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Galavant is extremely silly--but at least it knows it’s silly.
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Galavant is a musical spoof of knight-in-shining-armor stories that is slight, unoriginal, and uneven, but that can be amusing and diverting nonetheless.
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At times it feels enough that the players seem to be enjoying themselves to enjoy it alongside them.
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Half the jokes are inspired; half the jokes hit the floor.
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Self-indulgent but packed with great cameos and kitschy production numbers, the whole affair could have been a tight 90 minutes. Instead it's flamboyantly self-referential and clocks in at four hours.
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I wish Galavant were a movie. I found the show charming and festive and impressively committed, but in half-hour chunks, there's very little room to build the kind of momentum the series needs.
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This is, without question, the oddest show to arrive on television in quite some time. ... [But] unlike the best musicals and fairy tales, it never once transports you to a land far, far away.
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The show offers an excess of mildly clever yet sincere goofiness. It’s as if someone set out to make a Spamalot for an audience that can’t quite grok Python, would find Into the Woods too morose and maybe missed half the pop-culture references in the Shrek movies.
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Despite some amusing bits and clever songs, it’s only occasionally as much fun as it ought to be.
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The series does try to develop its characters, but Galavant never quite finds a way to ideally pull together its gonzo comedic spirit and musical aspirations.
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Nothing about Galavant is quite as good as it needs to be — or nearly as good as the multiple spoofs it seems to be copying, in part because it never seems to be quite sure about what exactly it's spoofing.
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It's all got the stirrings of something that should be funny, or wants to be funny, except that it's too often not - confoundedly, relentlessly, insistently not. [3 Jan 2015]
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It comes off as way too broad to be witty, and too raunchy to be a comfortable fit for family viewing.
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Just being incredibly good-natured isn’t quite enough to create a show you’d want to watch every week.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 97 out of 127
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Mixed: 11 out of 127
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Negative: 19 out of 127
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