Diego: Do you know how to use that? Alejandro: Yeah. Pointy end goes into the other man. Diego sighs. Diego: This is going to take a lot of work. What about you, Galadriel? Galadriel: Stab, twist, gut! Diego stares flatly. Diego: Go home, Galadriel.

"The sequel was so bad, what happened?" The Zorro sequel was written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Those two have been a cancer for decades.

"You think stealing a horse makes you worthy enough to wear that mask" a line of thinking Batwoman could learn from. "You think stealing a suit makes you worthy enough to wear it?"

My favorite line in this movie is when after admitting he was about to execute seveal innocent bystandards just to draw out Zorro, Don Rafael then orders his men: "Get the children off the street!...Children should never have to see the things we do." Despite being genuinely evil Rafael has several moments in this movie that reveals his own twisted moral code. Makes him feel real.

That modern Zorro trailer physically hurt me. Why Goger Why!!

"Wait a second, this isnt the Zorro movies I grew up with" Turns out there's a shit ton of Zorro movies from everywhere. Huh.

"War, war stabs twists and guts" - Bilbadriel, queen of Loth l'oreal

Every time Orlando Bloom isn't on screen, all of the other character should be asking "Where's Orlando Bloom?"

Az's face in the bald man edit had me rolling!

Thank you EFAP for covering one of my favorite movies of all time. Heck it’s my favorite superhero film. When I think of Martin Campbell at his best I think of this movie. Antonio Banderas, Hopkins and the cast are amazing; the writing is top notch and the fight choreography. It’s everything you want in a film like this. In fact this is the best Batman Beyond movie we have that hasn’t been made in live action. Seriously WB copy and paste this type of story if you want to make it. An easy 9/10 for me. Seriously folks if you haven’t seen it, please watch it.

Ah yes, the times before Fringy’s iconic “bringing the Fring”

The similarities with Batman are because the character was partly inspired by old "pulp heroes" like Zorro and The Shadow. In some Batman itterations, the movie Bruce and his parents see before they die is even "The Mark of Zorro", implying that the Batman persona was inspired by them in-universe as well.

"Oh no, the peasants are revolting." - MauLer "You said it. They stink on ice!" - Mel Brooks; 'History of the World: Part I' (1981)

Metal's joke about claiming the Moon almost killed me, I had to keep pausing the video to laugh about it whenever it came back to mind. Why was that so perfect Edit: evert time someone likes this I look at my phone and laugh out loud, can't even begin to explain why to anyone around... 1:05:02 this deserves a timestamp

It's adorable how Rags reacts to Catherine Zeta Jones every time she's on camera.

After listening to the EFAP Highlight today that covered Luke in TLJ, by that guy's logic, Zorro getting old simply means his morality should be a complete 180 and be ready to commit genocide because...age.

1:14:02 Mauler was talking over it, but in the prologue when Joaquin and Alejandro are in the wagon, the owner of the wagon makes a comment about how he hated making coffins for their parents, and that he’d hate to make coffins for them, or something like that.

Metal predicts a 2024 release from back before the Resident Evil EFAPs, the spiders must be with him

I didn’t realize until later that Antonio Banderas is a funny actor. He’s a good lead but he does comedy very well.

My little boy brain was so confused when Antiono tried making a Z after the fight with Catherine Zetta Jones, and stripped her. Now that’s a payoff.

"There are a lot of connections with Batman and Zorro, probably." Yeah, it's almost like Batman was inspired by Zorro and the Shadow or something XD

I love this movie so much. My parents showed it to me when I was 5, and it blew me away. Back in high school, when I took Drama class, I convinced my group to perform the scene where Montero comes to take Diego away and kills Esperanza, and we killed it! Thank you EFAP for covering this movie that has a special place in my heart.

"He's Batman with a sword in old-y times." Brilliant historical analysis from Shad 😂😂😂

I feel like Diego escaped prison when he did specifically because Raphael's return Gabe him something to live and fight for. He cares enough to escape when revenge against Raphael is possible again

I remember seeing this and Rush Hour on the same weekend with my dad. Damn.

