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Mood:
- HumorousFeel GoodWittyExciting
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Plot:
- Corrupted RulerCriminal HeroesFolk HeroFighting the SystemInjusticeRighting the WrongedEscapadesHeroes more...
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Genres:
- AdventureComedyParodyPeriod
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Time/Period:
- Middle Ages
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Place:
- EnglandIn the Woods
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Audience:
- Family OutingTeens
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Humor:
- FarceGrossout HumorSlapstickIrreverent HumorSilly HumorDry Humor
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- Twists and Turns
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Based on:
- Based on Folk Tale
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- Not SeriousSemi Fantastic
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Flag:
- Profanity
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights, 1993
English
France, USA
Profile of Robin Hood: Men in Tights
The mood of Robin Hood: Men in Tights is humorous, witty, and feel good. The plot centers around corrupt rulers, a folk hero, and righting wrongs. It features slapstick humor and grossout humor. Robin Hood: Men in Tights is a comedy, adventure, and parody movie. Stylistically, it involves twists and turns. In approach, it is not serious. Robin Hood: Men in Tights takes place, at least partly, in the woods. The setting is England. It happens in the middle ages. Robin Hood: Men in Tights is drawn from a folktale. It is especially suggested for a family outing and teens. Note that it includes profanity.
Summary of Robin Hood: Men in Tights
A parody of the much-done medieval English tale of Robin Hood and his Merry Men, ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS also directly lampoons the politically correct ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES, which starred the hearthrob of the time, the very un-British Kevin Costner. English hearthrob Cary Elwes gets a turn in the role of the hero of Sherwood Forest who robs from the rich to give to the poor when he returns from the Crusades to find his beloved King Richard (Patrick Stewart in an amazing Sean Connery imitation) usurped by the evil Prince John (Richard Lewis) and his henchman, the Sheriff of Rottingham (Roger Rees). In typical Brooks fashion there is much satire, some gross jokes, a dash of screwball farce, and a Jewish spin put on gentile characters: Hence, Friar Tuck is transformed into Rabbi Tuckman (Mel Brooks), who is eager to perform circumcisions on the dim-witted Robin Hood and his Merry Men. Tracey Ullmann further livens up the ensemble as the witchlike cook Latrine. Those familiar with other Brooks films will also note moments parodying some of the director's own past spoofs, including HIGH ANXIETY and BLAZING SADDLES.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | France, USA |
| Release date: | 28 July 1993 |
| Runtime: | 104 min |
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as Robin Hood
as Latrine
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- 20.March.2011
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- by: Fluffymonkeyem
- Fluffymonkeyem rated this movie
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- 19.January.2011
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- by: sunray616
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