Carry On Leonidas
Like a Robert Mapplethorpe Exhibition with moving pictures, Zach Snyder of comic-to-Movie Watchmen uses the SFX of comic-to-Movie Sin City to recreate the Graphic Novel by Frank Miller of comic-to-Movie The Spirit.
Best Historical Drama Ever since Up Pompeii.
The Story:
A naked boy kills a giant skinny black wolf, becomes a Scotsman who leads Sparta, married to a frightfully Englishwoman, with lots of American and rural counties friends. Fights Persians and ninjas. Dies in a style just like the end of Gladiator. Without the tractor tracks in the cornfields.
The Good:
Giant Man God King Xerxes who is a cross between the transvestite in The Crying Game and Vin Diesel in The Chronicles of Riddick.
Battle elephants like in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Battle rhinoceros like battle polar bear in The Golden Compass.
Slo-mo fight scenes: all bloody and all close-up.
Metrosexual –ahem- buff and tanned bodies all shot like the photography guy was colour-blind.
The Bad:
Giant skinny black wolf is not as good as skinny yank werewolf with a thing for Jenny Agutter from The Railway Children in An American Werewolf In London.
Too many story parts got in the way of all the lovely violent slo-mo fight scenes.
The Verdict:
About 22 Pigs. Even the boring bits were only about 9 minutes total of the running time.
