Heath Ledger

Rufus Sewell

Shannyn Sossamon

Paul Bettany

Laura Fraser

Mark Addy

Alan Tudyk

Bérénice Bejo

Scott Handy

James Purefoy

Leagh Conwell

Christopher Cazenove

Steven O'Donnell

Jonathan Slinger

Nick Brimble

Karel Dobrý

Philip Lenkowsky

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Petr Meissel

Matthew Mills

Daniel Rous

Vladimír Kulhavý

Miroslav Mokos

Noel Le Bon

Scott Bellefeville

David Schneider

Rudolf Kubík

David Fisher

David Sterne

Alice Connor

Alice Bendová

Berwick Kaler

Howie Lotker

Jan Kuželka

Václav Krejčí

Jan Nemejovský

Jakob Schwarz

Brian Helgeland

Dominic Smithers

Jiří Žůček

Francine Maisler

John Hill

Caroline Harris

Tim Van Rellim

Carter Burwell

Richard Greatrex

Todd Black

Tony Burrough

Kevin Stitt

Noel Cowell

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Tomás Lehovec

Angus Cameron

Patrice Cossonneau

Oliver Ward

Terry Glass

Allan Graf

Marco Scotti

Nicky Jones

Václav Čermák

Jan Rehanzl

Jan Skala

Silvie Janculová

Paul Whybrow

Mark Kebby

Simon Finney

Nicholas Atkinson

Peter Kalin

Joseph Boyle

Mark Bakowski

Gary Spratling

Stuart Hopps

Jim Alloway

Katherine Burchill

Petr Vladyka

Tim Burke

Ivana Chlostova

Jez Oakley

Paul Edwards

Dennis McNeill

Sonny Kompanek

Petr Moravec

Daniel Frisch

Rob Dunbar

Stanley Brossette

Veronika Horka

Peter McNulty

Adam Milo Smalley

Ondřej Sláma

Barbora Jurkovičová

Egon Endrényi

Mark Holding

Val Kuklowsky

Jon Johnson

Sebastian Meuschel

Tomáš Červenka

Bill W. Benton

Keith Bilderbeck

Beverly Winston

Jeffrey J. Haboush

Jiří Ostrý

Bruce Stubblefield

Linda Di Franco

Mark Berrow

Jeremy Braben

Kateřina Silná

Laura Graham

Mo Henry

Meg Leonard

Suzanne Smith Crowley

Tomas Hais

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Dai Hopkins

Charles Maynes

Andy Arnautov

Karel Charvát

Iveta Trmalová

Paul Weston

Brad Kanfer

Drake Jenevein

Fae Hammond

William Booker

Klara Holubova

Steven A. Calabro

Paul Dimmer

Roman Jankovič

John Uribe

Jamie Sewell

Pavel Dostal

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Zdeněk Mrkvička

Václav Kareš

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Great watch, will watch again, and do recommend.

What a fantastic cast: I honestly don't know if you could have cast it better.  Just thinking about Alan Tudyk, Heath Ledger, and Shannyn Sossamon makes me smile.

Everyone plays their roles fantasticly, taking their stock characters, and spinning the writing to the 9th degree: the jerks are hate-able jerks and I can't help but love the leads and supporting characters.

Part of what makes this movie disctinct is that they forces some modern (for the time) music into it when it very did not belong with medieval England / Europe.  There are several scenes where if you squint, you could mistake the movie for "10 Things I Hate About You" or some other teen rom com of that time period.

Fortunately they found a way to balance the jousting content with personality stories, which are by far more entertaining, but unless you're Kevin Smith, you can't exactly cut jousting out of a movie set in competitions for jousting.

This is a fun movie with some positive messaging in it about women and class rights, please give this a go.

My dad, rest his soul, really liked this and at the time it came out I was a pretentious college student that had forsaken all things fun and couldn't understand what my father could possibly like about it.

And now I'm living in a world where someone makes a tweet with the president's head morphed onto Rocky Balboa's body and people are freaking out and screaming "How am I supposed to take it, if not totally literally!"

And I'm sitting off to the side, mumbling that it was just a joke, and seeing my old self that hated A Knight's Tale reflected in those people and thinking "I was a real humorless prig for about four solid years, thank every god that has ever been worshiped that I grew out of that."

When I first saw it I thought the part where the smith added the Nike swoosh to the armor was horrible because, well, I was pretentious and took life far too seriously.... blatant product placement!... sweatshops!...child labor!.... Corporatism! Whatever!

And now that said phase in my life has melted away, it's just a joke and honestly kind of a cute one.

And then the same can be said about Chaucer.... and literary genius, how dare they slander such a.... and now that I'm older he was absolutely the best part of the movie wasn't he?

Classic rock music in movie about the dark ages and... pandering... unrealistic... blah, blah, blah, and now that that ill informed phase in life wore off, it works on multiple levels and most surprisingly they succeed in using it to make you laugh.

I guess the point is that now that I learned to actually enjoy things and not take everything so seriously, so literally, and understand a joke is just a joke, it's a super fun and hysterical comedic romp and to watch it is to love it.

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Written by Kamurai on Mon Jul 27 2020

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