“Parodies are hard to do well, as is shown by the mediocrity of so many recent attempts. No matter how ripe a genre is for satirizing, unless you know how to do it, there are no guarantees.”

— James Berardinelli

Review http://www.reelviews.net/movies/r/robin_tights.html of Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). <br class="br">Two-and-a-half star reviews

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American film critic 1967

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