A Knight's Tale [Blu-ray] by Brian Helgeland, starring Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany, Alan Tudyk: DVDNear.com

A Knight's Tale [Blu-ray]

A Knight's Tale [Blu-ray]
by Brian Helgeland

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Actor: Alan Tudyk, Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Paul Bettany, Rufus Sewell
Director: Brian Helgeland
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-19
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Columbia Pictures

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Movie Review: Charming and very funny
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie has gradually become one of my favorites over the years. A very few years ago it did a several month stretch on the movie channels when it seemed to be on several times a week. It wasn't unusual during that period for my wife and I to catch it every couple of weeks or so.

Heath Ledger is perfect as the squire masquerading as a knight, and Rufus Sewell portrays a villain with an unexpected depth of character.

Many parts are just as funny to me every time I watch it (in many ways like a lot of scenes in Tootsie).

The film is very unique in that it consistently breaks with the 'period', yet seems to portray it in a believable way anyhow. I think the reason for this is that the anachronisms serve to involve us in the events in the same way behavior of the time would have drawn those living several hundred years ago ... but we wouldn't fully understand or appreciate those same behaviors now. So the modern behaviors help to involve us in the same way that those of the period might have felt. That sounded convoluted as I wrote it, I hope people get it. LOL The film is also a beautiful piece of cinematography if you see it well presented. This is a movie that I first saw on cable, many times (and before we had HD). I have since bought it twice. Once to see the original wide-screen format, and again on Blu-ray.

If you are not really stuck up and stiff about the movies you watch, and have a sense of humor AT ALL, you will enjoy this film in at least a lesser measure, and likely a greater measure.

The Blu ray presentation is gorgeous. Visually, the heart of the movie are the jousting scenes, with beautiful horses and gleaming armor. The Blu ray doesn't disappoint, looking far better than even the HD presentation on movie channels.

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XANDER CAGE IS AN EXTREME SPORTS ATHELETE RECRUITED BY THE GOVERNMENT ON A SPECIAL MISSION.

There's no rule against rock anthems from the 1970s in the soundtrack for a movie about a medieval jousting champion, but if you're going to attempt such jarring anachronisms, you'd better establish acceptable ground rules. Writer-director Brian Helgeland does precisely that in A Knight's Tale and pulls off this trick with such giddy aplomb that you can't help but play along. (Upon witnessing a crowd of peasants at a jousting match, singing and clapping to the beat of Queen's "We Will Rock You," you're either going to love this movie or dismiss it altogether.) Other vintage rock hits will follow, but Helgeland--the Oscar?-winning cowriter of L.A. Confidential--handles this ploy with judicious goodwill, in what is an otherwise honest period piece about a peasant named William (Heath Ledger) who rises by grit and determination to the hallowed status of knighthood.

As if the soundtrack weren't audacious enough, Helgeland (recovering from the sour experience of his directorial debut, Payback) casts none other than Geoffrey Chaucer (wonderfully played by Paul Bettany) as William's cohort and match announcer, along with William's pals Roland (Mark Addy) and Wat (Alan Tudyk), and feisty blacksmith Kate (Laura Fraser). Of course there must be a fair maiden, and she is Jocelyn (newcomer Shannyn Sossamon), with whom William falls in love while battling the nefarious Count Adhemar (Rufus Sewell) on the European jousting circuit. Add to this an inspiring father-son reunion, Ledger's undeniable charisma, a perfect supporting cast, and enough joyful energy to rejuvenate the film's formulaic plot, and A Knight's Tale becomes that most pleasant of movie surprises--an unlikely winner that rises up, like its hero, to exceed all expectations. --Jeff Shannon

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