Les Aventures de Robin des Bois

Oh, silly me, I thought until now that the scene with Robin Hood and his camp band of merry men in the first Shrek was a parody. It wasn’t. It was just true to its creepily gung ho predecessor. The day is saved, luckily by Basil Rathbone and Claude Raines who are great as usual and not gung ho in the least. Which otherwise, I think, may be said only of the horses (even though they did neigh rather merrily). (27/04/2010)

Although it may seem at present that instead of being funny or dramatic, the film is simply cute or naive, when it comes to action, there is great editing, not to mention that the choreography of the action scenes is still excellent. The film has aged a bit, but the color still suits it, and the story is simply timeless because legends like that just exist. (20/08/2014)

A classic Hollywood fairytale where good spanks evil’s bottom and each scene and their choreography are brimming with energy and movement. It goes by really fast, the visuals are crisp and gorgeous, the hero is a proper man and not even the clumsy sequencing of the shots and the helplessness of the villains are much of a problem. If the world was drawn up according to stories like this, it would be better. 85% (15/03/2020)

Glorious Technicolor. That's all that matters. :) Fairbanks’ Robin Hood from 1922 needed major updating in the late 1930s, so Errol Flynn stepped in and it was all done. Still, Una O'Connor is the best actress, leaving all those classics by Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains far behind in the dust. (28/07/2015)