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"ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES" (1991) (Kevin Costner, Alan Rickman) (PG-13) QUICK TAKE: Action/Drama: Upon returning from the Crusades, Robin of Locksley finds his homeland under the vicious rule of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the absence of King Richard, and his father dead by the Sheriff's hand, and he vows to defeat him. PLOT: Robin of Locksley (KEVIN COSTNER) returns to his homeland from the Crusades and a prison in Jerusalem, accompanied by a Moor, Azeem (MORGAN FREEMAN), and finds that his father has been killed by the Sheriff of Nottingham (ALAN RICKMAN) and the estate's servant, Duncan (WALTER SPARROW), blinded. Besides murder, the Sheriff has also engaged in a power grab, ruling the land in the absence of King Richard, casting ill will upon the land. Robin, in his desire to avenge his father's death and defeat this nefarious man, comes upon men living in Sherwood Forest, which Nottingham's soldiers won't come near because they believe it's haunted. Besides getting to know the men and what they lost to the Sheriff's actions, Robin also reconnects with Marian (MARY ELIZABETH MASTRANTONIO), whose brother died in Jerusalem, which Robin relays to her. Marian remembers Robin in their childhood years as being mean and immature, but times change. And as the Sheriff's actions become more drastic, the time for battle draws nearer. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Older kids might be interested in seeing the "Robin Hood" legend played out with Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, and lots of swordplay and other action sequences. WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13 No official reason is given, but it's likely for violence, sexual content, partial nudity and profanity/language. CAST AS ROLE MODELS: KEVIN COSTNER plays Robin of Locksley, recently returned from the Crusades and a Jerusalem prison to find his homeland in utter turmoil by the Sheriff of Nottingham's rule in King Richard's absence. His father was killed by the Sheriff's men and he vows to seek vengeance, while also learning how other people have been affected by the Sheriff. They've been run out of their homes, villages have been pillaged, and lives severely disrupted. He also meets up again with Maid Marian, whom he was unkind to in his younger years, but has clearly matured toward her now, and she notices. He appears nude in one scene and drinks. ALAN RICKMAN plays the Sheriff of Nottingham, who sees it fit to rule England while King Richard is away fighting in the Crusades. However, his form of rule means terrorizing the people by ransacking their villages, and he engages in more of this just to smoke Robin out. He also learns that in order to be crowned the new King, he must marry royal blood and focuses on Marian for this. He drinks, attempts to rape a woman, and orders Robin's father killed. MORGAN FREEMAN plays Azeem, a Moor and Robin's fellow prisoner among many prisoners in Jerusalem, who escapes with him. To express his thanks for freeing him, he vows to stick with him and help him when he's in need, though it takes a long time for him to do so, which Robin comments on. He is a religious man, and also adept with a sword when the situation calls for it. He sees reason where others don't see anything, and refuses drink, because his religion doesn't allow it. MARY ELIZABETH MASTRANTONIO plays Marian Dubois, a former childhood victim of Robin, who has grown into a woman that Robin is attracted to. She is also the sister of Peter, mortally wounded in Jerusalem by an arrow, and Peter tells Robin to tell Marian that he died a hero. She is aware of the dangers brought on by the Sheriff's rule, though refuses to relocate to the palace for safety reasons, as the Sheriff suggests. She is charitable, helping out those displaced by the Sheriff, by allowing them to live on her land. She remembers what Robin did to her when they were younger, but is clearly attracted to him too. MICHAEL WINCOTT plays Guy of Gisborne, the Sheriff's cousin who carries out his orders, but mostly fails them, because Robin is good at eluding and defeating him. He is as murderous-minded as the Sheriff. GERALDINE MCEWAN plays Mortianna, the white-faced witch of the castle, with one stationary eye and the other normal. She uses blood from an egg and other ingredients to try to foresee what