Prince Valiant 1997

I took a slight detour on my MCU catch up when I was asked by my friend Todd over at the Forgotten Filmcast to guest on another episode and his suggestion for a forgotten film to cover was the 1954 Prince Valiant movie as it was based on comic strip. While I initially excluded movies based on comic strips, I later decided to include serialized comic strips that tell a continuous story and still exclude comics that are all essentially stand-alone comedic strips, but I still haven’t fully dug into what that all entails. But Prince Valiant as a comic strip is the longest running continuous story comic strips which started in 1937 and is still running in a half page format today which is over 4,600 comics! Anyway back to the movie, when I actually went to watch the movie I found and watched the 1997 version of Prince Valiant thinking it was the version that he suggested. The day after watching it, I realized my mistake, but I thought the movie was crazy enough to warrant me talking about it so he graciously shifted to allow us to discuss this movie instead of the 1954 version. This movie has an interesting cast with several well known names and character actors, it did go to some bizarre places especially in the second half and it felt like it was trying to be a comedy but lean into it, which if IMDb trivia is to be believed, that’s because the studio took charge of the editing without the director and tried to make it less comedic. I can’t sit here and say that this was a great movie, but it was a lot of fun.