Amazon.co.uk Review
The dark, brooding tone of Conan the Barbarian is replaced in this rousing sequel by a lighter, more humorous tone and one of the campiest casts ever assembled. In Conan the Destroyer, our massively muscular hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is assigned by a duplicitous queen (Sarah Douglas) to escort a virgin princess (Olivia d'Abo) on a treacherous trek to a crystal palace where they will retrieve a priceless gemstone. Basketball champ and self-described Lothario Wilt Chamberlain plays Bombaata, a warrior sent on a secret mission to kill Conan, and the androgynous Grace Jones plays Zula, a wild woman who becomes Conan's loyal ally. Some consider this sequel a disappointment but the film makes no apologies for its silliness, and that's the key to its success as gloriously pulpy entertainment. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
Destroyed !!!.......2007-05-28
Sadly, sequels are rarely as good as the original, and with Conan the Barbarian being such a good movie, this one had to produce something special to live up to its predecessor.
Well, we still got Arnie as Conan, so that's a good start. And we have one of the other cast members from the first flick, in the shape of Mako. But that's about where any good stuff ends.
The first death knell for this movie is the casting. We have Tracey Walter as Malak, a thief side-kick of Conan's (whatever happened to Gerry Lopez's Subotai character?) Tracey does a very good impression of Peter Lorre...throughout the whole film. Then there's Grace Jones (perhaps the original singer-turned-actor) as some kind of demented she-warrior. All she is really good at is glaring at people and hissing like a snake and she does this......throughout the whole film. Sarah Douglas as the obligatory evil queen...the only thing she seems to be queen of is sequels (Superman 2, Puppetmaster 3, Beastmaster 2 etc.) and Olivia D'Abo, who is just irritatingly helpless and annoying here.
The plot is trivial and the dialogue poor and some of the effects are lamentably bad (look for the island in the lake and the "man-ape"). Also, did I mention that Grace Jones is just horrible and hisses a lot? I did? Oh well, it bears repeating..
All in all, this is a cash-in movie, designed to rake in some easy money on the back of the original and not really caring much about a plot or good actors. Even Arnie, the world's best actor at not saying many lines, is hampered by having too much dialogue.
Avoid it unless you want a laugh.
Not as good as the first film. .......2007-05-24
This film is no where near as good as the first film. However, 'Destroyer' is worth watching for the opening sequence. It's one of the best most epic start to any film that I've ever seen. Great triumphant rousing music score as masked horsemen ride across the horizon, fantastic...it's just a shame that the film goes down hill after that.
Right in its big ugly face!.......2005-06-06
I caught this movie on cable the other day. It was an amazing fantasy-action movie with Arnold Shwartsanegger (sp?) in it as a powerful warrior. It's got all of the sword-fighting and adventure and magic that you could ask for. However, the best part of the entire movie is when Conan the Destroyer gets drunk and confronts a camel. The camel spits a foul looking foam all over Conan the Destroyer's face. He gives it this amazing look and then POW!!! He throws a hay-maker style punch right to the camel's face and knocks it out cold!!! This has got to be one of my favorite scenes in just about any movie, ever. This 5-star punch makes this a Tuttleman approved, 5 star movie. It makes me want to punch a camel SOOOO bad in real life. I made a promise to myself that I will knock out a camel before I die, even if it's a zoo-camel that just happens to "get too close" to the cage-bars. And no, I'm not kidding or trying to be funny.
In conclusion, when I make my video compilation of the top 100 greatest action scenes ever laid to film, this will be right up there along side that part in Resident Evil where the girl kicks a dog out of mid-air with a slow-motion kick to the chin. And also a scene from a movie Lyle showed me called "Zombie" where a zombie leaps over-board off of a boat and takes on the great-white-shark, one-on-one. Also that part in Crocodile-Dundee where Crocidile Dundee wrestles a crocodile and stabs it through the skull with a bowie-knife. I love animal-action scenes where people fight animals in movies!!! It's one of my favorite kinds of conflicts: Man vs. Animal!!!