will happen to the Sheriff and her lair has white smoke wafting through, as well as frogs, rats, and bones and animal flesh on a table under an upside-down cross. NICK BRIMBLE plays Little John, suspicious of Robin's purpose for being near Sherwood Forest, because he's rich and Little John and his people aren't, so why should Robin stop by? A battle with long sticks between him and Robin finds Robin as the winner and Little John has great respect for him, declaring that he has "balls of solid rock." He agrees to Robin's call for the defeat of the Sheriff by training the men of the forest to fight. He also has a wife, Fanny, and a son, Wulf. SOO DROUET plays Fanny, Little John's wife, and mother of his many children, including young Wulf. Little John doesn't see her as being able to help much in the men's battle against the Sheriff, but she demands that she be a part of it, and certainly has the mind for it. She also gives birth to an eighth child. DANIEL NEWMAN plays Wulf, son of Little John and Fanny, whom Robin saves from the grasp of Guy of Gisborne for poaching deer (the Sheriff's rule over the land has made it necessary for the people of the land to get what they need in any way they can), and he admires Robin and what he stands for, helping out when necessary. CHRISTIAN SLATER plays Will Scarlett, who doesn't like Robin at all and tries to throw a knife at him, but Robin responds in kind by firing an arrow into Will's hand. He spends most of the film skulking about, susceptible to doing what the Sheriff wants, but it's learned later that he has a deeper connection with Robin. MICHAEL MCSHANE plays Friar Tuck, a drunken religious man, who doesn't like the thought of being in Sherwood Forest with Robin and his men, but is forced to be there, to provide spirits and religious guidance. He at first doesn't like Azeem because he's a Moor, but the act of birth soon warms him to the man. He is also very aware of what the bishop under the Sheriff's rule has done selfishly. DANIEL PEACOCK plays David of Doncaster, "Bull" to the other men. WALTER SPARROW plays Duncan, servant to the Locksley home, who is blinded by the Sheriff's attack on the castle. CAST, CREW, & TECHNICAL INFO HOW OTHERS RATED THIS MOVIE Curious if this title is entertaining, any good, and/or has any artistic merit? Then read OUR TAKE of this film. (Note: The "Our Take" review of this title examines the film's artistic merits and does not take into account any of the possibly objectionable material listed below). OUR WORD TO PARENTS: The following is a brief summary of the content found in this PG-13-rated action/drama. Profanity consists of at least 1 "f" word, while other expletives and colorful phrases are uttered. Sexual content includes dialogue, hand gestures, partial nudity, and attempted rape. Violence is extreme, and includes sword fighting, villages being ransacked, facial injuries, punches and kicks to the head and other parts, and weapons, such as bows and arrows, explosives, and long sticks used. That has bloody results, while that and moments of peril might be unsettling and/or suspenseful to some viewers. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitude, while imitative behavior is present in the form of the swordfights and action sequence. Drinking (including inebriation) occurs in several scenes, while tense family material is also present. Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content. ALCOHOL OR DRUG USE Little John tells one of his men to give Robin some mead and Robin drinks from the bottle handed to him. Little John says to his men, "Come on lads, drink up. Stop talking so much bloody rubbish." The Sheriff pours himself some wine into a chalice and drinks from it. In a following scene, he knocks the chalice away with his hand and it splatters the Scribe. Friar Tuck rides his load with an escort from Guy of Gisborne and some soldiers and drunkenly sings, "What's the pleasure in this life; laughter, love and drinking. Good King Richard, bless his soul, loves his wine and warring. But for us who stay at home, there's only beer and whoring." Later, he burps and falls over drunk. One of Robin's men thanks Friar Tuck for the beer. Friar Tuck holds court with a few men in the forest, explaining to them, "This is grain; which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption. Let us give praise to our maker, and glory to his bounty, by learning about beer." Friar