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* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: At night we see some lovely shots of the full moon. This is all happening with in 3 days of a solar eclipse.
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** It’s doubly ironic casting that Patrick Stewart played probably the one most well known wizard character in fiction other than Gandalf from the Film/TheLordOfTheRings who was played by his best friend Creator/IanMckellen.
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** It’s doubly ironic casting that Patrick Stewart played probably the one most well known wizard character in fiction other than Gandalf from the Film/TheLordOfTheRings who was played by his best friend Creator/IanMckellen.
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** It’s doubly ironic casting that Patrick Stewart played probably the one most well known wizard character in fiction other than Gandalf from the Film/TheLordOfTheRings who was played by his best friend Creator/IanMckellen.
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*MerlinAndNimue: This movie have the younger version (later the older version) of Merlin and the Lady of the Lake.
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* GenderFlip: The female Kaye is meant to be the modern counterpart of Sir Kay, King Arthur's foster brother in the legends.
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* InfantImmortality: Since it'd be bad to watch hundreds of school kids getting slaughtered by monsters, this trope only adds to the CurbStompBattle in the finale where the kids are able to fight Morgana's army fairly easily.
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* InfantImmortality: ImprobableInfantSurvival: Since it'd be bad to watch hundreds of school kids getting slaughtered by monsters, this trope only adds to the CurbStompBattle in the finale where the kids are able to fight Morgana's army fairly easily.
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* CurbStompBattle: An army of schoolchildren manage to fairly easily win against an army of demons summoned by an evil sorceress. Crosses over with InfantImmortality.
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* CurbStompBattle: An army of schoolchildren manage to fairly easily win against an army of demons summoned by an evil sorceress. Crosses over with InfantImmortality.ImprobableInfantSurvival.
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* IAteWhat: Merlin requests an odd combination of beaver urine, chicken bone and beetle blood, as that combination of ingredients makes a potion that helps him keep his strength in the mortal realm. He eventually finds all necessary ingredients in a local fast food place; beetle's are mashed to dye soda, chicken bone is ground in their nuggets and beaver urine is a part of the flavoring in the milkshake. This is mostly truth in television.[[labelnote:note]]Specifically, the "beetle blood" is actually the dried and ground cochineal bug (not really a beetle but rather a type of cactus-infesting aphid) which is used as a red coloring in cosmetics and food, the "beaver urine" is the use of diluted castoreum, a scent gland of beavers (though it's rarely used nowadays) in flavorings such as vanilla and raspberry, and the "ground bone" is common in most processed meats where significant amounts of powedered bone ends up along with the meat. [[/labelnote]]
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* IAteWhat: Merlin requests an odd combination of beaver urine, chicken bone and beetle blood, as that combination of ingredients makes a potion that helps him keep his strength in the mortal realm. He eventually finds all necessary ingredients in a local fast food place; beetle's are mashed to dye soda, chicken bone is ground in their nuggets and beaver urine is a part of the flavoring in the milkshake. This is mostly truth in television.[[labelnote:note]]Specifically, the "beetle blood" is actually the dried and ground cochineal bug (not really a beetle but rather a type of cactus-infesting aphid) which is used as a red coloring in cosmetics and food, the "beaver urine" is the use of diluted castoreum, a scent gland of beavers (though it's rarely used nowadays) in flavorings such as vanilla and raspberry, and the "ground bone" is common in most processed meats where significant amounts of powedered powdered bone ends up along with the meat. [[/labelnote]]
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* MagicalGesture: How Merlin's [[spoiler: and Bedders]] spells are cast. It looks like some kind of hamboning and clapping.
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* MagicalGesture: How Merlin's [[spoiler: and Bedders]] Bedders']] spells are cast. It looks like some kind of hamboning and clapping.
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* CastingGag: Patrick Stewart as Merlin, Stewart had previously played a role in ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'' a different film about Myth/KingArthur.
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* CastingGag: Patrick Stewart as Merlin, Merlin Stewart had previously played a role in ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'' ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'', a different film about Myth/KingArthur.
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* ShoutOut: Numerous references are made to other fantasy tales involving a young hero taking on a life-changing journey, including ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', and ''Franchise/TheLordOfTheRings''. Lance at one point taunts Alex with "[[Literature/PercyJackson Percy Jockstrap]]".
