Merlin is an epic story of the legendary merlin set in the knights of the round table era. I believe that the movie is great and I have no idea how Merlin has a 6.7 rating when 'The 10th Kingdom' has an 8.1, 'The 10th Kingdom' was completely terrible in every way. Directing 7/10:Merlin is directed by Steve Barron (I believe its his best work) and I think he did an amazing job with the materials he had. Plot 8/10: The plot is good for people who like fantasy movies. I thought there was nothing wrong with the story at all.

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Not one of the best plots but still great. Acting 7.5/10: The acting in this movie has nothing left to be desired. Sam Neill is amazing as the lead role of merlin. Many other great performances are also in this movie. Art Direction 7/10: All of the costumes and sets in this movie are good, nothing great but for a made for t.v.

Movie one of the best. Score 9/10: The music in this movie by Trevor Jones is AMAZING!

One of my favorite parts of the movie. Special Effects 7.5/10(for its time 9/10): This movie even now doesn't look very old.

Find Arthur & Merlin subtitles by selecting the correct language for your Movie release. Can't find your subtitle? Then update the Live Sub Crawler or try a couple. Merlin is a television miniseries which originally aired in Merlin on NBC that retells the legend of King Arthur from the perspective of the wizard Merlin. Find Arthur & Merlin subtitles by selecting the correct language for your Movie release. Can't find your subtitle? Then update the Live Sub Crawler or try a couple.

The cgi is extremely good for its time. The only time that the graphics really look bad is the scene with the dragon, all the other times it is great, and subtle. The same digital effects compositor as 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.' Please don't complain about the special effects in this movie when no one complains about the effects in 'The 10th Kingdom' which had SOME OF THE WORST SPECIAL EFFECTS I HAVE EVER SEEN! 'The 10th Kingdom' was also made in 2000 not 1988!!! Overall 9/10: My favorite t.v.

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Merlin is a television miniseries released in 1998 that retells the legend of from, starring in the title role, Miranda Richardson as the antagonist Queen Mab, Martin Short as her henchman Frik and as Morgan le Fay. The story covers not only the rise and fall of Camelot, but the phase in the legendary history in Britain that precedes it. Unlike the traditional version where he suffers from, Merlin stays active throughout the entire reign of King Arthur, with some details altered to fit the story more from his point of view. The series is also influenced by other /European legends and folklore. It introduces Queen Mab, a fairy first attested in, as the leader of and the of the Arthurian legend who manipulates traditional villains Morgan le Fay and Mordred.

Other magical creatures like gnomes, griffins and even a talking mountain appear. The series was followed by a novelization in the form of a trilogy in 1999. In 2006 it received a sequel, Merlin's Apprentice, which had less to do with traditional Arthurian legend, had some and was not as popular as the first movie. The, besides the source material. Tropes:.: Excalibur.

So sharp that just parrying a regular sword will cut the lesser weapon in two, which makes you wonder what Mordred's axe was made of/how heavily enchanted it was. According to the novelization, the axe was a form of the black sword Caliban, an that Mab helped Mordred retrieve, which shapeshifted to become a weapon more suitable to Mordred's desires and is an Absurdly Sharp Axe.: Vortigern has a small chuckle after Merlin encourages him not to worry about lacking patience when the king possesses so few other virtues.: Several scenes were deleted for the VHS version. Among them, a description of the workings of magic. This makes it difficult to understand Frik's later comment about Merlin never progressing past being a Hand Wizard. (In case you were wondering, the first level is magic via incantation, the second level is magic via hand gesture, and the third level is magic via thought alone.). Back in for the DVD, thankfully.: The few references to Queen Mab in English literature make her out as a benevolent fairy queen.

Here, she's a dark pagan goddess (the counterpart of the good pagan goddess the Lady of the Lake).: It's a bit hard not to feel for Queen Mab as she fades from existence along with the last of the world's magic and the Old Ways, crying out for Merlin and Frik to look at her, rasping that she loves Merlin as a son while her voice grows increasingly thin and hoarse. Morgan le Fay as well. Sure, she seduced Arthur and concieved, but she had been grievously wronged by Merlin and Uther, and really was just a lonely, miserable girl underneath it all.: The novelizations. One big one that isn't explained on-screen is that the version of the story Merlin tells doesn't have Mab in it (which is what Frik is commenting on at the end).: Morgan le Fay is entirely motivated by getting herself closer to the throne.: The setting is closer to the period of the late Roman Empire than most adaptations of the legend, with Iron Age costumes, armor and weapons. However, the terms 'knight' and 'Sir' are still used. The setting is called 'England' too early, as the term came into being after the were established as the dominant power in the British Isles instead of the Britons or Celts (now the Welsh). The Saxons are here only stated to be recent arrivals.

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Normandy is also mentioned as the place where Uther gathers his armies against Vortigern. The area gained this name only after year 911, when the Viking Chieftain Rollo was granted the lands to protect them from the rest of the marauding Norsemen. That could just be, though. Almost all of the place names should really be different, and they wouldn't be speaking modern English with American accents either.

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Or an Antipodean accent, as in the case of Sam Neill. Some of Frik's disguises seem to reflect the future; for example, his dashing swashbuckler-character wears 18th-century clothes and wields a smallsword (yes, a smallsword, not 'a small sword') that isn't going to be invented in centuries. But then, Mab does mention that the fairykind sometimes see into the future.