Tuck seeks Azeem's friendship after Fanny successfully gives birth, exclaiming, "Come my barbarian friend, so you and I can open a barrel together and do our best to save each other's souls." Azeem refuses, as he is not allowed to do so and Friar Tuck replies, "Well fine then. You talk, I'll drink." BLOOD/GROSS STUFF In a Jerusalem prison, a man screams; his back bloodied from whipping. A man's hand is forced onto a chopping block and strapped down. A guard removes a curved sword from embers, raises it, and cuts off the man's hand and the man screams, his severed hand seen briefly, still in the strap, held by another guard. Robin raises a whip and brings it down hard on a guard, and we hear it hit flesh, but the result is not seen. An old man appears to Robin's father with blood on his face, his forehead, and down his left cheek. Robin flings his bow at a soldier and it hits the man in the face, and the man's mouth and nose are bloodied. A soldier's body is seen with an arrow through the helmet, his face bloodied. In Mortianna's lair, syrupy blood spills from an egg. Robin cuts the inside of his right hand with a knife, vowing by his own blood to avenge his father's death, and blood drips down onto his father's grave. The rear of a horse Robin is riding has blood down the side from an arrow stuck inside, and Robin pulls the arrow out. As Robin and Little John fight, Robin's got a bloody nose and mouth. A skull, bones, and some animal flesh line a table upon which an upside-down cross sits. Robin takes a knife, slashes the Sheriff across the cheek, and quickly closes the door to the priest's private chambers. In a later scene, the Sheriff's facial injury is shown, quite bloody, with blood on the towel draped around his neck. As another man prepares to stitch up the Sheriff's face, the Sheriff tells him to make the stitches small. A man from the burned village shows Robin the injuries on his child's face, bruises and blood. Will Scarlett attempts to throw a knife at Robin, but Robin is warned by Wulf, and he turns around and shoots an arrow into Will's hand. The end of the arrow has blood on it. The Sheriff sticks a sword into a man's stomach, pushes him to the floor, and blood is seen. After Fanny's baby is born, the umbilical cord is seen. Mortianna cuts her arm with her long fingernail to let blood drip into a dish, and she also spits on the blood, which foams and makes a sizzling sound, to tell what will happen to the Sheriff. During a battle in the forest village, Robin has streaks of blood across his forehead and down the right side of his head. As Robin leads a woman out of one house, there is blood on his left hand. Blood is seen on the right side of Friar Tuck's head. As Azeem steps down to the ground, blood is seen on his sword and there is blood across his face. Will returns to the village, and whip marks are seen on his chest. Robin leans down to a pile of excrement on the ground at the castle and begins rubbing some on himself. A hangman spits on Will. A blood scar is on Wulf's face, and blood is on the forehead of the man next to him. The Sherriff nicks Robin on the chin with his father's sword and a spot of blood appears. The bishop has three red scars, like a bird's claw, on the right side of his forehead. After a man is stabbed with a small knife, a drop of spit falls from his lower lip, and then more drips from the man's mouth as he pulls the knife out. He holds the knife out, blood on the blade, and drops it, and blood is seen on his right palm. A woman rises up from behind a table and screams, blood around her mouth. DISRESPECTFUL/BAD ATTITUDE While King Richard is away, fighting in the Crusades, the Sheriff of Nottingham sees it fit to rule England himself. While only mildly concerned of what might happen if King Richard comes back and finds out what he's done, he rules the land unjustly at first because he can, and then to try to smoke out Robin Hood, to make him come forth to kill him. The Sheriff's chief henchman is his cousin, Guy of Gisborne, who seemingly goes on chase after endless chase for Robin, disrupting countless lives in the process and destroying property. He also doesn't give a second thought to beating up or even killing those who displease him. Degradation of women, and by extension, rape, also factors into the Sheriff's lifestyle. Some may find offensive the Sheriff's change of religions when the situation calls for it, as well as an