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* ShoutOut: Numerous references are made to other fantasy tales involving a young hero taking on a life-changing journey, including ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', ''Film/HarryPotter'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', and ''Franchise/TheLordOfTheRings''. ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. Lance at one point taunts Alex with "[[Literature/PercyJackson "[[Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Percy Jockstrap]]".
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* CentralTheme: Each of the four main characters have a theme associated with them throughout the story:
** Lance - Fear of inadequacy. Because of his being afraid of not being "strong enough" to others, he tries to establish himself as the dominant guy. Because of this, he has to learn to be a follower and the strength that being a loyal teammate has.
** Kaye - Immaturity. Kaye is described as "callow" by Morgana due to the fact that she doesn't take responsibility for her actions and seems to just blindly follow after Lance, blaming it on the world for being in a shoddy state. When she starts to take responsibility for her choices, she starts growing as a reliable ally.
** Bedders - Cowardice. Even though he's as idealistic as Alex, he's clearly incapable of taking care of himself and depends on Alex to watch over him. Thankfully, he starts to grow more confident in himself without depending on everyone else to save his butt.
** Alex - Fantasy and [[spoiler: Bitterness. Alex spends over half the movie chasing a fantasy that his dad is some hero related to King Arthur, making him {{The Chosen One}}. Once he learns the truth, he goes into a {{Heroic BSoD}} and harbors bitterness against his mother, preventing him from being able to kill Morgana in their first encounter. Once he realizes this, however, he makes amends with his mother and his team before preparing to put Morgana down for good]].
** Lance - Fear of inadequacy. Because of his being afraid of not being "strong enough" to others, he tries to establish himself as the dominant guy. Because of this, he has to learn to be a follower and the strength that being a loyal teammate has.
** Kaye - Immaturity. Kaye is described as "callow" by Morgana due to the fact that she doesn't take responsibility for her actions and seems to just blindly follow after Lance, blaming it on the world for being in a shoddy state. When she starts to take responsibility for her choices, she starts growing as a reliable ally.
** Bedders - Cowardice. Even though he's as idealistic as Alex, he's clearly incapable of taking care of himself and depends on Alex to watch over him. Thankfully, he starts to grow more confident in himself without depending on everyone else to save his butt.
** Alex - Fantasy and [[spoiler: Bitterness. Alex spends over half the movie chasing a fantasy that his dad is some hero related to King Arthur, making him {{The Chosen One}}. Once he learns the truth, he goes into a {{Heroic BSoD}} and harbors bitterness against his mother, preventing him from being able to kill Morgana in their first encounter. Once he realizes this, however, he makes amends with his mother and his team before preparing to put Morgana down for good]].
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** In a slightly rare case, [[spoiler: Alex himself falls into this in the final act, as he had been the leader of the group and the most idealistic...but is quick to realize that Morgana wasn't defeated after the first confrontation because of his bitterness towards his mother for lying to him about his father, meaning that despite insisting upon the Code within his group, he was the one to break it. However, it's averted in that once he realizes his mistake, he gently confronts his mother about everything and forgives her before going to his friends and both explaining and apologizing. They accept his apology and are ready to fight at his side again to stop Morgana for good]].
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* IAteWhat: Merlin requests an odd combination of beaver urine, chicken bone and beetle blood, as that combination of ingredients makes a potion that helps him keep his strength in the mortal realm. He eventually finds all necessary ingredients in a local fast food place; beetle's are mashed to dye soda, chicken bone is ground in their nuggets and beaver urine is a part of the flavoring in the milkshake. This is mostly truth in television.
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The physical release was on April 16, 2019, making this film the first home media release after {{Creator/Disney}}'s purchase of 20th Century Fox.
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Not to be confused with ''Film/TheManWhoWouldBeKing''.
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* IAteWhat: Played with, Merlin requests an odd combination of beaver urine, chicken bone and beetle blood, as it turns out that combination of items help ingredients makes a potion that helps him keep his strength in the mortal realm. He eventually finds all necessary ingredients in a local fast food place.place; beetle's are mashed to dye soda, chicken bone is ground in their nuggets and beaver urine is a part of the flavoring in the milkshake. This is mostly truth in television.
