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| Movies,
Graham Bower,
02:00:00,
01 October 2001 |
Rating: F4
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I’ll confess to feeling uneasy at the start of this one. Medieval jousting to the sounds of Queen’s “We will rock you,” was a little too reminiscent of the unpleasant experience of sitting through Moulin Rouge. Period drama mixed with contemporary pop music is the cinematic equivalent of stripes and plaid – they just don’t go together.
Loosely based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, A Knights Tale is the story of a handsome you commoner who pretends to be a knight – handsomeness ably supplied by teen heartthrob Heath Ledger. And like Ledger’s previous cinematic outing, Ten Things I Hate About You, this movie is an traditional tale told in a modern idiom. Exactly what period it’s set in isn’t clear however. Sexy love interest Shannyn Sossamon looks more like a spice girl than a maiden, the knights use motor oil as lubrication (for their armour, stupid!) and at one point you can make out the London Eye about ye olde cityscape.
The humour in A Knights Tale is simplistic in the extreme. But unlike many other simplistic humorist, this is actually funny in a dumb kind of way. If you’re in a particularly mindless mood, you might even find yourself rooting for the hero and cheering at the feel good end.
UK rating:
PG
US rating:
PG-13
Brian Helgeland
Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Mark Addy, Laura Fraser, Paul Bettany
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