I don't use this term lightly or often, however, Catherine Zeta-Jones in this movie is EXQUISITE 😍 I remember being a young teen girl thinking "when I grow up, I want to look like THAT" 😅

1:28:20 What makes this hilarious is that Don Rafael still imagines Zorro as de la Vega. “Young and vigorous” are not words used to describe that old retiree, and… good grief, isn’t de la Vega her actual FATHER?! What the heck kind of revenge fantasy is this?!

I really love the mask of Zorro from the sense of it being both a coming of Age and Passing of the Torch all tied up in a revenge plot story by the time the story starts Proper Diego is too old to be Zorro anymore and he wants to kill Raphael, Alejandro wants to kill captain love for murdering his brother being that their goals are entwined they agree to work together, but Diego doesn't just hand over the Zorro guise to Alejandro until he proves himself worthy of it he trains him and makes him work for it, teaching him how Zorro acts, since its not just about being a good sword fighter, its why Zorro fights and what he fights for that really matters and some trivia that I know: the flower coverings was incase there were bugs in the flowers and during Elena and Zorro's Stable fight, Antonio actually got a bit turned on doing it hence why they kind of avoid his crotch in several shots

Mauler in a dark location “……………Hello?!” (Wind blowing) XD

This movie would NEVER be made today. The sword strip fight alone.

Metal made that "2024 is lit" joke with NO CLUE how true it would become

i refuse to believe that new zorro trailer is real

RIP Orlando Bloom... you're expressionless face will be missed

what i love about this movie is how the action mostly remains very personal. So many modern movies just have so much unnecessary bloat, too many people on screen, to many explosions, to many distractions. When you get climaxes like this, where it's very much good vs. bad guy just straight up face to face, it's just so much more engaging well, that and Catherine Zeta-Jones.... ho-boy....

First 15 minutes, Simpsons reference. Fringy is here with us in spirit.

I love how Anthony Hopkins, in the scene where they're talking about turning Alejandro into a gentleman, is clearly just fuckin' around off camera blowing smoke rings. You can see it when the camera cuts back to him when he says "yeeeeeesssss". 🤣👍

Mexican Gandalf at Gates of Maria: "Yo quero Taco Bell?" Gates open

As explained "Zorro" is Spanish for fox.

That sight gag of a dead Friar Tuck got me rolling xD Also didn't know how much I needed the image of Gandalf wearing a sombrero until today Top-tier editing from Goger

The rapier did not necessarily have to have cut off Joachim's head to make the necklace fall free. Movie necklaces are VERY breakable. The most common way of removing a necklace on-screen is to grab the object on the necklace, and pull it forward, causing the necklace to break around the wearer's neck. Someone else often puts it on right away with no depicted repair to the break.

One of my all-time fav action-adventure movies! Been waiting on this reaction for months. Catherine Zeta-Jones was one my first silver screen crushes growing up. I never tire of that sword fight scene with Antonia Banderas duel wielding sabers- BAD.ASS!

Kudos to the editor, those were some really well timed jokes throughout.

How could you have an EFAP movies without Orlando Bloom?

Turns out every movie ages like fine wine, when everything these days starts as sludge.

I rented the vhs of mask of zorro so many times that the rental place just let me keep it the last time I checked it out 😂

15:48 Fun fact, Zorro was a direct inspiration for Batman, hence why there's been many references over the years to 'The Mark of Zorro' being the film that Bruce and his parents leave before being gunned down.

I find it funny how they bring up the Batman comparisons when the original Zorro pulp fiction stories were the origin of the whole “masked hero with a secret identity” trope. Essentially Batman and many of the comic book super heroes were originally inspired by Zorro.

Original Zorro didn't bother escaping before now because he was dead inside. He lost everything and Raphael was back in Spain. Seeing Raphael again reignited his spirit of revenge. Now he can escape and kill Raphael in the same day. To Shad: Zorro's style is not to attack in anger. He uses his opponent's anger against them. The trickster taunting style doesn't work if you are also angry.

