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This Disney classic King Arthur origin story was very entertaining, but didn’t really have a plot (or anything much to do with a sword in a stone, for that matter). The whole film was little more than a series of lessons where Merlin turned Arthur into an animal and didn’t really teach him anything that I could see. It lacked a tension arc and any kind of build-up. Yet, the minimal characters seemed oddly fleshed-out, and I loved the meta aspect of Merlin’s knowledge of the future. I also liked the toned-down, child friendly violence. Nobody ever gets truly hurt or killed.
The drawings were beautiful to look at, with lovely mat watercolours and great animations. I miss this basic but expressive drawing style, and the hand-drawn aspect of it adds subtle detail that a computer misses.
An entertaining film sure to fascinate kids just as much now as it must have back then. 3/5
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