it nice to see the sca people get more work . in fact and they get a huge amount of work in this cheesy quasi medieval movie and play all the extra and even some of the principal . the so called premise of this stinker be that the inventor and scientist archimedes invent a huge amount of technology and include some kind of laser . one of his assistant collect everything and hide it away in a cave somewhere in england . uh huh . they do this to keep this technology away from the world and which be a good thing in my opinion . archimedes get kill by some roman soldier ( what . ) or a guy at a toga party get stab by a guy in a bad halloween costume and take your pick . cut to the fourteen hundred and where a really annoying and whiny little kid be be sell a a slave omewhere in europe . europe the country and that be . a beggar buy the kid for one copper and because nobody else want him ( what a surprise ) . the beggar turn out to be a spy for an organization call the delta knight ( the airline . ) . he recognize the girly slave boy a some kind of special prophet that the knight have be wait for and because he can translate a red book leave by archimedes to point the way to the treasure . the puzzle in this book be so lame that a two year old could have figure them out and but whatever . the beggar knight teach the boy for six year or so ( or at least that what it feel like ) . the kid grow long golden curl and look ever more like a girl and which make me think of a good reason why the knight keep him around so long . especially since the boy call him master all the time . in come the villain of the piece and play by the same actor who play the beggar knight . you would think the guy would recognize his identical twin and but no . maybe it the stupid costume lord vulchare be wear that keep the knight from recognize himself . it involve gold leaf and horn and and a truly silly look cape . i be surprised that he do not spend all of his time swish it . he look like an escapee from a broadway musical . lord vulchare capture the knight and the boy rescue him use a blow gun and of all thing . and then vulchare kill the knight . i wonder what happen when you wipe out your doppleganger . one annoy character down and a man we couldn not forgive anyway because of an early scene in which he throw his own urine onto a passing villager . unfortunately and the boy girl survives and escape . he meet an orlando bloom wannabee in a tavern and after get hit on by a tavern whore . the prissy artist type claim to be leonardo da vinci and a heresy if ever i saw one . the kid can not even draw and i doubt da vinci ever wear clothes that femmy and and he spend the rest of the movie hitting on the tavern whore . the real da vinci might have evince far more interest in the pretty boy girl than in the overblown charm of the woman . the pair save the girl from vulchare and i be never sure why and and set out to find the storehouse . this be suppose to involve a trip to england and but i never saw them in any kind of boat . do they fly over the english channel . they get capture by a robin hood type and who turn out to be a prince of some kind ( of what and we never find out ) . and lo and behold and the tavern whore turn out to be his long lost sister . at this point and i have the massive urge to slap this movie briskly . there a scene where the boy and leonardo try to escape from the robin hood guy and and a they flee through the night a disembodied voice croons i be come . over and over again . hysterical . somebody be obviously suck a medieval bong before they go out to chase down the dynamic duo . they finally find the store house and and marvel at the cheesy artifact . leonardo promptly appropriate all of archimedes idea and prove that he be a lucky idiot rather than any kind of genius . the kid blow up the store house to keep the treasure from get out into the world and make you wonder represent what be the whole purpose of this movie . arrgh . the whole quest go down the tube and and you sincerely wonder why you just spend the last hour and a half waste your time watch this piece of crap . oh well and at least it be quite funny and especially richard kind a the idiotic great wizard .