Robin Hood 2000 (TV Movie 1996)

Robin Hood 2000: Directed by Michael Kennedy. With Devon Sawa, Sarah Chalke, Billy O’Sullivan, Tyler Labine. A teenage Robin Hood steals for a needy cause in this updated tale of doing the wrong thing for the right reason.

“There are a couple of things wrong with this movie. The first is the increasingly groan-inducing efforts to marry it up with the legend of Robin Hood – the title character is named Robin; he attends Locksley Academy; his love interest is called Marian; his friends are Will Scarlet and John Little; his main protaganist is John Prince; and the local priest is Father Tuck. I was waiting for the Sheriff of Nottingham to appear and sure enough…. The movie actually lifts several scenes right out of the Robin Hood stories. I guess thatu0026#39;s easier for script writers than coming up with ideas of your own. Still, I guess every movie needs some sort of gimmick and the Robin Hood parallels is this oneu0026#39;s.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe second problem with this movie is that it has unfortunately dated itself very badly with its heavy reliance on now outdated technology as part of the plot. You canu0026#39;t blame the writers for that but I do wonder if the tech savvy kids of today will relate to a character that has to use dial-up internet and a computer that looks like it runs the old Netscape browser and Windows 3.1. When Robin tells Marian about his use of the internet, she looks at him blankly and asks him what the internet is. Oddly enough, even though Robinu0026#39;s internet is so far behind what we have today, his computer has a level of voice recognition and voice control that Alexa, Google and Siri are still aspiring to.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnyway, these things aside, this is not the worst family movie I have ever watched. Itu0026#39;s fairly predictable and not really exciting, but I guess the kids might like it. Thereu0026#39;s not much here for adults to enjoy though, but youu0026#39;ll probably have to watch it with the kids anyway, so you can explain dial up internet and other archaic tech that will be completely alien to them. 5 out of 10.”