Max Magician and the Legend of the Rings

Starring:Sherman Brodey
Studio: Sterling Ent
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Ew
The Ultimate Fantasy Film
A classic of sustained awfulness.
A bargain for such a great movie!
possibly the worst movie ever

Max Magician and the Legend of the Rings
Starring: Max Magician
Manufacturer: Allumination
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00007M5IC
Release Date: 2002-03-20

Customer Reviews:

Ew.......2007-01-13

Remember that scene in The Green Mile, when the cruel guard squashed the mouse and everyone was sad and angry? Well, if that guard could have stomped Crimble, I would have been delightfuly pleased. This is not a film, it's a joke.

The most original thing in it is the font they used for the end credits.

But if you like cheeseball films, this is perfect for you, and you can get it for a few bucks, shipping included, used, right here on Amazon.

The Ultimate Fantasy Film.......2006-06-08

Have you ever fantasized about entering magic kingdoms filled with fairies? If so, then this movie is for you.

Hi,
I watched the movie and fell in love with it. Max is a little wimpy boy but then he gets magic powers and kicks [...]. In one scene Max fell down the stairs!!

If you like adventure then rent this movie and hold on to your seat. Elf babes are in this movie but they do not expose sexual organs, nor do they consummate relationships until marriage.

Max not only thrills us with cool tricks, he also shows us how to believe in ourselves, especially when life seems hard. Sometimes my life is hard, sometimes I don't know how to keep on living. That's when I put on Max Magician and find hope.

There is no cussin' in this movie so you can watch it with the whole family. I don't have a family but I wish I did.

Watch this movie, you will be amazed when Max summons a secret army!!!

A classic of sustained awfulness........2006-06-07

The "let's make a cheap (CHEAP) fantasy film" industry has over the years managed to generate at least as much bad acting as old westerns, 1930s-40s serials, Ed Wood films, and porn that aspires to plot lines. And it must be observed that Charles Middleton and Harry Reems (e.g.) could display some slight modicum of the thespian muse -- of which in this mutt of a film there isn't the slightest trace.

Imagine an average High School English class, slogging through a Shakespeare play by reading the parts and hating them. No, the acting here isn't that bad -- it's worse. The impression can't be avoided that that --um, "performers" in this film were selected based precisely on their inability to register emotion. We will dispense with the usual listing of the (understandably unknown) names in order to protect the guilty.

Overall, "Max Magician" is unusually derivative, unimaginative, and overwritten, even for a 3-day-wonder very-low-budget fantasy film. The situations that occur are frequently contrived to the point of absurdity and with an eye toward cheap melodrama.

The plot, such as it is, involves a kid named Max who has difficulties with a school bully (how original!) and is a not untalented amateur magician. He's given an obviously ancient book of (real) magic spells by an elderly neighbor, with the advice to "believe in yourself". Nobody ever explains what this means, but in every crisis the kid has somebody (a mouse or a hawk or whatever) yelling this generic bit of street-corner philosophy at him.

Max uses the book to enter a fantasy world in which there is a developing struggle between elves, trolls, and other inmates of your usual $5-per-CD role-playing game. A deus-ex-machina wizard shows up to teach him to use the spells in his book whilst dispensing platitudinous advice that makes Polonius look like a sage.

Max uses his newfound magic to assist the elves and their friends against the evil troll king (or whatever he is with the ostentatious horns on his head). Max's late confrontation with the latter doesn't amount to much but is nonetheless decisive. The "rings" of the title are a direct steal in basic concept from Tolkien, but have neither a legend nor a significant role to play in the film. In the end there is another confrontation between Max and the bully -- which, however, is unsatisfactorily indecisive.

I wish I could tell you that "Max Magician" has some redeeming feature or features. Alas. While the print used on the DVD is quite clear, it only serves to emphasize how cheesy the "magic" effects (such as they are) appear. Oddly, the makeup isn't all that bad, although elf ears are no more convincing than convention-issue Spock ears. Special effects are minimal and are generally foggy and sparkly effects superimposed on the film. The script, including the mandatory bwa-ha-ha-has from the chief bad guy, lurches from banality to banality.

I don't recommend this film, even for children. We have to maintain some sort of minimum quality standard insofar as they're concerned. Besides, anybody over the age of 5 (if not younger) will watch this with the constant thought that, "Gee, I could be watching mud wrestling instead."

It's instructive to note that prices for used copies on Amazon have plummeted to $0.01 (yep, 1 cent) ... although some idiot thinks he's going to get $50 for it. Probably from some other idiot.

A bargain for such a great movie!.......2006-03-09

For those of you who share my love for pointless, plotless movies...this one's a true gem. It's Mystery Science Theatre material, I laughed the whole way through.

possibly the worst movie ever.......2005-08-23

1 star is even to much to give this movie. Total waste of time. I got this movie in a bargain bin and still feel I paid to much. My rating is a negative -10 for this one.

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