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* AdultFear: Alex's mom is forced to contend with her young son running away from home.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Alex spends the majority of the movie believing that his father was a descendant of King Arthur and was fully aware of Alex's destiny as TheChosenOne, misunderstanding his mother's claims that he had his "demons" as literally fighting demons. Much to his severe disappointment, his father was a drunkard who simply didn't give a damn about his family and just left. Alex ends up having quite a personal crisis afterwards.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The magic potion. And the metal duplication illusion. And the fact that the Lady in the Lake appears in any body of water in England. And Merlin requiring beaver urine, chicken bone and beetle blood. And Alex's ability to knight people.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Alex is red, Bedders is black, Lance is blue and Kaye is purple.
* ConversationalTroping: Much of why Alex goes on his quest is because he recognizes how circumstances matches that of TheHerosJourney. He even compares his story to that of ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', noting the presence of a DisappearedDad and a CallToAdventure.
* CrapsackWorld: The opening montage demonstrates how England and the world at large is in a state of crisis, awakening Morgana and necessitating Excalibur's return to be held in the hands of a new once and future king.
* CrapsackWorld: The opening montage demonstrates how England and the world at large is in a state of crisis, awakening Morgana and necessitating Excalibur's return to be held in the hands of a new once and future king.
* FailedAttemptAtDrama: As Alex tells Kaye and Lance about how they are modern reflections of King Arthur and his knights, he points out how they are even meeting at a round table...only to be revealed that the kids are currently sitting at a square table. It's round once they get the flaps up, though.
* OhCrap: Merlin when he learns the eclipse is coming in a matter of days.
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* ShoutOut: Numerous references are made to other fantasy tales involving a young hero taking on a life-changing journey, including ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', and ''Franchise/TheLordOfTheRings''. Lance at one point taunts Alex with "Percy Jockstrap".
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Set in modern day Britain, 12-year-old Alexander Elliot (Louis Ashborne Serkis) comes across the legendary sword Excalibur and pulls it from a stone. He soon learns from the wizard Merlin (Creator/PatrickStewart as an old man, Angus Imrie as a teenager) that the dark sorceress Morgana Le Fay (Creator/RebeccaFerguson) will rise from the underworld and bring about a terrible evil unto the world. Alex joins forces with his best friend Bedders (Dean Chaumoo) and bullies Lance (Tom Taylor) and Kaye (Rhianna Doris) to become knights and defeat Morgana.
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Set in modern day Britain, 12-year-old Alexander Elliot (Louis Ashborne Serkis) Serkis, son of [[Creator/AndySerkis Andy]]) comes across the legendary sword Excalibur and pulls it from a stone. He soon learns from the wizard Merlin (Creator/PatrickStewart as an old man, Angus Imrie as a teenager) that the dark sorceress Morgana Le Fay (Creator/RebeccaFerguson) will rise from the underworld and bring about a terrible evil unto the world. Alex joins forces with his best friend Bedders (Dean Chaumoo) and bullies Lance (Tom Taylor) and Kaye (Rhianna Doris) to become knights and defeat Morgana.
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* MagicalBarefooter: Accidental (see NakedOnArrival, below), but Merlin does seem to have a certain fondness for being barefoot, as he does question why the police would be suspicious of his "keeping the natural circulation" going. He also puts his bare (and dirty) feet up in the police car.
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* RealityEnsues: Fighting demons can mean many things, like fighting malevolent supernatural entities, or dealing with something more personal, [[spoiler:like alcoholism. Alex learns the hard way from his aunt that his father was an alcoholic, not a heroic knight, and was not the good man his mother made him out to be. He left them simply because he didn't care about them, and his mother lied in hopes that Alex wouldn't follow the same path his deadbeat father did. This revelation almost made Alex lose faith in not just his parents, but himself as well.]]
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* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler: Played with. Alex initially believes he was descended from King Arthur through his father. When it's revealed that was not the case, Merlin tells him that Excalibur is not awarded based on your own merits, not who your ancestors were.]]
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* ActorAllusion: [[Film/{{Excalibur}} Patrick Stewart in a film about King Arthur]].
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