1:13:00 Fun fact: Captain Love, Joaquin Murrieta and Three-fingered Jack were all real people, and Captain Love really did chop off Murrieta's head as well as Three-fingered Jack's hand and keep them in jars of alcohol. I don't think he ever drank from it though.

I've never watched Legend of Zorro and never going to either - this is how much I love this particular movie.

*The Zorro text is better than the Star Wars crawl.* Change my mind.

Holy crap I just discovered this channel... it's like MST3K... AWESOME! I love it 😃

Absolute banger! One of my earliest cinema experiences, and one of my fondest.

I remember loving this movie so much as a child I’d draw Z’s in everything, dusty furniture? Z. Dirt? Z.

1:10:04 ^.-.^ Ooo! I like how the only ones whom dinae react to the blast in fear are Zorro and Captain Love. Good touch. 9:06 Also yes, that Z was on a coffin at the beginning, the lads were hiding in the undertaker’s wagon, because Don Rafael was setting this execution as a trap for Zorro. ^.-.^ Also you did kinda gloss over it a bit, but I’mma say that the wee moment between Zorro and Three Fingered Jack as he lay dying; is a part I really appreciate. That brief moment of recognition by Jack and the little comforting smile he gave, so that he knows he didn’t die alone.. It makes me misty eyed every time. ^.-.^

The peasants are revolting! Also, they're turning on me!

1:39:00 it's worth mentioning, the revolver Kiefer carries in this had six shots, but then each cylinder had to be reloaded in a similar manner to the rifles.

Such a good movie. I grew up with the Guy Williams Zorro but this is probably one of the best takes on the character.

I remember being extremely excited about this movie coming out as an early teen. The teaser trailers were my 1st true exposure when he came on the screen in silhouette and slashed the screen with 3 cuts. Such a fun movie and a great example of a summer blockbuster. ^-^

They joke that if Zorro was made today it'd be a woman, but in the early 00's there was a tv series called The Queen Of Swords and it was basically genderbent Zorro. Wasn't half bad. Also, apparently Anthony Hopkins loved working on this movie because he got to do his own fight scenes. As he was getting older, he wasn't put in action heavy roles, so he got a real kick out of doing the sword fights.

My favourite childhood movie. I even dressed as Zorro for Halloween.

I love how Shad claims that Antonio Banderas has no range and the very next scene showcases his incredible range 🤣

No Orlando Bloom = No Sargon :/

I have seen every episode of the late 50s Zorro TV series and it is indeed excellent.

Zorro is Spanish for ‘fox’. Sorro is Spanish for ‘sorro’… which isn’t a word.

Still to this day an easy 8/10 film. Barely any CGI, a cohesive plot with great characters who are well acted, amazing stuntwork and good, varied choreography, all building to an explosive ending scene with an actual purpose, that ties its ending threads together. I doubt we'll see things like this again, with the way Hollywood is going.

Good, this arch has a LEGENDARY movie in it. Don blessed us.

@7:39 Interesting thing you point out Mauler, this movie came out a year after Batman & Robin, Batman is a copied from the Shadow, and the Shadow is derived from Zorro.

I'd love for them to watch the original silent film Mark of Zorro.

I think MauLer is zorro.

"Retire!!??... You are too good looking to retire "🐈👢

The line right after, "he was young, and vigorous", is solid gold. Shame it didn't make it in. xD

The insert of the Badger Friar Tuck just made my morning 😆 also, isn’t pretending to be a body sewn into a bag exactly how Edmond escaped from Chateau D’if in the Count of Monte Cristo?

"This is her fetish" Actually kinda, when she was on Graham Norton, she said her and Michael Douglas(her husband) play strip golf at country clubs while traveling. So there are likely people who have seen CZJ and Antman stripping, and likely people who didnt look at rough to notice the rough.

