Ren Faire
Ren Faire
6.8100%92%
When the ailing king of America's largest renaissance festival declares his retirement, an epic power struggle ensues between an actor, a former elephant trainer, and a kettle-corn kingpin to claim his throne.
rg9400 reviewedNovember 1, 2024
I'm really baffled as to how this reviewed so well with critics. I think George is kind of an absurd character, but everyone else is really bland. The documentary doesn't do a great job of really analyzing the way the festival is run or what motivates the other characters, instead trying to drum up some sort of Succession style drama, except for the fact that the actual actions the characters are taking are not actually that crazy or impressive or even entertaining. It's just very bland and drawn out, and you can see by the ending that they didn't really have a story to tell. I feel like they were trying to capitalize on the way Tiger King went viral, but at least that story had genuine absurdity driving it. This one simply does not. It has some heavy stylization, but that's about it.