Review – Excalibur

The darling of Renaissance Festival and sci-fi-con crowds everywhere, this is a hackneyed retelling of the Arthurian legend. I admit that when I was a zit-faced geek teenager I thought it was the ultimate challenge to sneak past the gatekeepers at the convention movie auditorium so I could see the legendary scene where Uther Pendragon, while still clad in full armor, does the horizontal bop with his rival’s wife. Puberty now safely behind me, this seems less a couple of hours of pure magic and more a vast, expensive pageant of hacking, slashing and scenery-chewing. So maybe the appeal here is in the eye, or at least the age, of the beholder. See if desperate