upside-down cross inside the lair of Mortianna, the castle's witch. A man tells Gisborne that the Sheriff is not to be disturbed, and Gisborne grabs the man and throws him down. We learn that while they were children, Robin was a bully to Marian, and burned her hair at one time. As Azeem is of a different color, and a Moor, he is not treated on equal footing as someone like Robin is and this is demonstrated in such scenes where men pass a bottle of mead around the campfire and pass over Azeem, though Robin demands otherwise. Friar Tuck also isn't quite taken with Azeem, believing him to be a savage. The bishop in the castle is a selfish man, looking out more for himself, making sure that Marian's need to get a letter through to King Richard is not fulfilled. FRIGHTENING SCENES Scenes listed under "Violence," "Blood/Gross Stuff" and "Jump Scenes" may be unsettling, suspenseful or scary to younger viewers and/or those with low tolerance for such material. A prison in Jerusalem features men hanging from chains, whippings, body part dismemberments, a guard set on fire, and violent sword action. Rats and frogs and white smoke line Mortianna's lair. She cracks an egg and syrupy red blood oozes from it onto a silver plate and she also throws some wooden tiles onto it and screams loudly from what she sees. Guy of Gisborne and his men ransack villages, searching for Robin. A soldier grabs Marian from behind and lays her on a table, saying, "I've never seen the breasts of a noblewoman," holding a sword to her neck. Marian throws dirt in his face, he shouts, and she takes a rotisserie skewer and spears him with it. During the melee brought on by the Sheriff, his soldiers, and the Celts that have agreed to assist him, a Celt attempts to rape a woman while her children scream in fright. The Sheriff's soldiers raise fire-tipped arrows and fire it at the forest village, setting a lot of property on fire. Balls of fire are also catapulted onto the village, and one man is set afire by that. A soldier runs toward Robin with a sword, but Azeem fires a burning arrow that causes much to explode behind Robin. A soldier fires a burning arrow into a barrel, which explodes. A woman rises up from behind a table and screams. GUNS/WEAPONS Bows and arrows/Explosives/Swords/Spears/Knives/Sticks: Carried and/or used to threaten, wound or kill others and/or cause property damage. See "Violence" for details. IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR Phrases: "F*ck me…," "God speed your way," "You painted old dog," "Get off your damn knees!" "You whine like a mule," "He's a whelp," "Shut up," "Oh, praise be," "God knows," "Come on, damn you!" "Bollocks!" "Tosspots," "All right my old cocker," "It's a bloomin' shame," "I'll be buggered," "That's a load of codswallop," "Don't take note of him. He's full of piss and wind," "Stop talking so much bloody rubbish," "You've stirred up a bloody hornet's nest now," "You pig," "On to glory!" "Bastards," "You stunted shrub," "Allah be merciful," "You swine!" "You freak," "We're going to get you vermin!" "Come on, you milksops!" "Make haste," and "Hurrah!" Some may be tempted to imitate the swordfights, bow-and-arrow shoots, and jumps that take place during the film's many action sequences. Friar Tuck burps before falling over drunk. In trying to get away from Robin, Friar Tuck bites him on the leg. JUMP SCENES A cat screeches and lands on a table in front of Marian. Azeem drops some black powder into a fire and it explodes. MUSIC (SCARY/TENSE) A heavy amount of tense music occurs in the film. MUSIC (INAPPROPRIATE) Friar Tuck steers his horse-driven cart behind the Sheriff's men and sings: "What's the pleasure in this life; laughter love and drinking. Good King Richard, bless his soul, loves his wine and warring. But for us who stay at home, there's only beer and whoring." PROFANITY At least 1 "f" word, 3 damns (1 as "Damned" and 1 as "Damn you"), 2 hells, 1 bollocks, 1 buggered, 3 uses of "Oh God," 1 use each of "For God's sake" and "My God." SEX/NUDITY While the Sheriff speaks to his cousin, a red-headed woman, not happy in her predicament, starts to cover herself up and the Sheriff notices, asking her, "Who told you to cover up?" Robin smacks Marian once on her behind with the side of his sword. Little John introduces Robin to the other men, and points out David of Doncaster, whom the men call "Bull." Seeking the reason, Robin asks him, "'Cause you're