Renowned among mankind for all manner of subtlety

THE ODYSSEY

2026

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan

Spoilers: effectively inapplicable, though perhaps high, if this is your first exposure to any modern retelling of the Greek Epic Cycle

Walt Disney, part LXX: All at once, everything looks different

TANGLED

2010

Directed by Byron Howard and Nathan Greno

Written by Dan Fogelman, plus innumerable others, over more than a decade

Spoilers: severe

Sherwood Week: Validating your prioress

THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD

2026

Written and directed by Michael Sarnoski

Spoilers: moderate

Sherwood Week: Boys in the hood

ROBIN HOOD

2018

Directed by Otto Bathurst

Written by Ben Chandler and David James Kelly

Spoilers: moderate

Sherwood Week: Game of Capets and Roberts

ROBIN HOOD

2010

Directed by Ridley Scott

Written by Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris, and Brian Helgeland

Spoilers: moderate, but higher than you'd think possible in a movie described as "the origin of Robin Hood"

Sherwood Week: A jest of Robin Hood

ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS

1993

Directed by Mel Brooks

Written by Evan Chandler, J. David Shapiro, and Mel Brooks

Spoilers: still inapplicable

Sherwood Week: Sheriff don't like it

ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES

1991

Directed by Kevin Reynolds

Written by Pen Densham and John Watson

Spoilers: inapplicable, really

Sherwood Week: He's not the Marian kind

ROBIN AND MARIAN

1976

Directed by Richard Lester

Written by James Goldman

Spoilers: moderate shifting pretty immediately into severe, and I guess you could feel deceived that I said it was ever "moderate"

Sherwood Week: Grinning and baron it

THE BANDIT OF SHERWOOD FOREST

1946

Directed by Henry Levin and George Sherman

Written by Wilfred H. Pettitt and Melvin Levy

THE SON OF ROBIN HOOD

1958

Directed by George Sherman

Written by George S. Slavin and George W. George (no, really)

Spoilers for either: moderate

Sherwood Week: But have you considered all the Angles?

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD

1938

Directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley

Written by Rowland Leigh, Norman Reilly Raine, and Seton I. Miller

Spoilers: N/A

Hamlet's bogus journey

SCARLET

2025

Written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda

Spoilers: moderate

Just what is going on in that piratical mind of yours?

THE SEA HAWK

1940

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller

Spoilers: moderate

Better a thousand times to die than for to live so tormented: dear, but remember it was I who for thy sake did die contented

THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX

1939

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Written by Norman Reilly Raine and Aeneas MacKenzie (based on the play Elizabeth the Queen by Maxwell Anderson)

Spoilers: welllll, how familiar are you with the reign of Elizabeth I?

No, you look like me, which is interesting, if rather impertinent

CROSSED SWORDS

aka The Prince and the Pauper

1977 UK/1978 USA

Directed by Richard Fleischer

Written by Berta Dominguez, Pierre Spengler, and George MacDonald Fraser (based on the novel by Mark Twain)

Spoilers: moderate

Walt Disney, part LXXXIII: Failure, then learning, then death

MOANA 2

2024

Directed by Jason Hand, Dana Ledoux Miller, and David Derrick Jr.

Written by Jared Bush, Bryson Chun, Bek Smith, and Dana Ledoux Miller

Spoilers: moderate

Note that will eventually be removed: "part 83" is an approximate one, but it is where I believe this film will eventually fall once my not-so-diligently pursued retrospective catalog of Walt Disney animation is done sometime in the next couple of months; meanwhile, since I intended to be done with it before Moana 2 came out on streaming, even if I did not succeed in doing so, it's still best to treat it as just another entry in that series, something I've been sub rosa doing with all of Disney's new-release cartoons for the past two or three years anyhow

There is nothing so ruinous to good character as to idle away one's time at some spectacle

GLADIATOR II

2024

Directed by Ridley Scott

Written by Peter Craig and David Scarpa

Spoilers: moderate (arguably high, but not if you've seen the first three minutes of the movie, I'd think)

Walt Disney, part LXI: Not even your average bear

BROTHER BEAR

2003

Directed by Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker

Written by Tab Murphy and the rest of WDFA, I guess, based on an "idea" by Michael Eisner

Spoilers: moderate

Walt Disney, part LVII: His groove! The rhythm by which he lives his life, his pattern of behavior—I threw it off!

THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE

2000

Directed by Mark Dindal

Written by David Reynolds, Chris Williams, and Mark Dindal

Spoilers: moderate

They love whom they penalize; they bring into disrepute whom they applaud; they extol the art, and brand the artist with disgrace

GLADIATOR

2000

Directed by Ridley Scott

Written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson

Spoilers: severe

Walt Disney, part LII: The buck bounds here and there, whilst the doe has narrow eyes, but when the two hares run side by side, how can you tell the female from the male?

MULAN

1998

Directed by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft

Written by Rita Hsaio, Chris Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, Raymond Singer, Eugenia Bostwick-Singer, and Robert D. San Souci

Spoilers: high