Merlin and the Book of Beasts

Directed by Warren P. Sonoda. Written by Brook Durham. Starring James Callis, Laura Harris, and Donald Adams.

Front Street Pictures - 2009

Two Stars of Review! **

Amongst a cast of unknowns you would think that the star of this film would be Battlestar Galactica alumnus James Callis, but the films real center piece is Callis' curiously erratic accent. At first it's a sort of a mumbling lower class British drawl, but other times it seems to shift in pitch and even occasionally adopt a Jamaican affectation.

Dull, poorly directed, drunkenly acted, and cheap looking, it will only hold your interest for as long as you can keep cooking up snarky remarks. The title should be changed to How James Callis Bought a Hot Tub.