Reviewed by Mike Belfance

There are some movies that, no matter how many times you re-watch them, still manage to keep you entertained completely from start to finish. For me, one of them is "The Knights of Camelot" by Thomas Saville. Not only does it feature some of the best comedic timing in any 3dmm movie I can think of, but it's also has some of the best characters ever to come out of the 3dmm community (the constantly depressed and perfectly voiced "Sir Bugger" comes immediately to mind). Problems are few and far between here, this has to be my favorite movie of 2004 as of yet. A great example of just how entertaining this movie is, just now I went to check out if I got the name of the director right by watching the opening credits, I ended up watching most of the first half of the movie.

The storyline follows a knight named Flod, who with his friend Jimmy (a crazy midget) and ex-chef to the king, Sir Bugger (best...character...ever) goes out on a quest to find the treasure of Camelot. While the storyline is good enough to hold the movie together and give it a sense of purpose, the director focused much more heavily on character development here. Every character is interesting in their own way. What helps this is the fact that the voice acting in this movie is incredible. Each voice matches the character flawlessly. Seriously, all of these guys I would nominate for best voice actor this year- especially the guy who plays Sir Bugger. All of his lines are delivered in a dead-pan monotone voice that ALWAYS manages to crack me up! Who knew that lines as simple as "Oh...this is SOOoo depressing..." could make for a laugh out loud moment? This is a perfect example of how much good voice acting can add to a movie.

As far as animation goes, it's kinda half-and-half. While the character animations and facial expressions are great (besides the fact that their legs occasionally disappear) the hand made scenes can be kind of sparsely detailed every now and then. For the most part it was all good, and it was never bad enough to be distracting...except near the end. There's a scene that was supposed to be a stream going through a valley, but it was so obviously just a couple blue rectangles on top of a tent that it was impossible to take seriously. Of course this scene is approximately .5% of the movie, and I should also mention that it's the only problem that really merits actually being brought up in a review. I have to say again how great the animation for the characters was though. The facial expressions really made it, they were always perfect and completely believable- and getting emotion out of a couple of spheres and a "V" shape is no easy task.

What I really loved about this movie was the comedy, which surprised me, since normally "British humour" doesn't appeal to me at all. I laughed out loud in this movie as much (if not more) than I do in an average "Simpsons" episode! The timing for the jokes is just perfect. Most of the great jokes are lines from a certain character I kept bringing up in the opening of my review, but almost every character, even the throw- away ones, seem to get at least one great joke. The whole thing is done so professionally and the comedy is pulled off so expertly, you feel like you should be watching this on TV or in a movie theatre instead of on your monitor.

Well, I've pretty much run out of ways to praise this movie, so I'll just wrap this up. Knights of Camelot is possibly the best comedy to ever be made on 3dmm. It has the best voice acting, the best characters, and some of the best animated facial expressions of anything out there in the comedy genre- and in 3dmm in general. This is one of my all-time favorite movies, here's hoping the director actually manages to make a sequel some day. I mentioned a couple problems, but I still feel like this movie deserves a 100%, crappy blue rectangle-and-tent hand made scene and disappearing legs aside. NOW HURRY UP ON THE NEXT ONE!

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