I found it quite pleasant after getting into its tongue-in-cheek groove. As a piece of comic fantasy it seems to fit well alongside Discworld. It won't be recommended by me simply because it has little bite. It's a sweet morsel. A decision to dispense with dinner and eat a store-bought themed cake instead. A slightly sickly indulgence but enjoyable at the time.
Nostalgia burst for 80s folk choosing films from a video store, after nothing else much appeals.
First two episode where ...so so,.but after that, every episode kept getting better and better and its actually pretty good
OMG... 5 minutes and I was out...
Ok... I kinda liked the movie back then... too long ago really. Surprised that there is a sequel "series". Nice to see original cast reprising roles though. Gonna check it out, not really expecting much though.
Review by Mike ShawVIP EP 2BlockedParent2023-01-12T05:58:46Z— updated 2023-03-13T03:45:41Z
Disney disappoints again. What starts out as vaguely interesting quickly descends into a feckless morass of lazy writing, dispassionate production design, and pedestrian directing. At multiple points the show clearly can't decide who its audience is- or if it even cares. Is it camp YA fare that should be on Freeform or The CW? Is it high fantasy? Is it a comedy? A drama? In the end it doesn't do any of these things well. (When a couple of characters show up in a medieval forest wearing denim jackets you know that the people making the show really had no idea what they were trying to do.) The story choices & dialogue were so awful that I don't think that it's fair to pass judgement on the cast's acting. They all seem capable enough, but it's hard to tell if they were giving cringe-worthy performances because that's what they had to work with, or if they just stink. For what it's worth, I tend to think that it's the former. There are a few nice moments and a couple of interesting set pieces. For instance, the montage in Episode 7 & parts of the final battle in Episode 8 look great. I even respect the choice to incorporate modern music where they did; it's a big swing that mostly works, IMO. Unfortunately, the overall lack of respect for both the IP and the audience that is evident throughout just caused those glimpses of quality to make me angry. Why couldn't they have put that much effort into the whole thing?