Alright, I'm highly inspired to go work on that tape now. I don't want to write anymore right now so go do something else please. Later.
Cardboard and plastic.......2005-03-26
Some films age badly. This is one of those. First we discover that the filming, the special effects, the plot and many other purely technical elements are poor today after twenty years of tremendous film technology improvements. Second the story is not even good barbaric romance. It is violent by principle. It is hardly magic with so poor special effects that we are amazed at the fascination some of them performed on us when the film came out. The psychologies of the characters are not even caricatures, that would be flattery. They are just unreal and unbelievable. And there is no « suspension of one's disbelief » when these human puppets act like clods in the middle of a crystal store. No human feelings. No sentiments. No human touch. It is too gross to engross us with any fascination. We remain dubitative in front of the plywood rocks and the woollen chains. We definitely see the zipper in the back of the monster and even in the front. Go back to the comic strip it has retained its mesmerizing power.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
come on people.......2005-01-14
this film is wicked the fantasy aspect of it is better the first one, i mean what kind of a baddy is a snake compared to the wicked war god of the second one i think u lot are giving it to much stick yeah the princess was annoying but she was hot and grace jones gave u something to smile about. and the wicked theme music gives it a cool sense to each battle. i think im the only one but i know this films better than the first one.
Amazon.co.uk Review
The dark, brooding tone of Conan the Barbarian is replaced in this rousing sequel by a lighter, more humorous tone and one of the campiest casts ever assembled. In Conan the Destroyer, our massively muscular hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is assigned by a duplicitous queen (Sarah Douglas) to escort a virgin princess (Olivia d'Abo) on a treacherous trek to a crystal palace where they will retrieve a priceless gemstone. Basketball champ and self-described Lothario Wilt Chamberlain plays Bombaata, a warrior sent on a secret mission to kill Conan, and the androgynous Grace Jones plays Zula, a wild woman who becomes Conan's loyal ally. Some consider this sequel a disappointment but the film makes no apologies for its silliness, and that's the key to its success as gloriously pulpy entertainment. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
Destroyed !!!.......2007-05-28
Sadly, sequels are rarely as good as the original, and with Conan the Barbarian being such a good movie, this one had to produce something special to live up to its predecessor.
Well, we still got Arnie as Conan, so that's a good start. And we have one of the other cast members from the first flick, in the shape of Mako. But that's about where any good stuff ends.
The first death knell for this movie is the casting. We have Tracey Walter as Malak, a thief side-kick of Conan's (whatever happened to Gerry Lopez's Subotai character?) Tracey does a very good impression of Peter Lorre...throughout the whole film. Then there's Grace Jones (perhaps the original singer-turned-actor) as some kind of demented she-warrior. All she is really good at is glaring at people and hissing like a snake and she does this......throughout the whole film. Sarah Douglas as the obligatory evil queen...the only thing she seems to be queen of is sequels (Superman 2, Puppetmaster 3, Beastmaster 2 etc.) and Olivia D'Abo, who is just irritatingly helpless and annoying here.
The plot is trivial and the dialogue poor and some of the effects are lamentably bad (look for the island in the lake and the "man-ape"). Also, did I mention that Grace Jones is just horrible and hisses a lot? I did? Oh well, it bears repeating..
All in all, this is a cash-in movie, designed to rake in some easy money on the back of the original and not really caring much about a plot or good actors. Even Arnie, the world's best actor at not saying many lines, is hampered by having too much dialogue.
Avoid it unless you want a laugh.
Not as good as the first film. .......2007-05-24
This film is no where near as good as the first film. However, 'Destroyer' is worth watching for the opening sequence. It's one of the best most epic start to any film that I've ever seen. Great triumphant rousing music score as masked horsemen ride across the horizon, fantastic...it's just a shame that the film goes down hill after that.