short?" David replies, "No. It's 'cause I'm so long!", and he makes a hand gesture near his pants indicating this. Bull attempts to show it, but Robin tells him to "save it for the ladies." The Sheriff points at a servant woman and says to her, "You, my room, 10:30 tonight." He points at another and says, "You, 10:45, and bring a friend." While steering his horse-driven cart loaded with barrels of beer, Friar Tuck sings, "What's the pleasure in this life; laughter, love and drinking. Good King Richard, bless his soul, loves his wine and warring. But for us who stay at home, there's only beer and whoring." Robin comes out nude from swimming in a lake, his bottom seen. A soldier grabs Marian from behind and forces her on a table, saying, "I've never seen the breasts of a noblewoman," and holds a sword to her neck. The Celts arrive, some bare-chested, all armed with swords. A Celt attempts to rape a woman while her children scream in fright. Mortianna feels Marian's belly and says to the Sheriff, "Ah, she's ripe. She will give us a son. You must take her now." The Sheriff shouts, "I will not take her until we are properly wed! For once in my life, I will have something pure." During a swordfight, Robin says to the Sheriff, "If I must, I will take you one piece at a time." The Sheriff kisses Marian hard and replies, "I'll do the only taking today." SMOKING None. TENSE FAMILY SCENES Robin desires to avenge his father's death. Marian learns from Robin of her brother Peter's death. Little John and Fanny worry about their son Wulf, one of the people to be hanged by the Sheriff's orders. TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT The Robin Hood legend. In other "Robin Hood" films, Prince John is also featured, but here, only the Sheriff of Nottingham is the villain. Kevin Costner as Robin of Locksley, compared to other actors such as Errol Flynn, Cary Elwes, and even Frank Sinatra. The same comparisons could also be made of other roles, such as Little John. The Sheriff of Nottingham rules the land in King Richard's absence and makes life miserable for all. The film takes place in 1194 A.D. Right from the start, Will Scarlett does not trust Robin. Azeem is not looked upon kindly by the English, as he is a Moor. VIOLENCE In a prison in Jerusalem, a man's hand is forced onto a chopping block and strapped down. A guard removes a curved sword from smoldering embers, raises it, and chops off the man's hand, and the man screams. In place of another man, Robin puts his hand on the chopping block and it is strapped down. A guard raises the smoking sword and brings it down, but Robin jerks the strap backward and the other guard is brought forward, and an unspecified part is chopped off of him. Robin knees the sword-wielding guard in the groin and slams his head against the chopping block. Peter hoists a sword and hits a guard in the chest, who falls onto the embers and is set afire. The man rolls off the embers and onto the floor. Robin shoves his guard to the floor and we hear a sword clink. He raises a whip and brings it down on the guard and we hear it hit flesh. Azeem shouts, "Behind you!", and Robin turns to see a guard running at him. Robin hits the guard in the stomach with his sword and he falls, and Robin brings the sword down onto the man's back. A guard fires an arrow from up high outside and hits Peter. Mortally wounded, Peter would rather have Robin tell Marian that he died a hero, and he runs toward three guards and tries to fight them, as the camera turns away. Robin's father gallops toward the Sheriff and the Sheriff's men crowd around Locksley and kill him, as the Sheriff watches. A man runs at Azeem from behind, but Azeem catches him by the arm, knees him in the stomach, and flips him to the wet sand. One of Gisborne's soldiers unsheathes a sword, but Robin fires an arrow into him, near his hand. Robin fires an arrow into a soldier's helmet. Robin flings his bow at another soldier and it hits the man in the face, and his mouth and nose are bloodied. Gisborne gallops toward Robin with his sword in hand, and Robin jumps on him and drags him and his horse to the ground. A man tells Gisborne that the Sheriff is not to be disturbed, and Gisborne grabs the man and throws him down. The woman at the door of Marian's castle slams the sliding piece on Robin's fingers. A sword appears behind Robin and he grabs the swordsman and flings him over a long table. The swordsman takes