...and The Kid Who Would Be King works consistently well. As with Attack The Block, Joe Cornish delivers a deft mix of the mundane and the fantastic, here mixing Arthurian legend and the life of a twelve-year-old schoolboy who (oddly) stumbles across Excalibur and pulls it from the stone on a local building site, thus setting him and three young allies on a journey to save Britain from the imminent resurrection of Morgana (a beautifully psychotic Rebecca Ferguson) from her underworld banishment. Dialogue is well-written, the four child leads are very strong, effects work is good, and the rousing score adds much to the film. Perfectly pitched for its young audience, this film is a thoughtful, lively and very well-delivered movie that is unusually ambitious and effective for a British children's film.
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