High Crusade,the: Amazon.ca: John Rhys-Davies, Rick Overton, Michael Des Barres, Catherine Punch, Patrick Brymer, Debbie Lee Carrington, Rinaldo Talamonti, Frank Kanakusen, Tahareh Becker, Ray Cokes, Holger Neuh�user, Werner Baum, Klaus Knoesel, Roland Emmerich, Thomas W�bke, Ute Emmerich, J�rgen Egger, Poul Anderson, Robert G. Brown: DVD

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In a castle somewhere in England on the eve of the crusades, all good English knights are preparing to march on Jerusalem. Out of the heavens, an alien spaceship descends, an entry hatch opens, and a scouting party from another planet emerges, gathering information for a potential march on Earth. Unimpressed by the alien's high-tech weapons, the knights storm the spaceship. With arrogance (and dumb luck) on their side, they soon gain possession of the vessel and a hostage who can fly the thing! Of course, there is only one thing to do - fly it to the Holy Land and use it to put the fear of God into the heathens! But they are not destined to reach Jerusalem - as soon as he's back in his spaceship, their hostage switches the automatic pilot to return home. In two days, the bumbling, arrogant and ignorant crusaders will be at the mercy of an entire alien planet...heaven help the aliens! ohn Rhys-Davies, Rick Overton

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3.0 out of 5 stars A fun movie, April 18 2007

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Greg Slade "Grga" (Vancouver, Canada) - See all my reviews

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Where Poul Anderson's original novel had a nice subtle humour (so subtle, in fact, that a number of readers never got that it *was* humour), this movie is nearly slapstick. Simply by the nature of the budget, it would not have been possible to film the story as Anderson originally wrote it, as that would have entailed a Cecil B. DeMille-style "cast of thousands." Still, if you can control your disappointment at what they have done to poor Anderson's wonderful book, it's a fun movie in its own right.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Oh dear! Where's the Dubbing?, April 30 2004

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Krazyman (UK) - See all my reviews

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I've got a dubbed version of this on video quite a few year when it was on T.V. which is absolutely excellent, I live in England and can't get The High Crusade on DVD over here. So I got the U.S. version, all I can say is it's terrible. In the british version, all the aliens were dubbed with hilarious English accents and didn't sound like dodgy Jawa's out of Star Wars.

All I've got to say is, watch the English dubbed version if you get the chance. It's a completely different movie...

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not the book, and its not Monty Python, Jan 6 2003

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James McCarty (Hilliard, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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I was disappointed that this was not an adaption of the very funny Poul Anderson book. Other that a credit to him and the fact that the story involves knights and aliens, there is scant relationship between the book and the movie.

This movie is more akin to Benny Hill than Monty Python. Very low brow and broad.

That said, the movie was mildly amusing. Not worth buying unless you find it in a cut-out bin.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't watch this unless someone will pay you (a lot)
I gave it a try because I loved the book and because one of the actors was in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films. My gosh! What trash. Not funny. Read more

Published on Oct 4 2002 by George Michaels