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An astronaut and his robot friend end up going back in time and find themselves locked up at the court of King Arthur. Helped by modern technology, the Knights of the Round Table are now about to stop Merlin and Mrordred overthrowing the king in spectacular stlye.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Just reading the list of clebs in the film is impressive. Stars from the past such as Jim Dale (Mordred), Ron Moody (Merlin) and Kenneth More (King Arthur). The film itself well concidering this was made way before the first ever space shuttle Disney didn't get it far wrong. As for mixing history with our time it was very funny seeing them from King Arthurs day seeing an astronaut for first time including space helmet. I have to put my hands up BIG FAN of King Arthur and the stories of Camelot and the Knights of the round table and they don't stray too far from the stories we all know. This film has a slight love story too which helps the story flow. What also is funny is Dennis Dugan plays two roles as he plays the android a double of the astronaut who falls in love with a young girl who thinks her father is a goose under a spell from Merlin. This is a very pleasant family film for everyone. Me being a sci-fi fan I wasn't disappointed watched it many times.
If you want a film to compliment this one look at Whoopi Goldberg in another Disney film 'A Knight In Camelot'
If you want a film to compliment this one look at Whoopi Goldberg in another Disney film 'A Knight In Camelot'
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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If The Spaceman and King Arthur aka Unidentified Flying Oddball merited an entry in The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it would doubtless read 'mostly harmless.' The kind of family special effects comedy that Disney continued to push out to diminishing returns long after Uncle Walt left the building and audiences lost interest, this umpteenth reworking of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur doesn't have many jokes and even fewer of them are any good, but the film's so good-natured and relentlessly eager to please that you can't really hold it against it. Denis Dugan is the NASA scientist who finds himself accidentally shot into space in an experimental spacecraft alongside his robot double and ends up going back in time to King Arthur's court where he crosses swords with Jim Dale's evil Sir Mordred (in Disney's final attempt to turn him into a US star) and Ron Moody's Merlin, for once on the side of the villains. Nothing terribly imaginative or amusing happens, but it passes the time pleasantly enough, Ron Goodwin's score revisiting the odd motif from his earlier score for Sword of Lancelot, Paul Beeson's photography throwing up a couple of pretty images, and Kenneth More ending his movie career with his dignity intact as King Arthur, displaying some nice chemistry with John Le Mesurier's vague Sir Gawain even if it's no valedictory performance.
No extras on the DVD, which uses the film's American title, Unidentified Flying Oddball, but a decent widescreen transfer.
No extras on the DVD, which uses the film's American title, Unidentified Flying Oddball, but a decent widescreen transfer.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I previously knew this film as "A Spaceman in the Court of King Arthur".
Nasa had intended to send out a spaceship with a robot on board.The designer accidently was on board when the ship took off. Instead of going into space it went back in time the time of King Arthur. He and the robot foil a plot to overthrow Arthur, both fall in love with a peasant girl.
It is a light, pleasant film, which I enjoyed.
Nasa had intended to send out a spaceship with a robot on board.The designer accidently was on board when the ship took off. Instead of going into space it went back in time the time of King Arthur. He and the robot foil a plot to overthrow Arthur, both fall in love with a peasant girl.
It is a light, pleasant film, which I enjoyed.
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A film by another name
Like other reviewers, this is a film with which I have been familiar for many years under the title "The Spaceman and King Arthur". Read more
Published 18 days ago by Nostalgia
Great family film
This is a great family comedy. Loved by all my children, and very watchable by adults too. An alternative to watching pixar films!
Published 16 months ago by newreviewer
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