This Week in Movies

Here's the yahoo! movies synopsis for "In the Name of the King", opening this weekend:

"An unspeakably evil army rampages across what was an idyllic, peaceful world, destroying everything in its path, looking to conquer the mighty Castle Ebb and vanquish the King himself! Amidst this backdrop of war in the Kingdom of Ehb, between the evil Gallian and the ruling King Konreid, a once simple family man named Farmer sets out to find his kidnapped wife, Solana, and avenge the death of his son, who was killed by animal warriors called Krugs."

This is going to be like a combination of "Lord of the Rings" and "Braveheart", ground up, mixed with various curing ingredients, flavorants and colorants, and processed into a savory hot dog of cinematic perfection. If nothing else, it's got a rampaging, unspeakably evil army in its favor (as evil as the armies were in the Lord of the Rings movies, they were still speakable, so this is going to be a first). You should also be pretty fired up about the mighty Castle Ebb, located in the Kingdom of Ehb. Personally, I can't wait to see all the Krugs. The most important thing about this movie though, and for some reason the marketers aren't touting this, is that Burt Reynolds plays the King himself! At least I think so; he's listed as "King Konreid" and there are no other Kings in the credits, so one must assume this is the case. "In the Name of Burt Reynolds, the King". That's better.