out a knife and slashes at Robin. Robin catches the swordsman by his chest and pushes him away with his foot. In defense, Robin holds deer antlers in front of him, most of which is sliced away by the sword being lashed at him. Robin dodges the sword and holds the man against the wall with what's left of the antlers and places the gloved hand with the sword over a candle flame. The man shrieks for him to stop and it turns out not to be a man at all, and after Robin takes off the swordsman's mask, it turns out to be Maid Marian. The Sheriff's men fire arrows at Robin and Azeem, and miss them, but not Robin's horse, as found out in a later scene. While searching in the water to see if there's anything there, Robin's sword trips a rope which trips him into the water. Robin and Little John fight with sticks. Little John first knocks Robin on the hand and after, his shoulder, his stomach, and his back, and Robin falls into the water. Robin then sneaks behind Little John and knocks him on the back with his stick. The battle continues and they each get a fair share of hits against each other. Soon, Little John thinks he's defeated Robin as Robin doesn't emerge from the water after he falls, but Robin rises up and hits Little John in the groin with the stick and Little John falls into the water. Robin takes a knife, slashes the Sheriff across the cheek, and quickly closes the door to the bishop's private chambers. The Sheriff and his men barge in and Robin cuts the rope of the chandelier and flies up as the chandelier crashes down. The soldiers fire arrows at where Robin once was, above. The Sheriff nearly trips while running and hits two royal subjects on the way out. Robin rides through the activity outside the castle as the Sheriff screams for the gate to be closed, and grabs a sack and hits an unsuspecting soldier with it on the way out. The Sheriff grabs the soldier, punches him four times, grabs him again and punches him once more. Gisborne and his men ransack villages, searching for Robin. One man is hit in the back with a weapon by one of the soldiers riding on horseback. Will Scarlett attempts to throw a knife at Robin, but Robin is warned by Wulf, and he turns around, shooting an arrow into Will's hand. As the Sheriff walks into Mortianna's quarters, he whips himself twice, then a candleholder and a skull. He also stabs at animal bones before throwing down the knife. The Sheriff knocks the chalice of wine off the table and the wine splatters the Scribe sitting nearby. The forest men fire arrows into the soldiers and one man kicks two of the soldiers in the head while swinging over them. Friar Tuck kicks Robin in the face, elbows another man in the face and off of him and rides away. Later, Friar Tuck bites Robin on the leg. Sarah, Marian's lady-in-waiting, kicks Bull in the face. Mortianna cuts her arm with her fingernail to let blood drip into a dish. A soldier grabs Marian from behind and forces her on a table, and says, "I've never seen the breasts of a noblewoman." He holds a sword to her neck, and Marian throws dirt in his face. He shouts, and Marian takes a rotisserie skewer and spears him with it. The Celts come to Sherwood Forest on the offensive, under orders from the Sheriff. Robin kills four men with arrows, Little John battles two with his long wooden stick, Wulf kills one man with an arrow, and one woman chops a ladder down and the man climbing it falls. Robin fires another arrow into a Celt and the man screams. A hulking man on horseback kills three of the woodsmen with an ax as he rides by, and another bashes him in the stomach with a stone tool of some sort and the man falls off his horse. One of the woodsmen sails over the scene on a rope and kicks one of the Celts, and he and his horse fall. Azeem hits two men with his curved sword. Robin swings through on a rope, kicking a Celt off his horse. He then punches another Celt off his horse. Bull hits one man in the stomach with his sword. Azeem slices through another man with his sword. He then hoists one man backwards over his shoulder. A Celt attempts to rape a woman, while her children scream in fright. Two woodsmen fire arrows at the man, hitting him. Will Scarlett pushes a ladder away and the man on it screams and falls off. Arrows are fired and many Celts are hit. The Sheriff's soldiers raise fire-tipped arrows and shoot them at the village. One fiery arrow hits a man on a bridge in the trees and he