Knight Jamal - A black comedy

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Movie
German title Knight Jamal - A black comedy
Original title Black Knight
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Gil Young
script Peter Gaulke
Darryl Quarles
Gerry Swallow
production Michael Green
Arnon Milchan
Darryl Quarles
Paul Schiff
music Randy Edelman
camera Ueli Steiger
cut Michael R. Miller
occupation

Knight Jamal - A Black Knight (Original title: Black Knight ) is an American comedy film directed by Gil Junge from 2001. The film freely treats the story A Yankee at the court of King Arthur by Mark Twain .

action

Jamal Walker is the guardian of the theme park "Medieval World", which is dedicated to the Middle Ages . The park has to assert itself against the competition from "Castle World".

Walker finds an old medallion and is transferred to England in 1328. At first he thinks he has come to the competition park and marveled at the apparently "realistic replicas" there until he realizes the real facts. The locals believe that he is a Moor from Normandy who came to the king's court as an ambassador. He is introduced to the king as "Sir Skywalker" and soon becomes his security advisor.

Walker finds out that the king deposed the former queen. In the old knight Knolte, who suffers from an alcohol problem, he finds a friend with whom he fights against the evil king. He decides to bring the Queen back to power and finally appears as the "Black Knight".

In the meantime the sheriff seizes power and hurls the king into the moat. There is a duel between Jamal and the sheriff, which Jamal wins thanks to Knolte's help. The Queen knighted Jamal, who returned to 2001 during the ceremony. Dream or not, Jamal still owns the locket.

Jamal gives the owner of "Medieval World" new ideas and shortly afterwards the bankrupt amusement park becomes a popular amusement park where children can play and run around. Jamal is pleased to find his love from the Middle Ages in a modern woman. When Jamal follows her and wants her phone number from her, he falls into the moat of "Medieval World" and wakes up again in the Coliseum of ancient Rome, where the lions are turned on him. In the last scene, Jamal runs away from the animals screaming.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films described Ritter Jamal - A Black Comedy as “[e] benso lust- like unimportant clothes”, in which one can hardly recognize the novel by Mark Twain . "Even the closest comedy is given away in favor of a simple plot scheme." Kevin Thomas wrote in the Los Angeles Times (November 21, 2001) that the comedy was "loaded with energy" and "tailored to Martin Lawrence." The director, the scriptwriters, and Lawrence did their best to make the result look quick and easy.

According to Br-online, the result was a “lame film” and a “time travel adventure that might have turned on in the 80s”. Moreover, only the moderately talented ensemble seems to be surprised by the “foreseeable [e] […] plot”, for the viewer it is “banal”. In addition, the question arises, "what should be black about the cheap castle moat story".

Awards

The comedy was nominated for the Golden Reel Award in the category Best Sound Editing in 2002.

Others

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Knight Jamal - A black comedy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Film review by Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times
  3. ↑ Knight Jamal - A Black Comedy on br-online ( Memento from November 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )