- In London, during medieval times, there was a large stone with a heavy sword imbedded in it. The man who could pull the sword from the stone would become king of England, but no man, despite his strength, was able to complete the deed. However, when a young lad named Wart appears, he just might be able to pull off the impossible. Thisic Disney feature, based on the children’s book by T.H.
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DESCRIPTION: Humor, spectacle and magic rule in Walt Disney s legendary classic tale The Sword In The Stone now celebrating its 45th Anniversary with exciting new bonus features!
Embark on an adventure-filled quest for an unlikely hero! According to legend, only someone with honor, decency and inner strength can claim the throne of England by pulling out the enchanted sword that lies locked in a massive stone. Many brave knights have tried, so it seems impossible that a young apprentice known as Wart could succeed. But with the guidance of the wizard Merlin, help from some hilarious friends and true strength of character, Wart just might become England s greatest king.
There s even more wizardry fun with marvelous new bonus features including the all-new Merlin s Magical Academy game, animated shorts, Disney s song selection and much more! The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Special Edition DVD is a magical experience your whole family will want to share again and again!
ENDBased upon T.H. White’s beloved novel, this Disney-fied version chronicles the tutoring of the Once and Future King, Arthur, as handled by the magician Merlin. Sword was a portent of things to come, with slapstick upbraiding storytelling, and cultural in-jokes substituting for wonder. But there’s much to enjoy here as Merlin shows Newt, the young Arthur, things that will help him become the ruler of the Britons. The transformation sequences, where the boy is turned into a fish, a bird, and a squirrel are vintage Disney. The oft-repeated scene of Merlin battling it out with the mean old Madame Mim still is worth a few chuckles, but it belies the problem with most of the film–the scenes are only there for the chuckles. References by Merlin to television and other items of modern life also mar the generally innocuous landscape. Children will like it, but they won’t cherish it. –Keith Simanton
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April 1, 2008
#1
this movie is for boys and is based on the story when everybody tries to pull a sword from the stone in order to be the new king. Nobody can, and one day, this boy (arthur) is looking for the soilders sword and cant find it cuz the castle is locked. So he sees the sword in the stone and simpley pulls it out and becomes king. No one can believe it, so he does it again til they are satisfied.
April 1, 2008
#2
Along with THE JUNGLE BOOK (which at least has one great hot-jazz musical number to recommend it), this is probably the worst Disney animated film made in Walt’s lifetime. A genuinely philistine desecration of T.H. White’s masterpiece of a novel, the movie is dumbed-down, shrill, crude, and apallingly unfunny. By this time, three things had seriously damaged the quality of the Disney Studio’s animated work. 1: The Disney “style” of adaptation had turned into a rock-hard formula, and not a very good one. 2: Disney had discovered that more cash could be made from relatively cheap live-action sit-comedies (remember the flood of stuff like THE BOATNIKS, or THE WORLD’S GREATEST ATHLETE?), which essentially led to a loss of interest in the cartoons on the part of the studio, and 3: Walt himself lost interest in the movie division generally, following the failure of SLEEPING BEAUTY, and transferred his tremendous energy, talent, and enthusiasm to the creation of Disneyland, which occupied him almost obsessively for the rest of his life. The cinematic results were movies like this one. The current Disney corporate line, “All Disney is classic, all Disney is great” has been bought into buy quite a few comped-by-the-company professional critics, but at the time this movie was released it was generally described by reviewers as junk, and junk it is. The thirty or so years of DisneyCo self-mythologizing allow them to sell nearly anything to parents that has the Disney name on it, but you’d be better off watching moss grow than to sit through this unfortunate thing.
April 1, 2008
#3
I AM A DISNEY FANATIC AND LOVE TO WATCH AND COLLECT THIS MOVIES.BUT I MUST ADMIT I WAS DISAPPOINTED WITH SWORD IN THE STONE!!I FOUND THE STORY BORING AND THE ANIMATION IS POOR IN COMPARISON TO THE PRINCE OF EGYPT OR THE QUEST OF CAMELOT!! I FEEL ASLEEP THROUGH THE MOVIE!
April 1, 2008
#4
I bought the video for my son. My package arrived quickly and in perfect condition. Brand new in sealed wrap.
April 1, 2008
#5
What happens when you take Disney, the story of King Arthur before he pulls the sword, TH White, mix them together and make a movie?
A movie that sucks.
How did that happen?
By following the book.
The movie version of Sword in the Stone has a young Arthur meeting a goofy Merlin the Magician who gives life lessons while turning Arthur into various animals of various species with singing and dancing.
It’s dull, dreary, not cute, and at 79 minutes, way too long. Yeah, Sword in the Stone follows the book, and that’s great. It is good when movies follow the book, but sometimes what we get instead is nothing more than a silly children’s movie rather than a decent telling of Arthur pulling the stone.
The Sword in the Stone is Disney-Lite and not nearly as good as it could or should be. Let me phrase that differently: The Sword in the Stone is not good, as it should have been.
There are special features on the disc. This is normally where I would talk about them, but special features only matter if the movie is worth seeing.
The Sword in the Stone is not.