I saw a trailer for it in the last few movies I've been to so I got to see it a lot, but yeah, I've only recently been seeing You Tube ads for it.
And yeah, "Percy Jackson" was not the best way to market it either since those movies bombed and were awful besides.
Something i'm confused about is why they have Merlin played for much of the movie by a young guy when his older form is Patrick Stewart...he's Patrick Stewart! People would see the movie just for him, so I would feature him as much as possible.
Wow, the marketing for it in the US must be very different from the UK marketing because this is the first time I'm hearing of any connecting between this film and Percy Jackson films.
Also this is a British film involving King Arthur, why is it being released in the US almost a month before the UK release.
[[quoteblocked]]It's from the Percy Jackson people? So a ripoff of a ripoff?[[/quoteblocked]]
Well, I haven't even seen this film, but I can't say I see any plagiarism at work. The only similarity is the broad premise of "regular kid and magic elements", but they're note even around the same mythology (Harry Potter was a hodge-podge of clichéd fantasy elements, Percy Jackson was Greek mythology, this seems to be pop cultural Arthurian myths with a dash of more general Breton/Saxon).
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Truthfully, we haven't gotten a lot of kid oriented fantasy movies recently. The Harry Potter movies became more older teen/adult oriented around Goblet of Fire and the Percy Jackson series aged up the characters to appeal to the contemporary HP films. The Marvel movies are mostly adult-oriented with kid appeal. The House With a Clock in Its Walls was amusing enough, but the thing that interests me with The Kid Who Would Be King is that it actually looks like a relatively sincere Epic Movie with all the tropes involved but aimed towards kids and a few post-modern winks.
Yeah, the advertising on this has been lackluster at best. Someone clearly has no faith in it.
I found the trailer entertaining, but not enough to see the movie. Now that I've heard it's good, maybe I'll go see it if I can find enough free time.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.So the movie really is pretty good. It does fall into some generic cliches (many of which are invoked due to the Arthurian lore they are replicating, but they still played a Disappeared Dad completely straight and psychoanalyzed the bullies to simplicity0) but what most impressed me was the action and visuals. You're obviously limited when it comes to dealing with 12 year olds and stunts, but most of the time there was a genuine sense of danger and excitement. One fun thing was they said each night up until the climax they would have to fend off skeletal warriors seeking to take Excalibur, and each time was more dangerous than the last. So it not only served to escalate the action but each sequence felt different. Patrick Stewart and Rebecca Ferguson help anchor the film with performances that fit well with the overall tone (Morgana in her first few scenes is surprisingly creepy for a PG movie).
The one line I thought was really surprising was the kids talking about Alex being the rightful King and they mention the potential conflict with the current royal family.

https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/01/film-review-the-kid-who-would-be-king/
I've only heard about this movie, and really expected nothing. However, I have been hearing good word to mouth and wondering if I should go see it. Also Patrick Stewart is there as Merlin-man does he love doing family pictures.