The 10th Kingdom

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Summary: Very good, holds my nephews attention span!!
Review: I thought the movie was very good & a different take on the fairy tale formula. It was slow in the begining but once it got going it got going. I did like that they did show the other side to fairy tales & what couldve happened after the "Happily Ever After", the original grimm fairy tales were very violent and served as a warning for children, so they did keep a darker side instead of ignoring it. The Trolls were annoying after a while with there 3 stooges slapstick. Some complain about the contemporary themes but then again, they story is about two people from Now going into a "Fairy Kingdom" so u expect some modern themes to come thru.
I watched this DVD with my niece and nephew and they love it...they like the fact that it is modern and isnt a boring fairy tale to them, its holds there very short attention spans and not too many movies can do that. I liked it, enjoyed it and its a good way to escape on a rainy/snowy day.

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Summary: FROM THE UTTERLY MORONIC TO BRUTALLY VIOLENT !
Review: Warning: This movie is definitely not appropriate for children! As an adult fantasy/sci-fi buff, I'm at a loss to what anyone else would like about this film.

I can simply sum up my feelings by one pivitol event where a single man commits a brutal act of mass murder to three generations of an entire family. Here we are graphically shown the murder by magical bow & arrow of every man, women and child totaling over a dozen people. What warranted their death sentence? The crime of poaching! Who were these people? A caravan of Rom, better known as Gypsies. Forget the racist stereotypes for a moment. Here's a group of people whose only crime is trying to survive in a rather hostile environment. Sure their ethics are far from perfect. But did we need to view an act of mass murder to make a point? Seeing an entire family, including a child, brutally murdered is not my idea of a good time!

To add insult to injury, this mass murderer is also a kidnapper and it doesn't take much immagination to conclude, a rapist to boot!

I'm very disappointed Hallmark would lend its name to such trash! What does this teach our children? I guess it's a reflection of the sheer ugliness that exists in American society!

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Summary: bad ratings? no way.
Review: I remember being so excited to see The Tenth Kingdom when in first premiered in 2002. I've always been partial to fantasy, fairy tales and adventure and when I saw the previews The Tenth Kingdom appeared to be all of that. I would sit glued to the television for two hours every night that it was on. It is a wonderful story that pulls you in and can entertain for hours and is great even on repeated viewings. Don't be put off by the length, time will fly by and it presents the opportunity to go into a characters background, subplots and misadventures. The people that populate the Nine Kingdoms are some offer some of the best parts of the movie.

John Larroquette is hilarious but offers touching (for lack of a better word) acting near the end. Kimberly Williams is convincing as the emotionally hurt but resillient main character. Scott Cohen is everybody's favorite character as the lovable Wolf. All of the characters are complex and three dimensional, even the evil Queen isn't black and white.

I have not seen many children's movies that could also pass as an adult adventure. Many movies that claim to be for everyone in the family offer not-so-subtle innuendo and graphic situations or language. But this truly is for everyone. I've watched it with my younger siblings many times and then had my own friends come together to watch it. We all love it. If you love fantasy, you'll love this. If you don't you probably still will love it as there's plenty for everyone. "Suck an elf" has made it's way into the venacular of our world.

Minor 'gripes' (heh). The trolls. Their goofy physical comedy isn't so funny. They get annoying at times but it's nothing big.

The effects are cool, kind of. This IS a TV movie so it's not like I was expecting The Matrix of mini-series but they tend to look a little weird some times.

The DVD quality is great, with about the amount and quality of special features that you'd expect for a made-for-TV movie. Nothing to write home about but this is a huge step up from the taped VHS version I had. I caught it the second time around when they trimmed about two hours out of it and I had forgotten about some of the parts. It was good to discover them again.

Don't expect "High Art" as one reviewer put it. This isn't a masterpiece of film and/or television and it wasn't meant to be. This is meant to be fun and entertaining and it acheives those goals wonderfully.



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Summary: 10th Kingdom Is a Fairy Tale For Adults
Review: The movie is truly enrapturing with vivid stories lines that capture the mind and scenery that captures the eye, with a lovely undertone that captures the heart.

Virginia (Kimberly Williams) and her father Tony (John Larroquette) are a simple pair, living in a shabby apartment building in which Tony is the primary, and only, janitor/maintenance bub. Years prior, Virginia's mother went missing and her father still will not discuss the specifics of the night she dissapeared.

However, time has passed and both have, at least apparently, moved on. The story truly begins when Virginia meets up with Prince Wendell. In dog form. In Central Park. After a whirlwind of activities, it is established that the dog is Prince Wendell. Prince Wendell is the soon-to-be crowned King of the 4th Kingdom. The 4th Kingdom is another dimension in which Fantasy is reality and reality is what you make of it.