Right in its big ugly face!.......2005-06-06
I caught this movie on cable the other day. It was an amazing fantasy-action movie with Arnold Shwartsanegger (sp?) in it as a powerful warrior. It's got all of the sword-fighting and adventure and magic that you could ask for. However, the best part of the entire movie is when Conan the Destroyer gets drunk and confronts a camel. The camel spits a foul looking foam all over Conan the Destroyer's face. He gives it this amazing look and then POW!!! He throws a hay-maker style punch right to the camel's face and knocks it out cold!!! This has got to be one of my favorite scenes in just about any movie, ever. This 5-star punch makes this a Tuttleman approved, 5 star movie. It makes me want to punch a camel SOOOO bad in real life. I made a promise to myself that I will knock out a camel before I die, even if it's a zoo-camel that just happens to "get too close" to the cage-bars. And no, I'm not kidding or trying to be funny.
In conclusion, when I make my video compilation of the top 100 greatest action scenes ever laid to film, this will be right up there along side that part in Resident Evil where the girl kicks a dog out of mid-air with a slow-motion kick to the chin. And also a scene from a movie Lyle showed me called "Zombie" where a zombie leaps over-board off of a boat and takes on the great-white-shark, one-on-one. Also that part in Crocodile-Dundee where Crocidile Dundee wrestles a crocodile and stabs it through the skull with a bowie-knife. I love animal-action scenes where people fight animals in movies!!! It's one of my favorite kinds of conflicts: Man vs. Animal!!!
Alright, I'm highly inspired to go work on that tape now. I don't want to write anymore right now so go do something else please. Later.
Cardboard and plastic.......2005-03-26
Some films age badly. This is one of those. First we discover that the filming, the special effects, the plot and many other purely technical elements are poor today after twenty years of tremendous film technology improvements. Second the story is not even good barbaric romance. It is violent by principle. It is hardly magic with so poor special effects that we are amazed at the fascination some of them performed on us when the film came out. The psychologies of the characters are not even caricatures, that would be flattery. They are just unreal and unbelievable. And there is no « suspension of one's disbelief » when these human puppets act like clods in the middle of a crystal store. No human feelings. No sentiments. No human touch. It is too gross to engross us with any fascination. We remain dubitative in front of the plywood rocks and the woollen chains. We definitely see the zipper in the back of the monster and even in the front. Go back to the comic strip it has retained its mesmerizing power.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
come on people.......2005-01-14
this film is wicked the fantasy aspect of it is better the first one, i mean what kind of a baddy is a snake compared to the wicked war god of the second one i think u lot are giving it to much stick yeah the princess was annoying but she was hot and grace jones gave u something to smile about. and the wicked theme music gives it a cool sense to each battle. i think im the only one but i know this films better than the first one.
Amazon.co.uk Review
The dark, brooding tone of Conan the Barbarian is replaced in this rousing sequel by a lighter, more humorous tone and one of the campiest casts ever assembled. In Conan the Destroyer, our massively muscular hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is assigned by a duplicitous queen (Sarah Douglas) to escort a virgin princess (Olivia d'Abo) on a treacherous trek to a crystal palace where they will retrieve a priceless gemstone. Basketball champ and self-described Lothario Wilt Chamberlain plays Bombaata, a warrior sent on a secret mission to kill Conan, and the androgynous Grace Jones plays Zula, a wild woman who becomes Conan's loyal ally. Some consider this sequel a disappointment but the film makes no apologies for its silliness, and that's the key to its success as gloriously pulpy entertainment. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews:
Destroyed !!!.......2007-05-28
Sadly, sequels are rarely as good as the original, and with Conan the Barbarian being such a good movie, this one had to produce something special to live up to its predecessor.
Well, we still got Arnie as Conan, so that's a good start. And we have one of the other cast members from the first flick, in the shape of Mako. But that's about where any good stuff ends.
