He ends up in a medeval land ravaged by war and plagued by an evil possessing its people, which they refer to as the deadites. Since Ash has so much experience fighting possessed people, he kicks ass and becomes the savior of the folks holding him captive.

He is sent out to retrieve "The Book of the Dead" for an ancient graveyard, but when he misspeaks the sacred words to remove the book, Ash awakens the army of darkness.

Now it's up to Ash to teach these medeval screwheads--as he calls them--how to defend themselves 21st century style.

The picture's visual style is very exciting, even though many of Raimi's shot selections are un essential and without a reasonable perspective. They are fun to watch though, similar to the work he had done on "Darkman" and "Quick and the Dead."

Campbell was obviously the best choice, reprising his role as Ash, but what makes this film better is Ash is finally allow to be a billie-bad-a**. In the first two pictures, he would consistently get his a** whooped and he's always yelling in pain cause something possessed is always attacking him.

"Army of Darkness" is extremely ridiculous in material though. For instance, when Ash awakens the army of the dead, he is caught on his belly in the cemetery where the dead is awaking. In that situation, he and a series of skeleton hands run through this Three Stooges routine. Of course, I laughed for it, but really..come on…it's friggin' stupid. There are several scenes throughout the picture like this.

The big final battle is very amusing and fun to watch. Some of its scenes may have even lent inspiration for Peter Jackson's choices directing the battle of Helm's Deep in "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers."

The best thing about the movie is the constant bad-a** memorable one liners Campbell is thrown at every corner. Lines like "This is my boom stick!" and "Honey, you got real ugly."

Overall, I think "Army of Darkness" is a carnival of corny screwball material, wrapped in the shell of an exciting and unique horror/fantasy picture. I don't think it is Raimi's best work, but definitely worthy of the cult following it has developed since its theatrical release. Since the "Evil Dead" trilogy is so preposterous to begin with, I think it wraps up the franchise well.

As a bit of trivia, Raimi originally wanted the storyline of "Army of Darkness" to be his second installment, but financers wouldn't go for it. So, he put the time portal in the end of the second movie, with Ash ending up in a medeval land, so if financers WANTED him to make a third it would HAVE to be "Medeval Dead," which Raimi originally wanted to call it.

Benn - Where's the Humanity?

I enjoyed this movie as much as Benn. I will say that the Zucker Brother quality of the humor did not bother as much as it bothered Benn. It was appropriately funny and I always enjoy Bruce Campbell in everything he does, Congo excluded.

This was my first taste of Sam Raimi directing and it did take a little taking used to the way he shot some of his scenes. The camera on the arrow as it heads to the skeleton for example. But it works for this movie because its silly.

Go ahead and watch and enjoy this silly, fun movie from Sam Raimi.