The story progresses with the trio accidentally ending up in the 4th Kingdom, Wendel trying to reestablish his throne, and the father-daughter pair attempting to make it back home. With the help of a two-faced wolf-man (Scott Cohen) --who, with the help of Dr. Phil type self help books, finds the man within the wolf within the man, and ends up falling in love with our heroine-- the group resolves mysteries, learns histories, and solves fairy tale stories.

It is an enchanting tale for the adult.

Rating:
Summary: hmm...
Review: 2 years ago, I remember renting this from one of my video stores in town, & loving it, but now, I just like it, The positives are Wolf is funny, & its a long movie, & the singing ring is one of the funniest things in a long tim from a film, but the negatives are bad acting, cheesey jokes, and stuff like that, ignore the immature kids trying to act, & the occasional annoying troll kids, & jokes, & you will get a pretty good 6 and 1/2 hour movie!

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Summary: All I Can Say Is WOW!
Review: I caught the last part of this movie on tv, but liked what I saw. It's a GREAT! movie. Combining a fantsy world with the real world, and the magic that can happen. The scenes are just beautiful! I was told this was a first in a series, so I cant wait until I find the nest one. Dont pass over this movie!

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Summary: Enchanting actress but dreary kingdom
Review: The 10th Kingdom is a very unique and interesting idea and gives a unique approach to the fairy tales of our childhood. Unfortunately, the slow-paced plot, terrible acting, and over-the-top directing doom this miniseries. Too many opportunities to explore the stories of Grimm brothers are passed up so the viewer can instead listen to the four main characters whine and complain about each other and their lot in life, not that you'll blame them since you can hardly stand them yourself.

Kimberly Williams, (Father of the Bride, Life According to Jim) as Virginia, is the only bright spot of this ten-hour bore. Her spunky pluck and charisma carry the movie through the by-the-numbers plot and plodding dialogue. Virginia's father, Tony, played by John Larroquette (The John Larroquette Show) is a pathetic, money-loving, dolt of a father who is constantly looking for short cuts through life. The audience knows how and why his plans are going to fail long before they do. Joining them is Prince Wendell, but wait! Prince Wendell is a dog voiced by Daniel Lapaine (Brokedown Palace, Helen of Troy) who also plays as a dog masquerading as the prince. Neither performance is adequate even though the prince is the merely the formulaic, soon-to-be-king, spoiled brat figure. But the worst of the worst is Scott Cohen (Private Parts) as Wolf. He is a were-wolf type character who is so over-the-top annoying that the viewers are left cringing whenever he dominates a scene, which he gets to do a lot since he's either talking to himself alone or trying to win Virginia's heart by waxing poetically, or so he thinks. These monologues, I think, exist to provide conflict and create suspense, or maybe they are the comic relief. They do neither, which is why you've probably never heard of Scott Cohen since.

The villains, the Evil Queen (that's what they call her!), her huntsman and Acorn the dwarf are all played capably enough by Dianne West, Rutger Hauer, and Warwick Davis respectively. Only the huntsman really succeeds though as a villain worth fearing and is the only complex character of the movie as even in the end you hold out hope for his redemption. Ed O'Neill (Married With Children) as the Troll King, Relish, is merely Al Bundy with a violent streak put in and any sense of humor removed.

The sets are pretty good, creative and unique, and each setting does a good job of adding some depth to story but in the end the fairy tales, which are only alluded to vaguely in the main story-line, are always keep tantalizingly out of sight and reach or the viewer. What could have been a great story is reduced to a drawn out tale of angst with four underdogs trying to stop the stereotypical evil queen from ruling the magical land you don't get to see enough of. The first two hours take place mainly in New York City for heaven sakes! In the end most viewers will be left wondering why it took ten hours to tell this tale when it probably could have been done in a little over three. Best unintentional comedy? The open ending that shows that the producers wanted to make a sequel! Oh the horror!

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Summary: The 10th Kingdom ... * * * * *
Review: They usually present this serie around Christmas. This year they didn't so I had to bought it to see it once more !

Rating:
Summary: um...that was...interesting?
Review: Suck An Elf! We were watching this movie in homeroom one time, but that was because my homeroom teacher is insane. I personally do not think that this movie is appropriate for any age, because it has stuff like magic and goblins etc. that little kids would like more, but theres something rather sexual about this movie, and sometimes they say some things that gave me friends and i a pretty good laugh, but considering we have a very perverted sense of humour, i do not think that is a good thing.