Robin Hood
Episode One
Aiming to fill that Doctor Who teatime gap on Saturday evenings comes the latest incarnation of Robin Hood. More Robin Hoodie than man in tights, leaving out all that mystical "ooh it's the power of the trees" stuff that the Michael "the hooded one" Praed 80s version and swapping it for what passes for rollicking japes in 2006.
Undemanding fun mostly, bit slow, and still like the cartoon one the best, but could pick up. Keith Allen makes an OK Sheriff of Nottingham, camping it up while chewing down on large hunks of meat as Robin gathers his boyband of merry men and starts foiling his unreasonable tax demands etc. Marian's fiesty, everyone else seems to be happy to crack medieval jokes and run around in the forest. All looks like quite a laugh hanging out there; not sure what they're going to do when winter comes…
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