I never thought it would be possible to find a Robin Hood movie with a worse grasp of geography than ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES, but it turns out that ROBIN HOOD AND THE PIRATES is such a film. It's a cheap Italian swashbuckler that sees Robin washed up on a beach in England, only to discover that Sherwood Forest is right alongside it! He soon hooks up with the merry outlaws and goes up against a villain by the name of Brooks (!) to win the heart of a childhood friend.
This is a vehicle for Lex Barker, who smirks and laughs his way through the production and you can hardly blame him. The screenplay seems to have been written by a small child and is loaded with anachronisms, such as the presence of a Union Jack flag that wasn't invented until half a millennium later. The narrative is chock full of dumb comedy and half-hearted swordplay scenes that would have Errol Flynn turning in his grave. It's a waste of time, even for fans of this usually entertaining genre.
This is a vehicle for Lex Barker, who smirks and laughs his way through the production and you can hardly blame him. The screenplay seems to have been written by a small child and is loaded with anachronisms, such as the presence of a Union Jack flag that wasn't invented until half a millennium later. The narrative is chock full of dumb comedy and half-hearted swordplay scenes that would have Errol Flynn turning in his grave. It's a waste of time, even for fans of this usually entertaining genre.