Quest for Camelot

"Share the adventure, laughter and song in a land where magic was born and where wizards, knights and dragons still live."

1998 1h 26m EN

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6.8

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43%

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METACRITIC

⭐

6.3

IMDB

★6.8TMDB · 875🥫43%Rotten Tomatoes●50Metacritic★6.3IMDB · 19,902

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Synopsis

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During the times of King Arthur, Kayley is a brave girl who dreams of following her late father as a Knight of the Round Table. The evil Ruber wants to invade Camelot and take the throne of King Arthur, and Kayley has to stop him.

“Share the adventure, laughter and song in a land where magic was born and where wizards, knights and dragons still live.”

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Cast

Jessalyn Gilsig
Kayley (voice)
Andrea Corr
Kayley (singing voice)
Cary Elwes
Garrett (voice)
Bryan White
Garrett (singing voice)
Gary Oldman
Ruber (voice)
Eric Idle
Devon (voice)
Don Rickles
Cornwall (voice)
Jane Seymour
Juliana (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Frederik Du Chau
Writers: William Schifrin, David Seidler, Jacqueline Feather
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

RUNTIME

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86 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Earned back only 96% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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3 / 8

ERA

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28 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Patrick Doyle. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Stanford C. Allen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Jessalyn Gilsig and Andrea Corr and Cary Elwes carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Share the adventure, laughter and song in a land where magic was born and where wizards, knights and dragons still live.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0120800 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Frederik Du Chau directs. Patrick Doyle scores. Stanford C. Allen cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

186 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Earned back only 96% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
328 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4Original score by Patrick Doyle. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Stanford C. Allen shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Jessalyn Gilsig and Andrea Corr and Cary Elwes carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Share the adventure, laughter and song in a land where magic was born and where wizards, knights and dragons still live.".
8IMDB entry: tt0120800 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 8 themes, including "based on novel or book", "sword", "villain", "camelot".
10Released under 16 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Original score: Patrick Doyle
Editing: Stanford C. Allen
Production design: Steve Pilcher
Sound: Christopher Boyes
Runtime: 86 min · 1h 26m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $40,000,000
Box office: $38,210,798
Return: 96% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): G
IMDB: Quest for Camelot (1998)
Rotten Tomatoes: 43% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 50/100
IMDB rating: 6.3/10 · 19,902 votes
MPAA: G

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 win & 6 nominations total

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Kamurai2020-07-18
★ 4/10
Empty watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend. This movie is a good example of Warner Bros' desperate desire to be like Disney instead of doing their own thing when it comes to animation. It even looks like they lifted a character directly out of "Alice in Wonderland", and maybe there was a legal loophole they had , but it was really unnecessary. Honestly, most of the premise is a lot of nonsense, and I don't mean to dash dreams and lose the fancy of imaginative creation, but it's not even just fun. They took one of the few popular free stories (King Arthur) that Disney hadn't monopolized ("Sword in the Stone" only covers Arthur as a child, and this is after Camelot was realized), and then added so much magical guff to it that it was hardly recognizable as a version of the original story. This is not a "King Arthur and his Knights" story, it's a Kayley, and you don't know who that is because they made her up. Even Cary Elwes (Princess Bride: The Man in Black), by far the best actor / character in the movie, seems to have impatient disdain for having to perform the role, and he's probably the 3rd most occurring character. A knight that Arthur never would have made a knight, that the audience doesn't know, traitors the crown (when Lancelot did it, it was impactful) and kills a knight, that the audience doesn't know or care about, so the main character is launch into adventure on a basis that the audience objectively doesn't care about, and that adventure is further preluded with a Griffon dropping Excaliber into a cursed wood (which would have normally been represented by Merlin and/or the Woad), and having some magic would be fine, but they basically rip off the "Fire Swamp" from "Princess Bride" and add in all these questionably real people with weapons for hands. Everything I just wrote sounds insane, and that's without the guide being blind or there being a 2-headed dragon that hates itselves. I'm tired, and you should skip this unless you just have to see the train wreck.

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