Great Film overall

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Like most people here, i got this movie from the wal-mart bin. I thought it couldn't be that bad. Boy was i wrong! This movie is MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATRE 3,000 worthy. It starts off with two elf dudes running from the Red Cap. Both die after being hit with the cap's weapons. These deaths don't foreshadow anything else. These are the only deaths in the movie.The plot line is of a typical one. Loner boy gets picked on my bullies, meets a strange man, and discovers a whole new world where he is accepted. Nothing new here. If you listen to the commentary, the director says himself that the costumes were put together. And it shows. A lot. The audio is off kilter too. It shows a lot like at the part where max's father goes woah. The audio is either a little late or early(I'm not sure). In some cases the audio is so crude it becomes like a godzilla film.The movie is not all lost. The clothes and looks of max and his class mates make them look like they should have been in the SMASHING PUMPKINS' 1979 music video. And thats awesome. Also, the make-up. The make-up is actually pretty good. The best is on the red cap and lord dagda. Speaking of characters, whats up with TOM TIT TOT? Whats sad is that if you look at the making of bonus feature, everyone takes this movie seriously. Little did they know that instead of making a fantasy, they were actually making a comedy. Did they really think that this would become an American classic? If this was in theatres, it prob. would make a couple thousand.Overall, if you're looking for a good laugh, watch this movie. From the characters, dialog pauses, and an annoying mouse, this movie is funny.

Seriously, calling this bit of tape "cinema", "a film", or "a movie" is to do those who tread the boards and wield movie cameras for a living a disservice. Be warned before you watch this movie that it literally took over THREE DAYS to make it through. I had never before realized how stilted dialog could be, nor how bad editing could be, nor how insipidly bad "actors" could be...again I shouldn't be calling them actors because that is doing those who act a disservice.This movie could have been a full half it's running time shorter if the "editor" had simply culled the two to three second gaps between lines from the poorly dubbed dialog out along with the useless frames of the actors saying something completely different.This movie renews my faith in true cinematography, because I had assumed that the worst movie I'd ever seen, "Blood Rayne", was the worst a movie could be... however, by comparison, "Blood Rayne" should have won an academy award!The best idea that I have seen thus far for this movie is to watch it with a group of friends...and take a drink every time there is a pause in dialog due to bad editing or every time a mouse giggles.The person still alive by this line: "I can fly...I can fly...*thump*" wins!

Max Magician is a very good kids film. It has mythical creatures, heroic kids (and adults), excellent fantasy combat (no blood), and other things that make it great for kids. (Adults will find it amusing as well.) It shows that being brave and standing up for what you think is right will make a difference - even if you are a kid.The lead good-guys are all kids who do an excellent job acting. This will appeal to kids who watch it and who can identify with the actors.I highly recommend it as a very good kids fantasy film.PS: A bit of trivia: for those who are familiar with the Maryland Renaissance Festival, a lot of the scenes (including the village and combat scenes) were filmed there.Priestwood

Like just about everyone who got this flick, I found it in the Wal-Mart bargain bin, stuck near the bottom with to several copies Howard the Duck. I'm a sucker for a cheap bad movie, so I got it on a whim. I was expecting cheese, I got some really smelly Limburger.Opening with the two low rent Rennisance Festival Fugitive Elves (with lots of shots of their sneakers cleverly disguised in gunny sacks) running through the forest. Ugly Axe Guy is in pursuit, and throws a long handled battle axe into the back of the RFFE carrying a scroll. RFFE number two picks up the scroll and runs once again. Ugly Axe Guy decides to deal with Number Two with his flail, throwing it with the grace and technical skill of a William Shatner fight scene.Shatner naturally comes to mind when I see this movie. When Ugly Axe Guy pulls his axe out of the back of the dead Elf, We see that the highly abused elves in this scene happen to have GREEN BLOOD. So, does that mean we're on Vulcan? Elf Number Two is now crawling, apparently he couldn't get his leg untangled from the flail that is loosely wrapped about his foot. He shambles to a conveniently placed door (in the middle of an otherwise uninhabited forest according to the numerous tracking shots in the opening) quickly, Elf Number Two tosses the scroll through the door as Evil Axe Guy brings his might axe down and mercifully leaves the movie for the next 45 minutes.Then we see the scroll "magically" appearing in a flurry of cheap digital sparkles at the feet of an old gardener who looks sorta like old Obi Wan Kenobi. He picks up the scroll and starts reading, and a young girl's voice-over tells about the ongoing struggle with the UnSeelies in the BlueBell forest and how things look bleak and grim at the moment and how it would be a good time to bring that savior here and all. All the while the scene is cut with pointless closeups of a mouse and a hawk. You expect the hawk is going to swoop down and eat the mouse, and seeing how the mouse starts talking and won't shut up later in the movie, I so desperately wished that was the case. The voice over ends with "Help us, you're our only hope" at which point Sorta Kenobi looks up to the sky and we fade out.Then things quit making sense....Seeing how the past few paragraphs represent the first five minutes of this flick, I can tell you it just goes downhill from this point. From the introduction of the villain Dagda (he looks sorta like Tim Curry as Darkness from "Legend" but acts like Tim Curry as Frankenfurter from "Rocky Horror Picture Show") to the big showdown between good and evil (evil being armed with foam rubber hammers) this movie is nothing but a slow, agonizing, descent into cinematic masochism. If it wasn't for the presence of multiple friends to help riff on this movie, there is no way I could sit through it. After showing this, I've had friends refuse to never again let me pick movies for us to watch. This movie is pain, watch it at your discretion.