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Join Sir Boris ("the finest swordsman in the world") and his brother Sir Morris ("not the finest swordsman in the world but the most enthusiastic!") on their big adventures, ably assisted by their noble pets, Sir Horace the dog and Sir Doris the hamster (who does nothing but eat anything and everything in its path and belch loudly. "She's not stupid", opines Sir Morris, "she's just got a short attention span").
The animated adventures of The Big Knights are the creation of Neville Astley and Mark Baker, who seem to have been more influenced by Monty Python and the Holy Grail than usual children's TV fare. This is all to the good, as each 10-minute adventure contains enough meaty humour to keep adults roaring heartily alongside their offspring. These stories are full of incidental characters and wicked throwaway lines (the witch forced to make vegetable soup sighs, "You can't get the children these days"; the Welsh troll called "Eeuurgh"; the TV weatherman who announces, "Good news for central and southern Borovia where it will be cold and wet with dragons expected all week"). The eponymous knights are voiced with boundless energy by thespians David Rintoul and Brian Blessed, who deliver every line with loud, declamatory gusto. Comedienne Morwenna Banks crops up in supporting roles, memorably as Mrs Ethel Minion, the knights' long-suffering servant, while composer Peter Baikie supports the derring-do with a mock-heroic fanfare that's bound to have the whole family cheering them along.
Gleefully pitted against evil imps, witches and anything else that stands in their way, several of the clumsy knights' escapades have a Pythonesque sprinkling of pathos. In "Sir Morris and the Beanstalk", for example, the knights unwittingly play giants to a race of tiny people who are subject to the calamitous attentions of Sir Doris (in a neat Godzilla cameo). "Well, do you still believe in the old stories now?" asks one of the little people, when they have lost everything to the giant knights who yet remain entirely ignorant of the havoc they have caused. "Maybe not the bit that goes 'And they all lived happily ever after'" is the weary reply. --Mark Walker
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Far too good to be kept for the kids!,
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This review is from: Big Knights - The Big Adventures [VHS] (VHS Tape)
The action packed adventures of 2 utterly ludicrous knights, with voices provided by most of your favourite actors.If other kids videos drive you mad buy this instead...
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's fab!,
This review is from: Big Knights - The Big Adventures [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Even after repeated viewing it's still funny! The animation is charming, fresh and different from the usual kids-stuff. The actors are well-chosen and the script is hilarious! A great series whose broadcast was hidden away in the schedules over one Christmas. I just wish there was another series and that it was available on DVD.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great stories, great characters, brilliantly entertaining.,
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This review is from: Big Knights - The Big Adventures [VHS] (VHS Tape)
My six year old son, wife and I repeatedly get this video from our local library. The stories are very entertaining and funny with some excellent characterisation. The animation style is highly original and overall the whole concept: execution, scripts, voice overs, music,etc is great fun on several levels. These are good stories for parents and kids to watch together. In our household, daily conversations are liberally embellished with references to the Big Knights and their style of speach. This is something that has not happened since my own school days when Monty Python ruled the waves. We cant wait for further episodes to be made.
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