★ 6 / 10
Okay, so, this movie is, as the cover
RealZero
Okay, so, this movie is, as the cover should already tell you, fucked up to some degree. ? But I think it's fucked up in a funny way. Ronal is a relatively…
Okay, so, this movie is, as the cover should already tell you, fucked up to some degree. ?
But I think it's fucked up in a funny way. Ronal is a relatively standard "fantasy story": Gather your group of adventurers to get an artifact to defeat the forces of evil.
But it does that with a ton of jokes all on a level of "I'm horny, we're all sexy, let's party and beat up baddies!".
This...doesn't sound as funny as the movie depicts it. But really: Half-naked Barbarians with barely covered butts, Barbarian women that crush enemies with their boobs, talks and jokes about balls, tits and fucking, but a main cast that, mostly, is really friendly and lovable despite their crude humor. Ronal just wants to be useful for his people, Zandra lovingly combines being an awesome, hardcore warrior while searching for someone to love and Alibert, who first seems like someone who just wants party and women, is a kindhearted and loyal friend.
The bad guys are leather-clad BDSM guys that could be straight-up out of "Brütal Legend" and they even sing a song about getting hard in their leather pants.
So, yeah, you have to be able to stand some over-the-top, crude humor and many half naked people and a quite big amount of cock-bulges. But if you are able to do this, it's a really silly, funny fantasy journey.
Elric the elf was basically the only character that was a bit...too much for me, because he's basically just a comical relieve character without any proper personality besides being over-the-top-"elvish".
So, yeah, if you like metal (music), oiled-up-barbarians, sex jokes and battles, you should enjoy this.
Maybe it's because I'm German and grew up with the "Werner" movies and comics, but I enjoyed it. ?
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★ 7 / 10
NOT Lost in Translation--Hilarious!
spud-eleven
The other reviewer apparently wasn't watching the same picture that I was. Ronal the Barbarian is a weakling who must rise to the occasion when all of his…
The other reviewer apparently wasn't watching the same picture that I was. Ronal the Barbarian is a weakling who must rise to the occasion when all of his clanmates are captured for evil purposes, and seeks to liberate them by finding and wielding the Sword of Crane in a fully tongue-in-cheek sendup of sword-and-sorcery pictures, spoofing Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian and loads of imitators in addition to riffing wickedly upon the goofy relationship between classic heavy metal and the fantasy genre. The gags translate very well and if you're a fan of Robert E. Howard like I am you'll have more than a few hearty laughs out of this, especially a scene where Ronal uses an invisibility potion to perform a heist - man, that was funny! I can't understand why the other reviewer dumped on this picture (In Danish with English subtitles - I preferred this; English dubbed version available in some markets).
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Why on earth is this in FRENCH?? Can we PLEASE get the original version??