Marcwolf-2

One of the main differences between US and UK humor is that UK humor can be funny on multiple levels. A line can be said, with inflections. The kids giggle because they like the fun, the adults giggle because they get an entirely different joke. With the US humor - it is reduced to the lowest common denominator and still requires a laugh track so the audience knows when to laugh. In essence - UK humor is a fine soup and US humor is akin to gruel. That being said - Galavant is a laugh. There are so many levels of fun, the singing, the dancing, the little sarcasms. Sadly they don't break the 4th wall as they did in Jeffery. I can understand that our US cousins would be uncomfortable. They are jests about everything, irrepressible tongue in cheek humor, and some subjects that would make the more.. tender souls clutch their crucifixes and pray. For the UK viewer it is a feast - one that we have not seen since the PG brigade stormed the BBC and burned the Monty Python and the Goodies scripts. Having giggled and chortled my way through season 1, I am now eagerly watching season 2. Please - UK folk who have been brought up on To the Manor Born, The Good Life, Yes Minister - give this a watch. You will not be disappointed

We all have to suspend belief when alternate history is the subject, and it's often a fun intellectual curiosity. Like what would America be like of JFK did not die. Or that Hitler has not been born. Or the great library of Alexandria survived. These are all key crossroads in our history that forever altered the future. In this case it is current day historians looking back at The Great Martian War. The Martians have landed in Germany in 1913 and the world mobilizes to fight them. Archival footage of that time is used and CGI seamlessly spliced in to give it an authenticated look and feel of that time. Various experts talk and show their displays - all with the reverence that real artifacts of that time deserve. Even veteran's of that time tell of their experiences. Various viewpoints are offered on different arguments, and prospects for the future. All in all what one would expect from a detailed and well crafted documentary. Except. It never happened :)

OK.. I may be a bit bias but please read my reasons.

This is a homage to the practical creature effects. Nearly $400,000 was raised by the Kickstarter campaign, to which ADI added their own skills and expertise. Mose of the actors are not well known except for Lance, and he gave his skills for free to keep costs down.

That being said - we have a movie that did not have the multi million backing of big studios. On what would have been a shoestring budget. Locations would have been limited, and the number sets reduced too.

Is it a good movie - for what it sets out to achieve then Yes.. There is NO CGI here, all the effects are real and touchable, the slime is cold and slippery, and the blood would be.. well at blood temp.

To compare it against the recent "The Thing" which had a budget of #38mill, and this which was about $2mil max then what they have done is great.

So enjoy a good creepy movie - but accept that a lot of this was a labor of love :)