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LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

David Roggenkamp Take one badass king that has given up his title and still wants to make a living as a mercenary, and a bumbling fool that is as strong as an ox and you have a match made in heaven. These two are sent by their king to free a realm in exchange for gold; only the gold has been taken for military spending and a king's daughter is offered in exchange instead. Once the former king and his comrade head for yet another encampment things just get weird. Not only does the story have a plot, within a plot, within a plot, it features mongoloids, elephants, several rival armies, ninja, and even demon warriors from the land of the dead. Keep in mind, this has nothing to do with the heroes of the story, they are merely caught up within the works and taking care of business. This movie goes in so many directions, but if the word epic were to come into play, this movie puts the word and it's use to shame. I recommend this movie, especially for the comedy that often ensues.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/?p=3460).

boltar469 *** SPOILER ALERT!!! *** This movie is way beyond silly - at least the 50's and 60's Hercules vs. the stop motion monster of the week stuff stuck more or less to the same side of the BC/CE line! The military tech spans about 3500 years, but what was truly amazing was the amazing range of soldiers involved in the action. The Akkadians were in the neighborhood of 2000 BC; I suppose the Greeks may have been off by a thousand years or so re the Trojan war being around 1200 BC though the Romans thought it was more like 600 BC in tracing their founding to Aeneas' sons.War elephants go way back to Hindu myth, so OK.But imperial Rome era legionaries? Late medieval era NINJAS??? This is almost as good as Hedley Lamarr's all-eras bad guy army in Blazing Saddles! The acting, writing and directing is somewhere between fairly silly and profoundly silly, but doesn't quite make it to the outrageous parody level that would make it really fun. The humor, though dumb, is sometimes good for a chuckle.Warning: it is absolutely necessary to suspend ALL critical faculties before attempting to watch this nonsense. That done, it's possible to watch it. I'd rather have watched the original Scorpion King or the Mummy movies, or a couple of episodes of the engagingly ridiculous Hercules/Xena saga, all things considered.The couple of actual actors involved in this must have been having a few really slow weeks.

EchoMaRinE I guess the director thought he could compensate the bad script and the bad directing with cheesy jokes. Unfortunately he couldn't. With little effort, this could have been an OK movie. The idea is not bad. The acting is not fantastic but I assume they did what they were told to do. So the failure boils down to the director. Let me explain why this movie is rated this low. It is boring (I mean it. Even the fight scenes are boring. You see two people fighting and the rest of the crowd in the battle field do silly movements), there are so many cheesy jokes and they are not funny at all, the sound tracks are not appropriate for this genre, acting is cheesy as well and the directing is ultra bad. Overall, not worth watching.

JoeB131 This is a sequel to the original Scorpion King with "The Rock". The actor they get to replace him does the job well enough.Other than that, it's a by the numbers sword and sorcery film with some okay characters and some all right acting. Nothing anyone is going to take home a Razzie or an Oscar for. Nothing in it really surprised me. There were no great plot twists. We find out that Jango Fett's daughter is actually hot after being led to believe she was homely.And big surprise, she was the leader of the warrior people in the forest.Hey, I checked the spoilers box... because if you didn't see this coming, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.