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80What ensues is never exactly unpredictable, but always witty, fresh and fun.
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80Savvy without being smug, cute without being saccharin, and funny without slipping into over-the-top goofiness, this is a 14th-century good time.
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80Smart, wry and awesome, all at once.
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At best harmless, if not quite fun.
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75It's a reminder of the days before films got so cynical and unrelentingly violent. A Knight's Tale is whimsical, silly and romantic.
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75With its cheerful hailstorm of anachronisms and classic-rock soundtrack, there's nothing medieval about it.
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75More often than not, it's fun.
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75A Knight's Tale, will either repel you or win you over. It won me over.
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There's much to love about this "Rocky" on horseback, and those laughable blemishes just fold into jokes that Helgeland likely intends audiences to laugh at.
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38The result is as flat as a year-old beer commercial.
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80Actually lighter, wittier, and more original than it has a right to be.
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75Though the picture is definitely flawed, it maintains a joie de vivre that's surprisingly refreshing.
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58Laddish, one joke, genre scrambling rock & roll fairy tale.
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25The film's one saving grace is Ledger (Mel Gibson's son in "The Patriot").
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70It's a dumb summer movie done with smarts.
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70Simply a jolly good (k)night out.
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70The action scenes are beautifully mounted and photographed and offer a sense of the rigors of the sport.
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60The picture itself is good-humored, but bland and predictable. It's a cross between an All-American vaudevillian version of "Shakespeare in Love" and Mel Brooks's "Robin Hood: Men in Tights."
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60Would be sweeter if the fair maiden weren't such a pill and more exciting if the villain weren't quite so nasty.
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50For all its hipness, the movie serves up some awfully old chestnuts.
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50As advertised, A Knight's Tale does try to rock you. The problem is, it doesn't rock you nearly enough.
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40Works neither as an exuberant rock 'n' roll picture nor as a heroic fable. It will rock you --straight to sleep.
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30Traditionalists and older viewers in general will scoff, while pop culture addicts will no doubt go with the flow.
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20The skits are dreadful, the jokes suck.
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63Fine family entertainment.
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63A bewildering but never boring yarn.
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50From the moment he trudges through the woods in his scratched and smudged birthday suit, Paul Bettany as a saucy Geoffrey Chaucer takes command.
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25A Middle Ages "Rocky" that spares no cliche in its unduly long, 2 1/4 hours.
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50This brazen mix of old and new is undermined by the predictable story, shallow characterizations and a dopey sense of humor.
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70A Knight's Tale wasn't made for people like me. It was made for the kids of summer.
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60The result is half Python, half Ivanhoe--and not as much fun as either.
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40Maybe you have to be 14 to find all of this terribly clever.
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not excellent, but perfect and very hilarious
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