A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1995) User Reviews

Entertaining Adventure

[claudio_carvalho · 6/10 · 21 April 2017]

In Connecticut, Hank (Philippe Ross) is a shy high-school teenager that plays rock in a band with his friends. While trying to fix an amplifier for the band, he gets a shock and awakes in the land of a peasant. He is imprisoned by Alisande (Polly Shannon), who is the fiancée of Sir Galahad (Paul Hopkins), and brought to the Court of King Arthur (Nick Mancuso). Hank lures King Arthur and Merlin (Michael York) using his knowledge of an eclipse and succeeds to get a workshop to try to return to the future and Alisandre falls in love with him. Meanwhile the evil Morgan Le Fay (Theresa Russell) conspire with the knight Ulrich (Jack Langedijk) to overthrow King Arthur.

"A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is an entertaining adventure of an American teenager that mysteriously travels to the past to the King Arthur's Court. There are several film with similar storyline and this one does not disappoint with a great cast. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Um Forasteiro na Corte do Rei Arthur" ("A Foreigner in King Arthur's Court")

Note: On 19 October 1998, I saw this film for the first time (my vote: seven)

This movie is so cool!

[Lady_Targaryen · 8/10 · 16 November 2005]

I am very surprised to notice that this movie doesn't have even one comment here in IMDb! It's such a pity that it is not popular, because I think many people would enjoy to watch it. The plot is very creative (at least I never watched a movie with the same plot)and interesting: Hank, a 17 year old boy, is very shy with the girls and loves to play guitar. One day, he knock his head and and wakes up in the medieval England,having problems with the locals, until lady Alisande takes him as her prisoner to offer to King Arthur. There,he tries to warn people that he is from XX century,but nobody believes him,condemning him to death. Using his technology and knowledge by his favor,Hank has success in save himself ('blocking the sun with the help of Elvis '--> actually he knows everyday which days had an eclipse in the past .*great part*) Safe, he starts to be friends with many people of the court( including the King)but specially with lady Alisande. The problem is Galahad, who is Alisande's future husband, who is jealous and practically force Hank to have a duel with him; at the same time, Hank tries to go back to XX century.