Ye Olde Heroes

Critic Reviews

Oh, what a riotous romp through the Ren-fair rejects box 'Ye Olde Heroes' turned out to be! Directed by the clearly jesting Sidney Lumoose, this film slings more than just mud at its unsuspecting audience, splattering us with a plethora of anachronistic punchlines that would make even a court jester blush. The audacity to put Brie Larcheese, Woody Almond, and Deboar-ah Kerr in the same frame, clad in faux chainmail and spandex, could only be the brainchild of a madman or a genius—or perhaps a delightful mix of both. The trio's quest to lampoon, quite literally, the superhero genre amidst a backdrop of the Renaissance, where the only thing missing is a 'Ye Olde Starbucks' on every corner, is bold, irreverent, and as subtle as a catapult launching a cow. Our 'heroes' grapple with villains who have less depth than a kiddie pool, while the entrepreneurial spirit is skewered more savagely than a boar at a banquet. It's a PG-rated escapade where dragons are about as threatening as a Yorkshire terrier and the satire cuts with the precision of a butter knife. For those capable of enduring the barrage of medieval mishaps and a script dripping with enough sarcasm to flood a moat, 'Ye Olde Heroes' is the slap in the face history never knew it needed. Bravo, Lumoose, for this gleefully self-aware historical hiccup that saved us from the doldrums of serious cinema. I suppose sometimes we do need to swap our chainmail for a chuckle, and in that, this film is a shining, if not slightly tarnished, suit of armor.