Year:
1984
Studio:
Unversal Pictures
Feature:
2/5
DVD:
0/5
Following the success of Conan the
Barbarian, the disappointing sequel killed the nascent movie
franchise. I watched this movie and it was just a standard fantasy
movie. I do like the Conan elements in the movie: Queen Taramis and
city names and even the much-changed wizard Toth-Amon. I don't mind
that some things were radically changed (enough that Conan fans would
probably hate it). But on the whole the movie didn't click into the
epic that the first movie was.
Music was much more subdued this time. When it did play it was good,
but it wasn't used much. There is still blood and gore, though not as
much as in the first movie. Special effects were pretty bad. There is
probably a bit more magic in this movie and it was all done with
special effects, which were probably good for the time but still not
good enough to have been used in the first place.
Overall probably not a movie worth watching unless you liked the first
movie and just want to watch the sequel.
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