Picked this one up for viewing after reading
Nathan's review this week.
This movie has all the elements: evil overlord, muscle-bound barbarian heroes, gypsy queen in need of rescuing, a dragon, a magic ruby, magic weapons, it's got it all. Almost like someone said "let's throw all the genre cliches ina blender and sorta write a story around what comes out"
What works well is that their is a fair amount of tongue-in-cheek humour to what's going on. Like Nathan said, "smart people making a knowingly stupid film." it's obvious this is not high cinema and everyone involved seems to know it so they all seem to be just having a good time. The dialog between the Paul brothers and their side-kick is pretty witty and for the most part fun to watch. Alhough I've seen better animatronic animals at the local Chuck E Cheese pizza place then the dragon they give us here
However, again like Nathan points out, the story line falls apart toward the end. The direction and editing go a bit disjointed, but the story just goes off the deep end into places where you swear two writers were trying to outdo each other in writing scenes that made no sense.
Still, on balance, more enjoyable then most Sword and Sandle genre flicks. Doesn't take itself too seriously. Definately better done than any of the Ator movies, and more light-hearted entertaining than "The Sword And The Sorcerer" or "Beastmaster II" (or III)
