![]() ![]() “That’s how evil tricks you,” we’re told. The wicked Morgana endeavors to use the young friends’ physical, moral and ethical weaknesses against them (to make their hearts “grow hollow”). The new knights of the round (coffee) table pledge to live by a chivalric code, a set of rules that Merlin states all knights once lived by: And those qualities change them for the better. They laugh at and chide him at first, but they eventually come to see Alex for the consistent, good and trustworthy leader he is. In that spirit, Alex works diligently get his human bullies, Lance and Kaye, to join him in his fight against a coming evil. In fact, a reborn version of Merlin the magician reiterates this fact to Alex, saying, “The most worthwhile path is seldom the easiest.” And it’s hers for the taking … as is the rest of the world once she accomplishes that fell feat.įor all of its broad fantasy ways, the one thing this film and its hero get serious about is the fact that honor and goodness take work. Morgana can feel it, as life and magic begin surging through her once more.Įxcalibur is free and sheathed in something called a backpack. A mystical weapon called Excalibur, her key to destroying all mankind.įar, far above her, someone has finally pulled that weapon free. She would wrest herself from the deep, raise up an army of undead knights and reacquire a certain sword. But on that fabled eve centuries before, the terrible sorceress vowed one day to rise again and reclaim what was rightfully hers. Morgana, half-sister of King Arthur and the fiercest magical foe of a wizard named Merlin, was long ago banished from the world of man in defeat. And when her eyes spring open you would know you were right. To look at its vine-covered form, you might say it looks human. The sound heard in this musky morass is more of a gasp, as a creature’s head snaps upright. It’ll make for a good story the next time he sees Bedders.īut deep in the primeval blackness of a subterranean pit some miles beneath the Earth’s crust, there is no laughter. So as Alex jams the sword through the bottom of his backpack and takes it home, he can’t help but laugh. And … pulls it free of its bonds.Īlex knows the old thing is just a piece of junk somebody hammered into the concrete block on a lark. So he steps up, braces himself, gazes into the night sky and gives the old relic a heave-ho. But he’s always been a kid who appreciates grand fantasy. I know what you’re thinking: “It can’t be that sword in the stone.” And that’s exactly what Alex thinks too. And it’s stuck in a large chunk of a broken concrete column. This nicked and battered weapon of silver and steel looks ancient. ![]() Alex will charge in and do whatever he can to fend off schoolmates like Lance and his female sidekick in thuggery, Kaye.īut one night after being chased into a construction site by those two bullies, Alex finds something quite curious: a sword. He always has to keep a protective eye out for his best bud, Bedders, for instance, who just happens to be an even easier-looking target than he is. That’s not to say Alex won’t try to stand up for himself and others. And that’s pretty much exactly what bullies do whenever Alex and his friends cross their paths. In fact, to your average bully this kid looks to be an easy pushover. Alexander Elliot certainly doesn’t look like a hero. ![]()
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