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Black Knight

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Synopsis

In this reworking of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee, Lawrence plays a theme park employee who finds himself thrust back in time to England in the year 1328.

Review

What seems like the umpteenth film version of Mark Twain's classic story "A Connecticut Yankee" now has the affable Lawrence as the unwilling time traveler who journeys to 14th-century England to find romance and adventure. A basic interpretation that has a few laughs but lacks inspiration, Black Knight's updating has Lawrence as a theme-park employee who falls in a castle moat only to awaken in the past. Having a black actor play the part opens the door -- or in this case portcullis -- for a few additional jokes, but the screenplay doesn't go very far in exploiting a 21st-century attitude (Whoopi Goldberg's TV version the same year was able to do exactly that). And after all, it is the anachronistic spirit that makes or breaks Twain's comic tale.

--David Bleiler

Product Format Information

DVD : $9.99

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Close Caption: Yes
Region Code: 1
UPC: 024543039884

Studio : Fox

Languages: English Dolby Digital 5.1 (Primary) , English Dolby Digital Surround , French Dolby Digital Surround , Spanish Dolby Digital Surround , English Subtitles , Spanish Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic 1.85
Extras: 3 Deleted Scenes
Features:
Audio commentary: Director Gil Junger; Scene Specific Commentary with Martin Lawrence
Outtakes; Stunt Scenes; Choreography by Paula Abdul; Costumes; Storyboard-to-Scenes; Construction of Sets