Quest for Camelot (1998)

May 15, 1998 (US) • Fantasy, Animation, Drama, Romance, Family • 86m

Overview

During the times of King Arthur, Kayley is a brave girl who dreams of following her late father as a Knight of the Round Table. The evil Ruber wants to invade Camelot and take the throne of King Arthur, and Kayley has to stop him.

Director

Frederik Du Chau

Writers

Vera Chapman, William Schifrin, David Seidler, Jacqueline Feather, Kirk DeMicco

Top Billed

Jessalyn Gilsig

Keywords

based on novel or book sword villain camelot musical king arthur dragon knights of the round table

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Top Billed Cast

Jessalyn Gilsig

Kayley (voice)

Andrea Corr

Kayley (singing voice)

Cary Elwes

Garrett (voice)

Bryan White

Garrett (singing voice)

Gary Oldman

Ruber (voice)

Eric Idle

Devon (voice)

Don Rickles

Cornwall (voice)

Jane Seymour

Juliana (voice)

Céline Dion

Juliana (singing voice)

Pierce Brosnan

King Arthur (voice)

Steve Perry

King Arthur (singing voice)

Bronson Pinchot

Grifin (voice)

Jaleel White

Bladebeak (voice)

Gabriel Byrne

Lionel (voice)

John Gielgud

Merlin (voice)

Frank Welker

Ayden (voice)

Jack Angel

Additional Voices (voice)

Sarah Freeman

Young Kayley (voice)

Sherry Lynn

Additional Voices (voice)

Mickie McGowan

Additional Voices (voice)

Linda Harmon

Singing Voice (voice) (uncredited)

Crew

Steve Perry

Theme Song Performance

Frederik Du Chau

Director

Richard L. McCullough

Associate Editor

Michael Schlingmann

Animation

Edwin Shortess

Visual Effects

Padraig Collins

Animation

Audrey Stedman

Layout

Jeannine Berger

Post Production Supervisor

Karen Hamrock

Layout

Scott T. Petersen

Animation

Jennifer Yuan

Layout

John Williamson

Animation

Adam Henry

Animation

Gabriele Zucchelli

Animation

Christopher Boyes

Sound Designer

Vera Chapman

Novel

David E. Campbell

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Bub Asman

Sound Effects Editor

John T. Reitz

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

William Schifrin

Screenplay

Stanford C. Allen

Editor

Patrick J. Love

Production Manager

Gregg Rudloff

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Steve Pilcher

Production Design

Julie Hughes

Casting

Barry Moss

Casting

Tom Myers

Sound Designer

Patrick Doyle

Original Music Composer

Adam Johnston

Sound Effects Editor

Kevin Crehan

Supervising Music Editor

Tom King

Animation

Igor Khait

Production Manager

David Seidler

Screenplay

Jacqueline Feather

Screenplay

Kirk DeMicco

Screenplay

Dalisa Cohen

Producer

Korey Coleman

Animation

Uli Meyer

Visual Development

Kenny Ortega

Choreographer

Carole Bayer Sager

Songs

David Foster

Songs

Ricardo Curtis

Animation

Nasos Vakalis

Lead Animator

Chrystal Klabunde

Lead Animator

Alex Williams

Lead Animator

Dan Wagner

Lead Animator

Cynthia Overman

Lead Animator

Stephan Franck

Lead Animator

Mike Nguyen

Lead Animator

Russell Hall

Lead Animator

Lennie K. Graves

Lead Animator

Alyson Hamilton

Lead Animator

Claire Armstrong

Animation

Dale Baer

Animation

Richard Baneham

Animation

Leon Joosen

Animation

David Boudreau

Animation

Ernest Keen

Animation

Adam Burke

Animation

Ken Keys

Animation

Jennifer Cardon

Animation

Juliana Korsborn

Animation

Mike Chavez

Animation

Jaques Muller

Animation

Yarrow Cheney

Animation

Randal Myers

Animation

Jesse Cosio

Animation

Melina Sydney Padua

Animation

Alain Costa

Animation

Anna Saunders

Animation

Bob Davies

Animation

Sean Springer

Animation

Derek Thompson

Animation

Jeff Etter

Animation

Jim Van der Keyl

Animation

Lauren Faust

Animation

Roger Vizard

Animation

Ralph Fernan

Animation

Mark Williams

Animation

Steve Garcia

Animation

Heidi Guedel

Animation

Dan Boulos

Animation

Kent Hammerstrom

Animation

Larry Whitaker

Animation

Cinzia Angelini

Animation

Laurent Benhamo

Animation

Alberto Campos

Animation

Luc Chamberland

Animation

Murray Debus

Animation

Sean Leaning

Animation

Paul Lee

Animation

Quentin Miles

Animation

Stephen Perry

Animation

Thierry Schiel

Animation

Sharon Smith

Animation

Gerben Steenks

Animation

Paul Stone

Animation

Mike Swindall

Animation

Vladimir Todorov

Animation

Jan van Buyten

Animation

Duncan Varley

Animation

Peter Western

Animation

Jesper Møller

Lead Animator

Meelis Arulepp

Animation

Svetlana Bezdomnikova

Animation

Luca Fattore

Animation

Stefan Fjeldmark

Animation

Michael Helmuth Hansen

Animation

Silvia Hoefnagels

Animation

Anne Holmer

Animation

Christian Kuntz

Animation

Jørgen Lerdam

Animation

Anders Madsen

Animation

Martin Madsen

Animation

Fernando Moro

Animation

Janus Sorgenfrey Pedersen

Animation

Ando Tammik

Animation

Frank Gabriel

Animation

Alan Pickett

Animation

Kez Wilson

Animation

Stan Green

Lead Animator

Michel Gagné

Visual Effects

Tony Renis

Lyricist

Alberto Testa

Lyricist

Stephan Franck

Storyboard Artist

James A. Davis

Animation

Reviews

Kamurai

⭐ 4/10

July 18, 2020

Empty watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend.

This movie is a good example of Warner Bros' desperate desire to be like Disney instead of doing their own thing when it comes to animation. It even looks like they lifted a character directly out of "Alice in Wonderland", and maybe there was a legal loophole they had , but it was really unnecessary.

Honestly, most of the premise is a lot of nonsense, and I don't mean to dash dreams and lose the fancy of imaginative creation, but it's not even just fun. They took one of the few popular free stories (King Arthur) that Disney hadn't monopolized ("Sword in the Stone" only covers Arthur as a child, and this is after Camelot was realized), and then added so much magical guff to it that it was hardly recognizable as a version of the original story. This is not a "King Arthur and his Knights" story, it's a Kayley, and you don't know who that is because they made her up.

Even Cary Elwes (Princess Bride: The Man in Black), by far the best actor / character in the movie, seems to have impatient disdain for having to perform the role, and he's probably the 3rd most occurring character.

A knight that Arthur never would have made a knight, that the audience doesn't know, traitors the crown (when Lancelot did it, it was impactful) and kills a knight, that the audience doesn't know or care about, so the main character is launch into adventure on a basis that the audience objectively doesn't care about, and that adventure is further preluded with a Griffon dropping Excaliber into a cursed wood (which would have normally been represented by Merlin and/or the Woad), and having some magic would be fine, but they basically rip off the "Fire Swamp" from "Princess Bride" and add in all these questionably real people with weapons for hands.

Everything I just wrote sounds insane, and that's without the guide being blind or there being a 2-headed dragon that hates itselves.

I'm tired, and you should skip this unless you just have to see the train wreck.

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