Knights of Badassdom!

With a title like that you can't go wrong!  Can you?

Knights of Badassdom is exactly the sort of movie you would want to make. Take a crazy funny script about LARP'ers (Live Action Role Play) and add some horror themes, a great main cast including a few hot ladies and a dwarf (sorry, little person) and you have a recipe for success in my opinion.  This would have been so much fun to make, I'm jealous.

If you're not familiar with LARP it's where people go meet to role play their fantasy characters and do fake battle.  Yup, it's all the dungeons and dragons stuff involving +4 maces and spells of healing or whatever.  If you've seen the movie 'Role Models' then it's the same thing.  Not sure I should admit this out loud but I reckon it looks like a hell of a lot of fun and would love to give it a go :)

Where to start though?   I'll start small... Peter Dinklage.  What a great actor and obviously feels right at home in any medieval setting after we all fell in love with him in Game of Thrones.  He's absolutely hilarious as Sir Hung and he steals the show in every scene he's in.  Things only get better when Sir Hung downs a bag of shrooms before the event, although that said I think any comedy benefits from a character downing some sort of hallucinogenic.

Next in line is Aussie actor Ryan Kwanten of True Blood fame.  He is great with comedy but also showed depth in the Aussie drama Red Hill (pretty decent flick btw).  Good to see Aussie actors doing well.   Kwanten is a toned down version of his True Blood character for this one, which works well surrounded by his super nerd mates.  Steve Zahn also shares the lead well and for those Community fans there is a small role for Danny Pudi (Abed)...  Love that dude :)

Knights of Badassdom is just a good, funny and silly horror comedy.   Definitely a movie to watch with mates over a few drinks. It's a low budget gem and the old school special effects using real creature costumes compliments the style perfectly.   Like any good horror comedy the kill scene's are way over the top and are delivered with good frequency.  Not a movie to be taken seriously, just enjoy and have a laugh.

My only complaint was lack of boobs.  (sorry ladies).   This sort of movie is only made better by some completely deliberate and blatantly tasteless titty shots.  Take a leaf out of road trips book.

Enjoy :)

8/10

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