Thursday, October 25, 2007

Strangeheart (2003)

This is a hard movie to get hold of! Finally got it though. If you love pubs or live in Dallas or are Scottish or English this is a must-see, of course, but if you revel in intentionally bad filmmaking or just incredibly lame spoofs of Braveheart, you're a smaller demographic but that'll do too. Basically this is Braveheart with a touch of A Knight's Tale, filmed in some park with a pack of 200 self-admitted "sexually deviant alcoholics." Note the staggered shifts in lighting and focus -- and beardedness of the lead character. The anachronisms and song-and-dance numbers make it jolly. The deleted scenes and outtakes are actually the most intelligent parts of the film, don't miss them. Strangeheart is not likely to catch on like the Rocky Horror Picture Show or even Hardware Wars, but any film that doesn't take itself seriously has something to hoot about and this one fills the bill. 2.5 stars.

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