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'''''Quest for Camelot''''' (also known as ''[[Is That What They're Calling It Now?|The Magic Sword]]'') is an animated film released by [[Warner Bros]] Animation in 1998. It was generally disliked by audiences, but did receive several award nominations for its soundtrack (composed by Patrick Doyle, with songs written by David Foster), which won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song for "[[Award Bait Song|The Prayer]]." As with most [[Follow the Leader]] animated features of the decade (the leader being [[Disney]]), it had a big-name voice cast, including [[Harry Potter|Gary]] [[The Dark Knight|Oldman]] as the villain, Ruber; [[The Princess Bride (
The film is ''very'' loosely based on a book by Vera Chapman called ''The King's Damosel'' (AKA ''The King's Damsel''), inspired by [[King Arthur|Arthurian]] lore. The story was made more [[Executive Meddling|'family friendly']] during production by the additions of songs and cute animal friends; these concessions to the [[Animation Age Ghetto]] were some of the main criticisms leveled at the film when it was released.
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=== ''Quest for Camelot'' contains examples of: ===
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Possibly unintentional, but Gary Oldman's character Ruber (an [[Obviously Evil|obvious villain]]) is very similar to [[Lost in Space
** The song "If I Didn't Have You" has got the line "[[Monty Python|You'd be extinct, you'd cease to be]]", sung by Devon, voiced by Eric Idle.
* [[Affably Evil]]: The Griffin, at least when he isn't interacting with the good guys; could arguably even be an example of [[Dark Is Not Evil]], since he's just Ruber's pet anyway.
** A memorable quote by said Griffin (upon being berated by Ruber for not replying): "Sorry master, my mouth was full!"
* [[All-Star Cast]]: As explained above, a big part of the voice cast were pretty big names.
** The singers were not slouch either. [[The Corrs
** Even the non-English versions got pretty big names and talented voice actors and singers from each respective country. See the [[Quest for Camelot/YMMV|Your Mileage May Vary]] entry for details.
* [[Animated Musical]]
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* [[Disneyfication]]: What happened to the original story. Ironic, considering that [[Warner Bros]]. were actually competing with Disney at the time. See [[Executive Meddling]] in the Trivia section.
* [[Excalibur]]
** [[Excalibur in
* [[Expy]]: One major complaint from both [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Quest_for_Camelot_1998.aspx?Page=2 The Agony Booth] and [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/17979-quest-for-camelot the Nostalgia Critic] was that in both looks and personality, Kayley's essentially [[Beauty and
* [["Falling in Love" Montage]]: Kayley and Garret, during their "''Looking Through Your Eyes''" duo.
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Kayley. She did have a moment or two, but she mostly wasn't much of a fighter.
* [[Feelies]]: The VHS release came with a necklace whose charm featured Devon and Cornwall. Annoyingly, said necklace was under not the shrinkwrap on the new movie, but under the plastic of the clamshell cover — meaning that you either had to partly ruin the cover to get the blasted thing out, or you had a heck of a time lining it up neatly on your video shelf.
* [[Forbidden Zone]]: The Forbidden Forest. No, [[Harry Potter (
* [[The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson]]: Devon and Cornwall. Also Bladebeak quoting ''[[
* [[Gonk]]: Ruber.
* [[Happily Ever After]]: The ending features Kayley and Garret riding off together on a horse which is adorned with a sign reading "Just Knighted." One presumes there was a wedding in there too, but it's never specifically stated.
* [[Handicapped Badass]]: Garret.
* [[Hand Wave]]: The only explanation for the moving plants is a blink-and-you-miss-it reference to the forest being "enchanted". Where Ruber got his potion might also qualify - he states in his [[Villain Song]] that he bought it from some witches.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Bladebeak undergoes one of these after he finds his mate locked in a cage by Ruber, [[Minion
** [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal]]
* [[High Fantasy]]: Attempted, but not executed too well. Since the film is loosely based on the [[King Arthur]] mythos and is supposed to be taking place in Britain, many feel that some of its unexplained fantastic elements like the moving plants and Ruber's potion seem out of place (though see [[Hand Wave]] above).
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** Also, let's not forget the involvement of [[The Corrs]] in this film. Their style is specially prominent in ''On My Father's Wings'', which almost sounds like ripped off from their album ''Talk On Corners''.
* [[Seven Heavenly Virtues]]: As sung during the introduction to Camelot. Except there are more like fifteen.
* [[Shout-Out]]: There are lots of [[
** Also during Devon & Cornwall's musical number, at one time they're falling down a canyon ripped straight from a Wile E. Coyote cartoon.
** Also a [[Monty Python]] shout-out during the dragons' song, when Devon (voiced by Python Eric Idle) declares, "You'd be nothing without me -- you'd be extinct! '''You'd cease to be!'''"
** And during the lines when Cornwall sings about being "the Dragon King", he holds Devon up on a kopje in open parody of Simba's presentation in ''[[
** During the scene where Cornwall has a chainsaw, he is wearing a hockey mask. (Although Jason Voorhees [[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
** Garret is a teenager/young adult dressed in green with a wooden weapon looking in an enchanted forest for a mythical sword. [[The Legend of Zelda|Think about that for a second. I'll wait.]]
*** Funny enough, the Gameboy Color game was obviously based on the 2D Legend of Zelda games.
** During the [[Final Battle]], [[John Williams]] ' [[Superman (
* [[Sidekick Song]]: "If I Didn't Have You"
* [[Slipknot Ponytail]]: During her escape, Kayley runs into a forest where one of the branches snags her hair tie and undoes her ponytail. After she's freed from Garret's net a short time later, she's seen finding another hair tie and fixing it back up. Which is funny, since a lot of the promotion material used ended up using the loose-haired Kayley over her ponytail version.
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* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: "The Prayer" and... well, lots of other songs.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: [[Andrea Bocelli]] drops by for an Italian version of The Prayer over the credits. This is appropriate when you remember that he became blind in a very similar manner to Garret, after being hit in the head as a child. Was he perhaps the inspiration for Garret's backstory?
* [[Surrounded
* [[Theme Park Version]]: Of generic fantasy films. The plot chugs along whether the characters are coming or not, leaving the characters free to think in cliches when they think at all. The end result is that it hits all the major plot points of such a movie, but it doesn't [[That Guy With
* [[Those Two Guys|Those Two Dragons]]: Cornwall and Devon - who HAPPEN TO SHARE ONE BODY ! ! !
* [[Villain Song]]: "Ruber's Song", though with no melody, tune or rhythm it truly stretched to the vaguest of limits what qualifies as a "song". There actually is a bit of rhyming in it, so it's less of a "song" and more of a "long-winded mediocre poem". Then again, it's Ruber. He's a bit too erratic for a proper song.
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