A Kid in King Arthur's Court

Saddled with a script full of lifeless, mock-clever ideas (such as having the local blacksmith make a pair of Rollerblades), Gottlieb can only do his best to mollify his audience with a few fleeting hints of the movie's untapped potential. Read full review

Sluggish and low-energy. Read full review

Rarely do the well-financed wizards at Walt Disney Pictures cook up a movie this badly written, acted, and directed. Read full review

There's nothing particularly wrong with A Kid in King Arthur's Court and nothing right with it, either. Parents will take their kids to see it and suffer, but the pain is mild. Read full review

It is difficult to decide what is more annoying. The complete lack of execution in this film, (despite the presence of some very talented actors), or the realization that these lame screenwriters were so devoid of original ideas, they resorted to picking at the carcass of a tale that has been done and redone to death. [11 Aug 1995, p.28]

There are simply not enough sparks here to fire the imagination. Read full review