Given a proper Game Of Thrones/The Lord Of The Rings high-fantasy treatment visually but delivered with a light, snarky and fleet-footed approach, this long-gestating iteration of the fantasy RPG quickly hits and maintains an entertaining tone that clearly struck a chord with cinemagoers. The script is never too far from a delightfully silly line of dialogue or reaction, delivered knowingly by Chris Pine as the roguish Edgin, the ever-reliable Michelle Rodriguez as his partner/straight-person Holga and a very arch Hugh Grant in full pantomime villain mode as the smarmy Lord Forge, from whom Pine is trying to retrieve his daughter. The visual scale and richness of the film keeps it the right side of parody (more The Princess Bride than Your Highness!, thankfully), making it an expensively silly but entertaining enough romp overall. Look out for the mid-credits scene that echoes Airplane! in addressing an earlier joke.
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