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Robin Hood or Robin Of Loxley (Cary Elwes) is captured during the Crusades and is imprisoned at Khalil Prison in Jerusalem. With the help of fellow inmate Asneeze (Isaac Hayes), he escapes from the prison, and frees all the other inmates. He is asked by Asneeze to find his son, Ahchoo (Dave Chappelle, in his acting debut).
When he arrives home in England, he finds Ahchoo and discovers that Prince John (Richard Lewis, whose girlfriend was played by a then-unknown Chase Masterson) has assumed control over England while King Richard (Patrick Stewart) is away fighting in the Crusades and, unbeknownst to Richard, John is abusing his power. Robin Hood meets up with his family's blind servant, Blinkin (Mark Blankfield), the large and ignorant Little John (Eric Allan Kramer) and his friend Will Scarlet O'Hara (Matthew Porretta), whom he recruits to help him regain his father's land and oust Prince John from the throne. On his quest, Robin also attracts the attention of the lovely Maid Marian (Amy Yasbeck), who wants to find the man who has the key to her heart (and chastity belt).
While Robin is training an army, the dyslexic Sheriff of Rottingham, Mervyn (Roger Rees), hires Don Giovanni (Dom DeLuise), to assassinate Robin at the Spring Festival Archery Tournament. Maid Marian hears of the evil plot, and sneaks out of her castle to warn Robin, accompanied by her grumbly German Lady in Waiting Broomhilde. Robin goes to the archery tournament, and makes it to the final round where he unmasks himself. He then makes his shot but loses to his opponent. When Robin notes that the situation is absurd and pulls out a copy of the script to discover that he gets another shot, the Sheriff and Prince John then pull out their own copies and confirm this (much to their annoyance). After winning the tournament, he is arrested, and Marian agrees to marry the Sheriff in exchange for Robin's life, the ceremony also reveals the Sheriff's unimposing first name. Before she can say "I Do", the castle is attacked by the Men in Tights, led by Little John, Ahchoo, Blinkin, and Will. While a battle ensues, Marian is carried off to the tower by the Sheriff, who wants to "deflower" her.
Robin enters the chamber, and the two have an intense swordfight in which the evil sheriff is defeated because Robin, missing his sheath, ran him through. Then the witch Latrine (Tracey Ullman), Prince John's full-time cook and part-time adviser, saves him by giving him a magical lifesaver in exchange for agreeing to marry her. Robin and Marian prepare to celebrate the victory when Broomhilde arrives, insisting they get married first. Before the ceremony can be completed, they are interrupted by King Richard (Patrick Stewart), who has returned from the Crusades. He orders John to be taken away to the Tower of London and announces that, due to the foul stench he's left over the kingdom, all the toilets are to be called "Johns". All being as it should be, Robin and Marian are married and Ahchoo is made the new sheriff of Rottingham. When the night comes, Maid Marian's chastity belt will not open with his key and Robin calls the locksmith.
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