Wizards of the Lost Kingdom

Go immediately and rent this movie. It will be be on a bottom shelf in your local video store and will be covered in dust. No one will have touched it in years. It may even be a $.50 special! It's worth ten bucks, I swear! Buy it! There aren't very many films than can compare with this - the celluloid version of that goo that forms at the bottom of a trash can after a few years. Yes, I gave it a '1,' but it really deserves much lower. 1-10 scales were not designed with stuff like this in mind.

Think of this film as a Saturday morning live-action program from ages ago. Even the small tykes will find this one hard to please because it runs like molasses! I can't fully understand how god awful it is to make something too typical and uninteresting, especially in the costume department! Too many warrior-wizard movies out there have used the same old plotline numerous times over, but this is mighty scarce considering its appeal to the little darlings. And who in the world would've let a topless mermaid be cast in the first place? I thought this was a "family" movie! MST3K, here's another fine gem for your 1999 TV season!

Someone watched a lot of fantasy movies and thought: Hey I can do that. Well I would argue, no you can't. No offense to whoever did this. Maybe there was interference maybe other influences ... whatever the case, this is quite the hot mess (or cold mess if you prefer that).

There is I guess a Chewbacca style character that is just ... I mean I guess you can view him as cute too. If you watched this as a kid ... who am I to say what you should feel about this? But Production values and everything cries ... in agony and pain. Even the actors it seems struggle ... then again maybe this has nothing to do with the movie but with their "talent". I'm not going to suggest anything.

Still believe it or not, I have seen worse movies. This can have some moments that are sort of fun (and I'm not talking about the not very well aged Special effects or in camera tricks) ... nothing one has to have seen ... unless they are as crazy as me I guess

It's not a good thing when the first thing you notice in a movie is the bad costume design. It's not just the spangles on everything, like Wigstock gone mid-budget, it's someone who's clearly the Wookie -- he looks to be about seven feet tall and wears a costume made from freshly washed, white poodle fur, who is usually shot at crotch level. Well, I suppose there were all those costumes from THE BIRD CAGE just lying around....

Anyway, story. Yes. Wizard Thom Christopher in a darling spangled hat kills the old king and takes over the castle and, presumably the kingdom, if he could find it. The old king's son, Vidal Peterson is a wizard, but not a very good one. He hooks up with wandering warrior Bo Svenson and the aforementioned fake Wookie, and they go on a series of poorly designed, low-level D&D encounters in their quest to get the magic ring. What magic ring? Shut up, he explained.

Along the way, there's a lot of sets from Dollar Store's Post-Christmas. sale There are also bat puppets, computer effects designed on a Sinclair ZX80, and lots of people in spangly hats. This was the year Bo Svenson joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Coincidence?

I saw this movie by accident when it was on TV a few years ago... immediately it became a cult movie for me and my friends.

I've seen this movie about 500 times (i'm serious), and the bad special effects, bad acting, bad story, never gets old.

All i have to say is, it's so bad that it's good.