Produced in Denmark (and originally voiced in Danish) by the guys who made a very popular family movie called The Trouble With Terkel (seriously, it was playing in theaters here this Summer alongside a bunch of re-releases even though it was made 10 years ago), the film centers on a scrawny dude who lives among a tribe of legendary -and muscular- warriors. “ I swear on my mother’s merkin I’m NOT Justin Bieber!“ I was so flabbergasted by the sheer lunacy it must have taken to green-light this that I HAD to find and own it on DVD. I discovered that movie by pure chance during my 3rd year of working nights back when I had zilch to do but stay awake I was browsing a now-defunct streaming site called Veetle and I stumbled on it mid-movie. But EVERY time I watch it it makes me smile and laugh and wanna re-watch as soon as the credits start rolling. The jokes are crude and lewd and mostly for dudes, the animation is reminiscent of a 90s video game, the dubbing is often mismatched, the story is paper-thin and the villain is voiced by Dee friggin Snyder. Although it's not a big title, it has good action and quite a good story but it's a bit too predictable and superficial and it leaves you with a feeling that it was a low budget movie (although its producers could have avoided this problem).You know that guilty pleasure we all have, like tough guys wearing pink bunny slippers at home, or girly-girls listening to Norwegian Black Metal in secret at nite, or gangstas watching Murder She Wrote with their grandmas, or celebrity chefs putting Cheeze Whiz on their toast? That makes for a strange dichotomy in my house where I have a special display for movies I’m proud to own a special edition of: The Citizen Kane criterion, the metal-cased director’s cut of Donnie Darko, the restoration VHS of Bridge on the River Kwai, the Monty Python 16-ton Megaset… and the bargain bin DVD of Ronal the Barbarian. Although I had some problems understanding it (it's Danish so I had to follow all the subtitles), it will make you laugh or at least put a smile on your face very often. All sequences are treated in a very funny and entertaining manner, which makes it a great comedy. This movie is a parody of Conan the Barbarian and King Arthur's Excalibur. Advised by a shaman that only a sacred sword can defeat Volcazar, he must find it before it's too late together with a couple of friends found along the way. Ronal is a skinny, weak, good for nothing member of the barbarian clan who happens to be the only one who hasn't been captured by the evil Lord Volcazar (who plans to sacrifice all barbarians to god Zaal for his immortality).
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