Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

I love this movie. It is entertaining, funny, and overall enthralling. I highly reccomend it. The action is fun and the acting is great. Yes, it is long, but it's worth it. PARENTS: this is a very violent film; it is not a PG-rated family film; there's blood, dismemberments, and assaults. Please, watch it with your kids. Thanks for reading. -Movie Man

Exelent movie,but even alittle iffy for me to be watching during one scene,but it has positive points!

There is one modern cuss word in this movie, and it is the big bad "F". When Robin and Azeem are catapulted over the wall of Nottingham Castle's walls, Will Scarlet declairs "**** me he cleared it."

Ok so normally I'm not a huge Kevin Costner fan but I did enjoy this the first time I watched it, and since then I have watched it many times with my dad (we both love it, a large part of our father daughter bonding time is spent watching older movies from when he was younger). Now, whoever wrote the main review for this movie missed quite a few things that, as parents and concerned readers, you should know. Starting with the least: A pregnant woman goes into labor and because the baby is breeched they must perform surgery on her, and there were no anesthetics back then... Ouch. The only blood shown is when the baby is first held up. There is also the matter of Morgan Freeman's character... Nothing having to do with the attitude or beliefs, but the issue that some of the other characters have with him being the only black man they've likely ever seen. One young character directly asks him, "Why did God paint you?" I realize this isn't a bad thing because it is actually a sweet point of the film. Although if you have younger children they might question why people are so judgmental of this character. I also want to make clear that the line that Christian Slater says when Robin flies over the wall IS "F--- me, he cleared it!" I understand that IMDb may say that the line is "blow me" but keep in mind that while IMDb is a useful resource, content and info can be altered at anytime by anyone with a membership. Because I'm an archery buff and regularly shoot around at a range near my house I was deeply enthralled with that whole aspect of the movie (yes I was into archery before I ever read/saw the Hunger Games). :) As far as favorite characters go: Will Scarlett (Slater) and Morgan Freeman's character (who's name I cannot think of off the top of my head, sorry). The humor is wonderfully collaborated with the action while still keeping the true values of the original Robin Hood story at heart. To cap off my extremely long and blabbering review... I tend to do this a lot... I will talk about the attempted rape scene which takes place at the very end of the movie. I believe I was roughly 11 or 12 when I saw this for the first time with my dad. I will admit it went right over my head what was going on. I just thought she was trying to get away from him cause she really didn't like him. Now that I am older and more knowledgable I know different. It is not horribly vulgar or violent. So aside from those things, there are only a few minor issues: the scary witch (who is aforementioned in earlier reviews), medieval fighting with occasionally frightening swords and also attempted hangings of multiple characters, and yeah you do see Robin's backside while he's bathing (but it's Marian's fault for peeping in the first place! Haha). Though this may seem like a lot, if you have good kids who know what is right and wrong and of you trust them you should have no issues with this movie. Comments? Questions? Concerns? Email me: ogormanscommonsense at yahoo. :)