Robin Hood-winked!

Robin Hood: Prince of Tights (1991)

Starring: Kevin Costner, Alan Rickman Directed by: Kevin Reynolds Rating: PG-13 Genre: Action Other

Review Hollywood never seems to tire of the bad man from Knotting Hill. Kevin Costner (The Beastmaster) plays the eponymous hero as a knucklehead with a limp wrist and case of chronic fatigue syndrome in this slight but amusing parody of the great Erroll Flynn serials of yesteryear. Costner's british accent seems, at times, to defy gravity as he battles the overmatched Alan Rickman for the love of pulchritudinous Olivia D'Abo. Too bad we didn't get a villain with some meat on his bones - wouldn't Jackie Gleason (dead) have been great?. Look for DVD extras including a embarassingly disastrous musical number that, thankfully, didn't make the final edit. Let's hope there's never a director's cut!