2011 · comedy
National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus
Directed by Jeff Kanew1h 27m2011
A clueless Trojan general must meet an unbeatable Greek warrior on the battlefield.
Our read: National Lampoon's The Legend of Awesomest Maximus (2011) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- cold
- intimate
- funny
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