this to be fantasy movie. It's not funny if you watch it with brains turn off, and not funny when you try to watch it with deeper analysis. It's just not fun. I love absurd comedies, but without enougth density and good punch lines, the movie is just absurd. I adore Les Visiteurs, Monthy phyton and the holy grail, Brians life. But Asterix and Obelix movies are much funnier than this. Its possibly just a bad scripted first year student intro movie for upcoming TV series, that won't be aired outside France.

The series is amazing. 10 stars. But the film was quite underwhelming. Arthur is forced to come back and ends up accepting his role. Basically that is the whole film. The costumes are ridiculous. In the series they were quite of the time or at least as we think of as of the time. In the film they look like something out of Dr Who (fans will know what I mean). Definitely don't watch if you haven't watched the TV show because you will not understand otherwise.