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Hoping to travel back in time to right an accidental slaying, a 12th-century knight and his bumbling squire are instead sent 900 years into the future. Once they get their 20th-century bearings, they set out to reclaim their castle (now a luxury hotel) and to figure out how to return to their own era. |
The French have never been particularly prone to sequelitis, but Jean-Marie Poiré succumbed on this occasion and made a pretty fair job of re-creating both the madcap comedy and commercial success of the original. Opening with a neat illuminated manuscript reprise, the action darts back and forth through time, as 12th-century knight Jean Reno returns to the future to avert a curse on his forthcoming marriage. Just as Reno doubles up as a long-lost playboy, so Christian Clavier alternates between playing his mischievous vassal and a prissy estate manager, beset by wolves and the inquisition. Patchy, but energetically played and gleefully anarchic.
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Halliwell's Film Guide
Broad farce that will appeal to lovers of Carry On films.