Starring Owen Benjamin, Christina Ricci, Matthew Lillard, and Louise Griffiths.
All's Faire in Love is about a college football player who, in order to pass a class and stay first string, has to work at a renaissance fair for 3 weeks.
The film opens with Kate (Ricci) in an office for an interview, where she strips out of business clothes and puts on a casual dress and walks out, proclaiming that she is an actress and cannot work a stuffy job. Will (Benjamin) is on the field with his teammates, and they tell him that if he doesn't pass a class, he won't be looked at by the NFL. So Will goes to his teacher, after never having attended the class, and the teacher tells him he'll pass him if he works at a renaissance fair for 3 weeks over the summer. Will arrives and is told he's to become the "fetch boy" and if he wants to pass, he must do everything the queen says, and he must play along, or be fired and fail. He meets Crocket (Lillard), who will be showing him around. He also meets the jester, Roy, and his unicorn hand puppet, Horny (Dave Sheridan), Kate, who is the "fetch girl," and her friend, Jo (Griffiths), who had a past relationship with Crocket. They are all peasants because they've lost the Grand Finale 5 years in a row. There's a villain troupe led by Rank (Chris Wylde), a noble, who do a whole bunch of weird evil things. As the film continues, Will tries to win Kate over as Crocket tries to reverse a curse put on him by a witch involving his, as he tells it, "wenis." The climax of the film revolves around Rank telling Kate that Will was with another noble, the 'princess', somewhat romantically, however, it turns out it was the Roy and Horny. So Kate gets angry, agrees to do the Grand Finale with the nobles, and won't listen to Will until he gets on stage and sings a song for her while playing the piano. There's a fight scene during a rendition of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet involving swords and rope swinging where Rank and his goons are defeated. The queen, and Will's professor, approach and tell the peasants that they have won and will be next years nobles and vice versa, after which Crocket proposes to Jo and they have a renaissance wedding. The end.
All's Faire in Love is obviously a romantic comedy. It's actually pretty cute, all things considered. Benjamin's acting is an abomination, it's like he's trying very hard, and failing even harder, at being Adam Sandler. The fact that Ricci almost convincingly played his love interest shows her own acting ability, even though that, too, was hard to watch. The part of the film where Kate is told of Will's 'infidelity' and she refuses to hear him explain things was far fetched and annoying. What actual human being won't listen to the reasoning of another human they've known for only a few weeks, after being told something about them by another human that they all know is supposed to be evil? Especially since it was a renaissance fair? Meaning, it's happening in modern times and they all know it's all pretend? It was unbelievable, even for a movie like this. Also, did Crocket and Jo really get married, or was that a fair thing? Because they really left that part largely unanswered. The plot holes were noticeable; they held a dog hostage with a crossbow to get Kate to play Juliet. Can I say again, it was all fake? Just weird.
My love for Christina Ricci and Matthew Lillard saved this film from completely dying, I would recommend it to people who enjoy romantic comedies with crude humor. Teenage boys, drunk people, older than teenage but not yet middle aged boys, etc. 4/10.
All's Faire in Love currently holds a 7% critic rating and a 40% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
All's Faire in Love trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkWY6Qdm058
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034090/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alls_faire_in_love/
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