The first death knell for this movie is the casting. We have Tracey Walter as Malak, a thief side-kick of Conan's (whatever happened to Gerry Lopez's Subotai character?) Tracey does a very good impression of Peter Lorre...throughout the whole film. Then there's Grace Jones (perhaps the original singer-turned-actor) as some kind of demented she-warrior. All she is really good at is glaring at people and hissing like a snake and she does this......throughout the whole film. Sarah Douglas as the obligatory evil queen...the only thing she seems to be queen of is sequels (Superman 2, Puppetmaster 3, Beastmaster 2 etc.) and Olivia D'Abo, who is just irritatingly helpless and annoying here.
The plot is trivial and the dialogue poor and some of the effects are lamentably bad (look for the island in the lake and the "man-ape"). Also, did I mention that Grace Jones is just horrible and hisses a lot? I did? Oh well, it bears repeating..
All in all, this is a cash-in movie, designed to rake in some easy money on the back of the original and not really caring much about a plot or good actors. Even Arnie, the world's best actor at not saying many lines, is hampered by having too much dialogue.
Avoid it unless you want a laugh.
Not as good as the first film. .......2007-05-24
This film is no where near as good as the first film. However, 'Destroyer' is worth watching for the opening sequence. It's one of the best most epic start to any film that I've ever seen. Great triumphant rousing music score as masked horsemen ride across the horizon, fantastic...it's just a shame that the film goes down hill after that.
Right in its big ugly face!.......2005-06-06
I caught this movie on cable the other day. It was an amazing fantasy-action movie with Arnold Shwartsanegger (sp?) in it as a powerful warrior. It's got all of the sword-fighting and adventure and magic that you could ask for. However, the best part of the entire movie is when Conan the Destroyer gets drunk and confronts a camel. The camel spits a foul looking foam all over Conan the Destroyer's face. He gives it this amazing look and then POW!!! He throws a hay-maker style punch right to the camel's face and knocks it out cold!!! This has got to be one of my favorite scenes in just about any movie, ever. This 5-star punch makes this a Tuttleman approved, 5 star movie. It makes me want to punch a camel SOOOO bad in real life. I made a promise to myself that I will knock out a camel before I die, even if it's a zoo-camel that just happens to "get too close" to the cage-bars. And no, I'm not kidding or trying to be funny.
In conclusion, when I make my video compilation of the top 100 greatest action scenes ever laid to film, this will be right up there along side that part in Resident Evil where the girl kicks a dog out of mid-air with a slow-motion kick to the chin. And also a scene from a movie Lyle showed me called "Zombie" where a zombie leaps over-board off of a boat and takes on the great-white-shark, one-on-one. Also that part in Crocodile-Dundee where Crocidile Dundee wrestles a crocodile and stabs it through the skull with a bowie-knife. I love animal-action scenes where people fight animals in movies!!! It's one of my favorite kinds of conflicts: Man vs. Animal!!!
Alright, I'm highly inspired to go work on that tape now. I don't want to write anymore right now so go do something else please. Later.
Cardboard and plastic.......2005-03-26
Some films age badly. This is one of those. First we discover that the filming, the special effects, the plot and many other purely technical elements are poor today after twenty years of tremendous film technology improvements. Second the story is not even good barbaric romance. It is violent by principle. It is hardly magic with so poor special effects that we are amazed at the fascination some of them performed on us when the film came out. The psychologies of the characters are not even caricatures, that would be flattery. They are just unreal and unbelievable. And there is no « suspension of one's disbelief » when these human puppets act like clods in the middle of a crystal store. No human feelings. No sentiments. No human touch. It is too gross to engross us with any fascination. We remain dubitative in front of the plywood rocks and the woollen chains. We definitely see the zipper in the back of the monster and even in the front. Go back to the comic strip it has retained its mesmerizing power.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
come on people.......2005-01-14
this film is wicked the fantasy aspect of it is better the first one, i mean what kind of a baddy is a snake compared to the wicked war god of the second one i think u lot are giving it to much stick yeah the princess was annoying but she was hot and grace jones gave u something to smile about. and the wicked theme music gives it a cool sense to each battle. i think im the only one but i know this films better than the first one.
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