Robin Hood
by John Irvin
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Actor: Barry Stanton, Conrad Asquith, Danny Webb, Owen Teale, Patrick BerginDirector: John Irvin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Robin Hood
Movie Review: Fair. Not the best Robin Hood movie, but fair.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is not the best Robin Hood, but it's better than the Costner version.
If you read a reviewer telling you it was just clean fun, don't buy it (what the reviewer says; the movie purchase is up to you). There's a lot of of innuendo in it, a little ribaldry, and so-on. There is one scene of indecency. The violence is above the mild level, but not by too much.
While historically informed (iffy on the accurate)and (generally) well-performed, it (excluding that hideous Costner version) is probably the least true to the Ballads of the Robin Hoods. It prefers to pick the later legends (we're talking English Renaissance [15th-16th century]) of Robin Hood, which depict him as wronged nobility. It also makes the Saxon-Norman conflict the primary, instead of tertiary or quaternary, theme. There is little issue of race in the original ballads. In this vein, it is much more like _Ivanhoe_.
If you prefer something completely clean, fairly historically accurate, and generally true to the ballads, I recommend the Errol Flynn and Richard Todd versions. If you prefer something even truer to the ballads, I recommend, severally, the Green, Pyle, and Finnemore (my personal favourite) prose renditions. And, if you're desperate, you can actually find the ballads pretty easily, especially online.
Summary of Robin Hood
The Swashbuckling legend of Robin Hood unfolds in the 12th century when the mighty Normans ruled England with an iron fist.Film buffs may remember the tangled tale of competing Robin Hood projects in 1991. Kevin Costner, riding high from his Oscar wins for Dances with Wolves, had his pick of projects at the time, and he juggled his interest in parallel Hood films that were under development at different studios. Costner chose Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, of course, directed by his friend Kevin Reynolds, while the other production (the one described here), attached to veteran British director John Irvin (The Dogs of War), ended up on cable television with another Yank, Patrick Bergin, in the lead. Comparisons were inevitable, even though the two films were very different from one another. A little harder edged and more surprising than Reynolds's work, the Irvin-Bergin movie made all that medieval heroism seem more an effort of the heart than previous versions. Roughing things up a bit is Uma Thurman as a bratty Maid Marion, not quite the traditional damsel in distress of yesteryear. Irvin keeps the adventure quotient up, but this is simply a darker, grittier variation on the old tale. With J?rgen Prochnow, Jeroen Krabb?, and Conrad Asquith. --Tom Keogh
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