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I saw a post on Tumblr with people (good-naturedly) taking the piss out of this movie and it rapidly became our post-holiday-decorating choice. And...it was cute! Though I was similarly ??? about the hawking—I was going to say that the movie's understanding of knighthood seemed to come entirely from Renaissance Faires, but our local Faire actually has a hawking demonstration! (Funny story, Brian and I once went to see said demonstration on a day when the hawk in question was clearly just Done, so that when the person released it, it decided to fly off across the fairgrounds, which led to the rather entertaining image of a person in period hawking gear running through the crowds holding an iPad with the hawk's GPS signal in front of him.) Brian was also sending screenshots to a friend of ours whose actual specialty is 14th-century armor, which led to some entertaining commentary (though apparently the gauntlets are surprisingly period-accurate...)

And yeah, the kneading-dough scene was excellent—everyone was whooping and hollering at the screen, haha.