REVIEW: Crusade in Jeans

So what's great about the movie Crusade in Jeans apart from the title? Well, nothing! It's again a time machine movie adapted from the book Crusade in Jeans by Thea Beckham that children used to like as an original concept but now is no big deal. Even Bollywood has tried that concept with Fun2ssh, which unfortunately flopped.

The movie opens with a 15-year-old boy, Dolf Vega (played by Joe Flynn) losing a football match and being generally sad over it. He tries to fix things by going back in time and fixing the match he'd just lost. So what does he do? Of course he gets to use his scientist mother's (played by Emily Watson) prototype time machine. He obviously gets to enter the science lab in the night and though just 15, knows how to operate everything in that machine. He even has his mother's password. (That is exactly when you have to decide to keep your brains out of the movie theatre while watching it.)

So any guesses which time era he travels to? Well as the title subtly suggests… the holy crusades… 13th century. Voila! Dolf lands in the middle of Germany during the Dark Ages. (Your next cue for not trying to put logic into this obvious fantasy movie)

He is attacked by bandits and is saved from them by the beautiful Jenne (the heroine, played by Stephanie Leonidas). She is a part of the children's crusades (a series of fictional and factual events in 1212). Now the children's crusades as you'll then get to know is a group of 8000 children on their way to Jerusalem led by a certain Fr Anselmus (the villain, played by Michael Culkin).