Quest of the Delta Knights (1994)

A Major Disappointment

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Blistering performances.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Plot (and I'll keep this brief – no point in dragging it out): Quest of the Delta Knights is the story of a boy, sold into slavery, who becomes the leader of a revolutionary group out to stop the evil Lord Vultare from discovering Archimedes lost storehouse and the knowledge it contains. This knowledge includes a weapon of unlimited power.My plot description almost makes Quest of the Delta Knights sound good. Unfortunately, Quest of the Delta Knights is one big old dog of a movie. Nothing in the movie makes sense. It's a mish-mash of ideas and characters that don't go together. Imageine every sort of pre-16th Century character you can think of and you're bound to find them fighting and living beside each other in this movie. Viking, knights, Italian scholars – it doesn't matter. Also, I've seen this movie several times and I'm not quite sure where it's supposed to be set. Someone mentions England, but there are Viking roaming around. With Leonardo Di Vinci as a character, you might think Italy. Again, how do you explain the Vikings? How about Atlantis? It's anyone's guess. And because the whole thing looks like its straight out a Renaissance festival, maybe the setting is supposed to be California? Makes as much sense as anything else you'll find in the movie. This is just one small example of the numerous inconsistencies and annoyances you'll find in Quest of the Delta Knights. Believe me, there are plenty more.Watching Quest of the Delta Knights, I decided that some people will do just about anything if the price is right. Apparently the producers of this turkey offered David Warner enough money that he was willing to embarrass himself by taking on not one, but two roles. How much money does it take for an actor to agree to star in something like this? Many watchers would also recognize Richard Kind in the role of wise man/Magi Wamthool. But the casting of Kind has to be one of the most puzzling in movie history. I realize they were going for comic relief but they failed miserably. Kind may even have embarrassed himself more than Warner in his mercifully brief performance.I could go on and on, but really there's no point. My opinion of Quest of the Delta Knights should already be painfully obvious. If not, I'll spell it out for you – it's an incredibly bad movie with one ridiculous set-piece after the next. There are few, if any, redeeming moments to be found. I must admit, however, that my experiences with Quest of the Delta Knights have been softened by watching the Mystery Science Theater 3000 version of the movie. The MST3K guys make it a barrel of laughs. So, while I rate the movie a miserable 2/10, I'll give it a 4/5 on my MST3K rating scale.

When I first saw the title to this movie, I thought immediately of the film Animal House. I expected drinking, fighting, road trips, among other things. Actually the two aren't that different, but the Delta Knights movies just sucked. How can anyone say the characters in this movie were acting? It seemed they were playing out a faux village setting for Medieval Times. Anyway I watched the movie a couple of times before rating and commenting on it. I confess to watching the movie with Mike and the Bots, but I don't think watching it the regular way will matter. It still would.....suck.1 out of 10. Painful, and hokey to watch. 7 out of 10 for the MST3K version.PS: The poster before this comment must have had something to do with the movie.

This is one of the worst MST3K'd movies ever, up there with "Prince of Space" and "Zaat" (which, of course, isn't a movie, but . . .). The plot involves an annoying girly boy (Allred) who is attempts to free Europe from the Dark Ages. Also along for the ride are David Warner as the old guy (forget his name, was it Baydool?) who saves him AND the bad guy, Lord Voltaire (an 11th Century Darth Vader with eagle wings on his helmet), Brigid Conley-Walsh as the whore-princess Thena, David Kreig as a woosy Leonardo DaVinci, New Yorker Richard Kind (who doesn't even hide his accent) in cameo as a bumbling wizard who provides some REALLY lame comedy relief ("I'm no good with maps - I can't even find my way to the moat!" Har har), and Olivia Hussey (regardless of age, she's still gorgeous) in another cameo as a queen who has no bearing on the plot, and some guy who screams "I'm coming!" OVER AND OVER AND OVER like Cheech Marin. Throw in inconsistancies with the storyline and historical inaccuracies (see semi-automatic "pistols" of the 13th Century! And the army of pirates, sultans, Vikings, Jesters, et al Voltaire amasses!) and you've got yourself a really lame flick. Not the worst film ever, but then again, it has some pretty stiff competition.The MST3K version was good, if nothing special. Pearl in theater wasn't as funny as it probably should've been, but it worked.One star for "Quest of the Delta Knights"; Seven stars for the MST3K cover."I'M COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

How did Olivia Hussey get roped into this? For that matter, how did David Warner get roped into TWO roles!?Set SOMEWHERE in Europe during medieval times, it's a pastiche of unidentifiable movie genre. Its saving grace is the inspired casting of Richard Kind, thick New York accent and all, as a klutzy wizard - it's worth the price of admission (if you can find a copy!).This movie is simply much worse than it would have been with a coherent plot and intelligent dialogue. Does it border on being so bad that it's good? Yes!