I personally like Morgana or Morgan Le Fay or Morgan or whatever she’s called. She kicks ass and gets up to no good but she spots the rot in Arthur’s Utopian little happy gathering and exploits it. Thats what women do. We spot the rot.

I think it’s pancake day. Yes, it’s pancake day. P-p-p-p-pancake day.

Your throwaway comment about Robin Hood led to me watching “Bear Necessities” “I wanna be like you” and “Everybody wants to be a Cat” on youtube, so I forgive you :)

As a Sir Gawain nerd (um, in a medieval literature sense at any rate) I’ve always been disturbed by how beardy he is in Excalibur!

I have no idea why. It’s not necessarily inaccurate (I’ve just seen too many Pre-Raphaelite prettyknights(TM), but I’ve never seen him as that strapping and booming! His speaking lines are few, too. The beard absorbed them all, or something.

Anyway, back to the feminist lens: Helen Mirren is great fun in it, and really is the only woman in the story with much going for her at all – poor old Guinevere and Lancelot have a forest romp and wake up with Excalibur (or A Sword, at any rate) lying on the grass between them. OMINOUSLY.

Anyway, I’m a sucker for Arthurian swords and sorcery nonsense, but, on the best evidence, had always assumed film versions of the legends I love were s**t. However, having read this review, I might now check it out – whilst keeping the part of my brain that absorbs messages about gender switched firmly OFF.

This is an entirely valid point. And the theme song counts double.

EVUREH TAH-OWWN

HAS ITS UPS ANNNND DOW-UHNNNS

etc :D

I will always have a spot in my heart for NAWT IN NAWTEENGHA-YAM but I have to put Robin of Sherwood in the lead. Sorry.

I love the Disney, but Michael Praed forever!