Quest for Camelot is a 1998 animated feature film from Warner Bros. Animation, based on the novel The King's Damosel by Vera Chapman, starring the voices of Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Gary Oldman, Eric Idle, Don Rickles, Jane Seymour, Pierce Brosnan, Bronson Pinchot, Jaleel White, Gabriel Byrne, John Gielgud, and Frank Welker, with the singing voices of Céline Dion, Bryan White, and Andrea Corr.
The film is about a young woman named Kayley who wants to be a knight of the Round Table in Camelot like her father Sir Lionel, a blind young man named Garrett who wishes only to be left alone, and their quest to find Excalibur.
Plot
A young girl named Kayley (Sarah Freeman), the daughter of Sir Lionel (Gabriel Byrne), wants to become a knight like her father. Lionel and the other Knights of the Round Table travel to Camelot to hold a counsel. However, one of the knights, Sir Ruber, goes mad with power and attempts to seize King Arthur's sword and throne. Ruber is chased off, but Lionel is killed in the process. During his funeral, Kayley tries to adjust to not having a father.
Ten years later, Kayley (Jessalyn Gilsig) still wants to become a knight. In Camelot, just as the Knights of the Round Table talk about how nothing bad has happened recently, a griffin who is working for Ruber, breaks into Camelot and steals the sword Excalibur. Merlin (John Gielgud) then casts a spell and a silver-winged falcon appears and fights the griffin in an aerial battle. The Griffin then drops it into the Forbidden Forest. The knights send out the word about Excalibur's theft, inspiring Kayley to go out and find Excalibur and return it to Camelot. Before she can do so, Sir Ruber arrives to take over her village and uses black magic, a green potion bearing the name Acme, ("bought from some witches," he claims) to combine his human henchmen (and a chicken) with their own weapons, creating mechanical warriors. As Kayley escapes, the griffin returns and informs Ruber that Excalibur has been lost. Kayley flees from Ruber's pursuing henchmen and enters the Forbidden Forest, where she is saved by a blind hermit named Garrett (Cary Elwes) and his pet Ayden, a silver-winged falcon (Frank Welker). Ayden knows the location of Excalibur, having fought the griffin over it. Kayley tells Garrett of Excalibur and convinces him to join her in retrieving it.
Bladebeak, the chicken-axe hybrid that Ruber created, reports to Ruber about Kayley's escape. Meanwhile, Kayley and Garrett meet the two-headed dragon Devon and Cornwall (Eric Idle and Don Rickles), who joins the duo on their journey. Ruber finally catches up with the group and wounds Garret, but Kayley manages to fend him off long enough to get Garrett somewhere safe. After mending Garrett's wounds (with a leaf), the group travels to a cave, where they find that Excalibur has been taken by a rock ogre. They manage to retrieve Excalibur from the ogre just as Ruber's group shows up.
With Excalibur at hand, Kayley and the others return to Camelot. Garrett stays behind, saying he doesn't belong in Camelot with the others, and goes back into the Forbidden Forest, despite his love for Kayley. However, Ruber and his henchmen catch up and steal Excalibur, which Ruber magically fuses with his arm. Kayley is taken hostage and is used as leverage for her mother to get Ruber into Camelot. Upon arrival at Camelot, Bladebeak betrays Ruber and frees Kayley. She and Garrett manage to corner Ruber at the stone that Excalibur was originally pulled out of and trick him into sticking the sword back into it. This causes Ruber to be destroyed and his henchmen to be returned to normal. Kayley and Garrett are knighted and they are married as well.