falls. Balls of fire are also catapulted at the village, hitting a tree house, and splitting apart a bridge where two men fall. Azeem slices through one man twice with his sword, and knocks one man off his horse with it. A soldier prepares to fire an arrow at Little John and Fanny, but is hit from behind by an arrow from Wulf. While it's not shown, we see that the Sheriff has had the Scribe's tongue cut out and the man can only communicate through chalkboard and loudly whispered speech. Little John throws a soldier over the side of a castle wall. A hangman kicks the stool out from under Wulf, and he struggles. Robin fires an arrow, but it only splits the rope a bit. Little John hits a soldier on the back with his arrow on the way to a rescue. A soldier runs toward Robin with a sword, but Azeem fires a burning arrow that causes much to explode behind Robin. A soldier fires a burning arrow into a barrel that explodes. Azeem pokes a soldier in the stomach with a bow. Robin uses an arrow to hit the sword arm of a soldier and then hits him in the face. Azeem does the same to another soldier and he falls. A man slices the rope of a castle gate with his sword and it comes down, blocking the Sheriff's soldiers. The man sticks his sword into the gut of a soldier and pulls it out, and the soldier moans. The hangman kicks the other stools out from under the men and they all hang. Robin punches a man in the face. As the hangman prepares to chop off Will's head, Robin fires a burning arrow that lands right in the forehead of the hangman. Little John pushes the wooden hanging structure to the side to free the men. Robin kicks a soldier in the head. Will dives to the ground with a soldier under him and punches the soldier in the face. Robin fires two arrows that each land in the chests of two soldiers on horseback, and the soldiers fall from their horses. Marian spits in a man's face and a woman slaps her. The woman slaps the bishop. Robin clinks swords with a soldier, then runs his sword through the soldier and pulls it out. More soldiers appear, but Robin knocks down two on his way to attempt a rescue. Robin clashes swords with another soldier and strikes him in the stomach with the side of his sword. Azeem clashes with a soldier right next to Robin, sticks his sword in the man's stomach and pulls it out. A woman runs a pointed stick into a man's stomach. She takes the stick out and the man throws her to the other side of the room with the stick. She runs back to him, right into the stick blade, which sticks out the other side of her too and she groans. A man nicks Robin on the chin with a sword. In the swordfight, Robin jumps over a wooden railing, which the man halves with his sword and knocks down cloth. The man knocks a candelabra off the wall, and Robin upturns a chair, and the man accidentally slices at the wall. They clank swords and the man slices off the thumb of a statue. Marian kicks a table into the battle and the man bangs his head on the side of it. Robin brings down his sword and cuts off some locks of the man's hair. The man kicks Robin in the back and gets up. Marian splashes liquefied candle wax on the man, and the swordfight continues. Robin jumps up and the man knocks off a chunk of a wooden railing. Meanwhile, Friar Tuck is not at all pleased with the selfish ways of one of his brethren and loads the man down with gold coins and pieces of silver and pushes him out a window. After a few more clangs and clinks, the man knocks Robin's sword out of his hand. Robin jumps over another wooden railing, which the man barely cuts. Robin retrieves his sword, kicks the railing down and this time, the man is without a sword. The man runs, pushing over a statue, and another one, and throws a wooden bench at Robin and a wood board. The man gets his sword and they spar again around a purple cloth table. Robin pushes over a statue at the man. The man slices Robin's sword off, and Robin backs into a window frame. Robin throws the sword handle at the man and the man sticks the tip of his blade at Robin's chest. The man raises the blade with the intent to stick it into Robin, but Robin takes a small knife out of his boot and sticks the man in the heart with it. The woman rises from behind a table, screams, and runs toward Robin, intending to kill him, but Azeem throws his sword at her and it knocks her backwards to the ground, the blade in her stomach. Reviewed off DVD / Posted May 14, 2010