An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit, and a goofy two-headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot from disaster.An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit, and a goofy two-headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot from disaster.An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit, and a goofy two-headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot from disaster.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 6 nominations total
Jessalyn Gilsig
- Kayley
- (voice)
Cary Elwes
- Garrett
- (voice)
Andrea Corr
- Kayley
- (singing voice)
Bryan White
- Garrett
- (singing voice)
Gary Oldman
- Ruber
- (voice)
Don Rickles
- Cornwall
- (voice)
Jane Seymour
- Juliana
- (voice)
Céline Dion
- Juliana
- (singing voice)
- (as Celine Dion)
Pierce Brosnan
- King Arthur
- (voice)
Steve Perry
- King Arthur
- (singing voice)
Bronson Pinchot
- Griffin
- (voice)
Jaleel White
- Bladebeak
- (voice)
Gabriel Byrne
- Lionel
- (voice)
John Gielgud
- Merlin
- (voice)
- (as Sir John Gielgud)
Frank Welker
- Ayden
- (voice)
Sarah Rayne
- Young Kayley
- (voice)
Al Roker
- Additional Voices
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBill Kroyer, the original director of this movie, intended to make a darker movie, more faithful in tone to the original book. Following the phenomenal successes of the movies of the Disney Renaissance, Warner Brothers, among many other studios, moved into feature animation, hoping to replicate similar successes with their own animated movies. At Warner Brothers' behest, Kroyer's vision for this movie was rejected, in favor of a more Disney animated musical movie-style, and the movie was put into production before the story was even finalized. The complex plot and dark nature of the novel, The King's Damousel, were replaced with several animation trademarks of the 1990s-era: musical numbers, a strong female heroine, a power hungry antagonist who wants to usurp the kingdom, a romantic subplot where the couple lives happily ever after, talking animal sidekicks, and family-friendly comedy gags.
- GoofsWhen Devon and Cornwall make shadow puppets on the wall, Garrett (who is supposedly blind), looks at the shadow puppets on the wall.
- Crazy creditsOn the On Demand print, during the closing credits, the offer for the movie's soundtrack on CD & Cassette, that is seen before the movie begins, plays again.
- Alternate versionsIn the version released on Netflix and YouTube, the Warner Bros. Family Entertainment logo is plastered by the Warner Bros. Television logo.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Troldspejlet: Episode #19.6 (1998)
- SoundtracksUnited We Stand
Written by Carole Bayer Sager and David Foster
Produced by David Foster and Carole Bayer Sager
Performed by Steve Perry
Courtesy of Columbia Records
Featured review
Arthurian Waste of Time and Talent
The wonderful, classic legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table has never been properly handled as a feature film. Even "Excalibur" seemed forced, and perhaps the only truly enjoyable features have been gentle comedies like Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" and of course "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" which throw the technical mythology out the window and try to make what's left fun. Eric Idle starred in that latter entry, and he stars here, as one-half of a fairly well-animated, somewhat badly-designed, talking dragon. With Don Rickles' help he becomes a comic sidekick, but the script doesn't let either of them be all that funny, and the animation mixes the beautiful and awful with a disturbing shot-to-shot tickertape rhythm. About 1/4th of the animators here don't seem to know how to animate convincingly, and those who do have to struggle not to let the movie fall down around them. But the animation is still the best part of this woefully misconceived hybrid of randomly-scattered Camelot legend and F-grade science fiction. The science-fiction takes over, sadly. Consider the red-armored, action figure of a villain (played by Gary Oldman, in yet another bad career move). I can't decide if he's Riffraff from Rocky Horror, or Ade Edmonson from the Young Ones. It matters little. Caring not for the great legend sitting right under their feet, the umpteen writers turn out sub-Disney drivel about robots, walking trees, a laughable CGI version of the rock monster from the "Never-Ending Story," and a talking chicken with a hatchet for a beak. Lovely. I'm sure Sir Thomas Malory wanted to put these elements in his "Morte D'Arthur," he simply wasn't clever enough to think of them, right? Who needs Lancelot and Galahad when you've got Lionel and Bladebeak? And does anyone really want Celine Dion Eurovision Song Contest-esque material sprinkled in every few minutes? Supposedly sung by the "characters" of what story there is, but they rarely move their lips to it, so the work is not particularly convincing. An all-star cast is wasted (Sir John Gielgud, for chrissake!), as is the time of anyone watching this confused "Black Cauldron"-esque collage of scenes from other movies. The design looks like Don Bluth traced by Wang, and the entire enterprise made me slightly ill. What a waste of talent. I want to hurt this movie.
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- TygerBug
- Apr 10, 1999
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- Countries of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- La leyenda de Camelot
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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- Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $22,510,798
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,041,602
- May 17, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $22,510,798
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1(original & negative ratio)
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