For those readers who’ve seen one or more episodes of the TV series Horrible Histories (2009), a Scholastic Productions product intended for the child demographic that sought to teach history through farce, the movie Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans (2019) is an extension. Employing over-emphasis and characterizations potentially irritating to adults, it portrays Nero in Rome, and a Roman legion facing Queen Boudica in England, with a hapless Roman who is banished to that legion, and how he survives, at least for a while, in the land of barbarians, some of whom are in his own legion.
If it’s to your taste, great! We made it through the series with laughter, but the movie was a bit much. So enjoy it if you can.
