![]() Now, take it easy, Friar, I'm just doing my duty.Ĭollecting taxes for that arrogant, greedy, ruthless, no-good Prince John?! Every little bit helps.Īnd His Majesty also blesses you, little sister. It sure is, and I'll take it for poor Prince John. ![]() Now, just a minute, Sheriff! Th-th-th-that's the Poor Box! Why, someday, you'll be called a great hero.Ī hero? Did you hear that, Johnny? We've just been pardoned! I've thought it all out, and it just wouldn't work. Will you marry me?" No, it just isn't done that way.Īh, come one, Robby. Marry her? You don't just walk up to a girl, hand her a bouquet and say, "Hey, remember me? We were kids together. Look, why don't ya stop moanin' and mopin' around? J-Just marry the girl. I guess I was thinking about Maid Marian again. Alan Rickman, however, gets the most attention for his scene-chewing role as the rotten sheriff, an almost campy performance that is highly entertaining but perhaps a little out of sorts with the rest of the film. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, as Marion, makes a convincing damsel in distress, and Morgan Freeman brings dignity to his role as Robin's Moor friend. ![]() After Robin and his community of outcasts and fighters take to the trees, director Kevin Reynolds (Fandango, 187) is on more familiar narrative ground, and he goes for the gusto with lots of original action (Robin shoots two arrows simultaneously from his bow in two directions). That aside, it's refreshing to have a preface to the old story in which we meet the robber hero of Sherwood Forest as a soldier in King Richard's Crusades, coming home to find his people under siege from the cruelties of the Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman). Kevin Costner's lousy English accent is a small obstacle in this often exciting version of the Robin Hood fable.
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