Alan Tudyk is a gem! There's a scene that I love from a doc about the voice acting on Moana. Cuts to Tudyk doing chicken sounds (he played the chicken), when he slyly looks into the camera and says "I went to Julliard".
That movie has perfect casting. Everyone in it is exactly right for their parts. There is a B movie feel that I can't quite put my finger on but it is an outright excellent film, one of my personal favorites.
Well, that'll piss some folks off I think. I actually appreciate things like the crowd at the opening joust rocking out to We Will Rock You. The banquet dance scene is better executed; they start out with the old time dance and then fade into modern club dancing, as if to say "Here's what's actually taking place" versus "Here's how the characters feel about it in terms a modern audience can understand."
I think I'm more talking about how a lot of the sets look like styrofoam? Especially castle interiors or other masonry? There's just something very 80's Gragthar The Destroyer about it.
It's true. The cocky rival who cheats, the training montages, the win despite all odds... It has every trope of the genre with a medieval set dressing.
Why dont they do this with more genres? Like I want a musician biopic movie ala Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman about a couple bards in England in the dark ages, and it is just Simon and Garfunkel doing Simon and Garfunkel songs on lyres and flutes completely anachronistically. Not satirically. Completely earnestly and yet fun.