Line #8 YMMV/TheMagicSword


1	* AntiClimaxBoss: The final showdown between George and Lodac is averted when Sybil pickpockets Lodac's magic ring and uses its power to kill Lodac herself.
2	** The dragon is also. It never once moves from its single spot. Sybil restores George's magic, he simply walks up and stabs it to death easily.
3	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: When Lodac ''clearly'' introduces himself as '''R'''odac, but then the king and everyone in the movie ''including Rodac himself'' refer to him as '''L'''odac. This is never explained and yet it made the final cut of the movie. It's anyone's guess why on Earth it happened at all.
4	* DesignatedHero: George, big time. Sir Branton and Lodac are indeed awful, but considering he's a whiny pervert with zero skills who only succeeds due to his sorceress adopted mother, it's hard to root for him.
5	* NightmareFuel:
6	** Lodac's face getting nastily clawed up by the panther Sybil, and his neck tilts towards the camera to show us he's dead... ''then zooms up on his bloody face''.
7	** The deaths of the first two princesses Helene meets. Mostly because we [[NothingIsScarier don't see them get eaten, but we hear them scream]]. And [[{{Troll}} Lodac]] is right there ''enjoying'' it.
8	** Dennis and James are entranced by a burning spiral... thing, and the viewer gets treated to a lovely view of their bubbling skin and scorched-away hair.
9	** Where the Princess manages to escape her cell after being taunted by them dwarves who appear out of nowhere. She stumbles on a still gargoyles with living eyeballs that looks at her... then, she hears tiny squeaky voices begging over and over to be freed... it turns out to be a group of men shrunk down and stuffed into a hanging cage. The princess is horrified.
10	* StrangledByTheRedString: George falls in love with Helene after spying on her numerous times with Sybil's magic pool, doesn't speak to her until he gets to Lodac's lair, and they're married after Lodac is defeated.
11	* TheScrappy: George is a whiny, petulant pervert who traps ''his own adoptive mother in a basement alone with no way out'' so he can steal the gifts he didn't earn to go rescue a girl he has been perving on for what we assume to be months or years. And it doesn't get any better after he faces the seven curses, as he basically bumbles his way through them and gets every single knight with him killed. He only succeeds against the dragon because Sybil gets out of the basement and teleports there to restore his magic. Without her magic, George literally would have died in the first or second curse, and he doesn't even thank Sybil in the end. Such a good hero, hmm?
12	* SpecialEffectsFailure: The whole production is mighty cheap, but there are three things that stand out as the most egregious. The first curse has a creature that is supposed to be a giant, but it's painfully obvious it's an actor in a werewolf mask standing in a tiny set to look larger than he is. It doesn't help that the method to defeating it is also really silly, which ends up being George riding around it in circles until it gets too dizzy and then it's stabbed to death. The second is how it looks when Lodac turns Sir Branton into a hunting trophy hung on his castle wall. It looks very badly done and frankly a bit silly. Lastly, the pathetic dragon that George fights as the sixth curse. It's glaringly obvious that it's made of paper Mache and it can barely move an inch. It just swivels its head around blowing fire and slowly whaps its tail at George until Sybil is able to restore George's magic and he walks up and simply stabs it to death. Forget that this dragon was breathing fire that should've cooked George and his horse to death, by the way.
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Context YMMV / TheMagicSword