David Macaulay: Castle

When "Castle" debuted in 1983, it must have seemed a lot less dated when I saw it today. The DVD comes off as incredibly dull and poorly animated and could REALLY use a remake, as the information about how they built castles was fascinating but the video segments were just dreadful. In many ways, this looks like a video bad history teachers show their students--and bore the kids half to death! Now don't misunderstand me. First, I adore castles and have visited several dozen and plan on visiting many more. Secondly, I am a retired history teacher and LOVED teaching about castles--and because of that, I know that this film could have been so much better. If you have interesting material, you STILL need to present it in an interesting fashion of you'll lose your audience--and this one lost me.