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Lancelot: Guardian of Time (1x426)

: 27, 2024

What if Sir Lancelot wound up in the world of today? I mean, like, can you even imagine?? Yeah, you probably can, if you saw Encino Man, or even just the trailer for Encino Man. But Lancelot: Guardian of Time has so much more going on. Like John Saxon as Wolvencroft, the extremely non-canonical sorcerer who controls time and also curates a chintzy museum exhibit in the 1990s. And Babylon 5’s Claudia Christian as an author who’s tired of all this feminism business and just wants to meet a good old-fashioned chivalrous man! Be careful what you wish for, Claudia, you might wind up with a medieval knight possessing a mullet beyond compare. Lancelot and Wolvencroft are in a race to find young Arthur, still a squire, who is lost somewhere deep in the '90s. The movie makes the bold choice to take away any dignity or intelligence King Arthur had, and leave him as a confused silent stooge who steals hot dogs from volleyball players in the park. All hail the Once and Future Dweeb.