The ninja sound whenever characters teleport is becoming one of my favorite EFAP memes

Zoro's originally name was Gary, but carving the G into his foe's shirts was easier said than done....

This Movie is one of those I can actually rememeber watching as a kid. It was SO. MUCH. FUN. Also I'd love the Crew to take a look at "The Phantom." (1996)

This is my favorite movie of all time. Its ine of those childhood films that aged like wine and just got better

The reason Diego waits 20 years is because Raphael left Mexico. Which is backed with the fact that he had that grand celebration for returning where we see Elena. And when he went to the jail, he was under cover so he wouldn't give away he arrived early. Now you could ask, why did Diego spend the 20yrs in jail, instead of hiding somewhere? And I'd argue, and I believe Hopkins would argue. That Diego both needed to grieve for the loss of his family, and punish himself because he blames himself for his wife's death. So, he chose to stay in jail until Raphael returned to Mexico. Or maybe! The scene in the jail closing in on Hopkins eyes, signified he had lost who he was, but after seeing Raphael the fire was ignited again.

ive always loved how over the top the swordplay was in the film at times. so much coincidence at times as well but i really did love it.

Let’s go! This year so far is some of my favorite EFAP episodes, I’m so excited for what you guys have in store! Really top notch editing and some of the best takes online!!

I really love the edits in this, adds another layer of fun to the whole experince.

Oh man, imagen how spoiled we were back in the days.. always thought this was mid. Now looking back and seeing such amazing acting the depth even in a film like this.. i miss old times

Top notch editing as always, thank you for reminding us what we are missing now

my childhood go to film. must pick this up again

This is honestly one of my favorite movies of all time, man. Saw it as a kid and it blew my mind. I even dressed up as Zorro for Halloween when I was little. Awesome action scenes, memorable score, the sets are great, and I love all of the performances. And we really don't get action/adventure movies like this these days. I'm with Mauler, I wish films like this were the standard for modern movies.

I used to watch the OG zorro series (the black and white one) when i was a kid! Haven't heard anyone bring it up in, probably 20+ years! Cheers shad! Thanks for reminding me of the good ol' days!

Disrespecting Bra'tac is shameful.

15:50 i can just hear Razorfist saying "you dont say. That and a certain Shadowy figure"

Back when villains met satisfying endings. We didn’t know how good we had it.

Fun facts: Zorro inspired Batman, not the inverse! Zorro is a Spanish noble specifically, so Twitter can kick rocks. Zorro has been in film since 1920. The maid lady was speaking a native language. Dunno which one tho. This was more common at the time due to the mestizo (mixed)peasantry. The American variations of Spanish still include native words and inflections. “Don” means lord in Spanish. So the Don is indisputably the Lord.

The next western based EFAP Movies I wanna see is Wild Wild West. I know they’ve watched it but it would be such a fun video to watch since it was another film I remember coming out during the late 90’s.

It’s funny you bring up the Zorro and Batman connection, since in most contemporary versions of Batman’s origin they have it so Bruce and his parents were watching The Mask of Zorro at the Theater before they died

“If I had a nickel for every time I’ve shot this man while he was flying through the air….. I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.”

Efap thank you for the covering this movie that has been baked into my memory as a wee lad, my father blessed me with this action blast of a film years back and I’m thankful it holds up to all standards

"Who Killed Captain Phasma" Daym Rags, pulling the deep references! I approve.

The boys making all the references to Batman and failing to mention that the play that Bruce and his parents were seeing was "The Mask of Zorro" smh.

Oh man where he just instantly stabs the guy who accidentally shot zorros wife - here is a man who has worked hard to get to a point where he is able to kill his underlings with impunity - and damn it, he’s going to make use of it!

In my head canon, as Zeta Jones cradles the now dead Anthony Hopkins. You can hear a muffled Anthony hopkins say "oh jeez the boobs!"

Nothing gives me more joy in life than hearing the batwoman soundtrack and “what’d you bring me” at the end of these