to my nephews, who thanks to me, are also D&D players. The greatest cult fantasy movie ever!

enough to work. In short, the movie somehow surpasses the sum of its individual parts to achieve something near a cult classic quality. I've even made Baldur's Gate PC characters based on the characters using pics and voice clips from the movie. Just imagine clicking on the elf character and hearing "I, am ready" or "Name, the target" in that delightful monotone.

a serious film just has to give you a barrel of laughs.

D&D type session, all stereotyped and straight out of the pages of an old Fighting fantasy game book adventure. All those things that prevailed in mine and my friends D&D games at the time. We loved that film and still do to this day, so for me it represents a time long ago when we used to fight monsters and explore fantasy worlds. So in short, I don't care how bad the effects, acting or plot is, it will always remind me of those days....Ahhh happy memories

movie…….it is just so much bloody fun!!!!!!!In compendious terminology this film represents pure B-Movie heaven!!!!!!So what if the acting is shall we say, somewhat less than stellar by a few of the key cast members – it only adds to the charm factor! And the special effects? - Well put it this way, after sitting through the final climatic battle in the film, you'll never look at a rubber ball the same way ever again!This film really is just so fantastically enjoyable!And to all those who feel nothing but abomination for it, I ask but one question…..what would you rather watch….this innocent, nostalgic fun fest or one of the modern plague of seemingly infinite CGI monstrosities that have been ostensibly aimed exclusively towards those unfortuitous individuals whose sagaciousness as calculated on an Intelligence Quotient scale is marginally smaller than my shoe size?

British accent. Totally out of place amongst the other actors. Bernard Bresslaw of Carry On movies fame, and one of the world's all-time worst actors plays Gort, a giant. Well, he's taller than anyone else, so he must be a giant, right? He delivers some lines truly terribly. Jack Palance plays Voltan, supposedly the hero's brother, but looking more like his father. He dresses very much like Darth Vader but overacts so completely that I wondered if he was trying to end his career with this movie. Ray Charleson plays Crow, an elf. He can shoot arrows so fast that the camera couldn't catch more than one being fired, so they replayed that shot over and over so you got the idea he was really fast. William Morgan plays Ranulf, a man with a rapid firing crossbow they obviously had those in pseudo medieaval times and Peter Farrel is Baldin, a dwarf. You know he's a dwarf because he's the shortest one of the group. He also acts and delivers some lines so badly you won't believe see the raft scene .The story is a standard rescue scenario, though why anyone would want to rescue the Mother Abbess is beyond me. Ineffectual would be a polite word to describe all the nuns, who mill about and cower a lot, but do little else.Did I mention the special effects? They really are special. Laugh at the teleporter. None of that fancy Star Trek malarkey about slowly disappearing. Here you simply sit inside two rings welded together at an angle and placed on a turntable. Then there's the "storm of whirling fireballs" which appear to be ping-pong balls fired horizontally. And then there's the silly string to immobilize the guards. "One ping-pong ball to blind them, lots of silly string to bind them"The only half-way decent effects are the mindsword, which has a cool glowing orb held in a fist instead of a pommel. And the healing orb, which Voltan uses to soothe his damaged face. But that's it. In fact, everything magical glows. The teleporter rings, the ping-pong fireballs, the sword, the healing orb, all of it.One thing I never understood about Voltan's face. It was supposedly burnt, which is where the damage came from, but it won't heal naturally?Anyway, this film has all the bad things that make a classic B-movie and is well worth a look. But it still amazes me how good a bad film this is. If you set out to do everything wrong in a movie it would be truly awful, but here, it just works. Recommended.

ridiculous electronic sound effect first used at the start with the sword ; Every time someone dies can be limited to 3 drinks for a fight scene as its hard to keep count ; Every time the crazy disco soundtrack starts up; Every time there are poor special effects; Every time there is a cheesy flashback Every time the top of the set is visible.Enjoy!

Orange as a fanatical priest who has a great little scene in the middle. The highlights: the cool rapid fire bow effects, the uzi crossbow needs to be seen to believed , everything with Crow, the glowing elfstone sword, the hilarious disco music that swelled up whenever Hawk rides through the forest its like Vangelis meets KC and the Sunshine Band, not kidding and the interaction of Hawk and his friends. The lowlights: the bad acting, the crappy editing, the obvious painted matte of the abbott's castle, the slow sword fights, and the whiny nun who is way too trusting of Voltan and not of Hawk. Duh! He's saving you! Idiot.I should say i would have overlooked all the bad points if I were a kid, anyone 7-12 would dig this flick. Overall, if you have a chance to see this, and its hard to find I understand, enjoy it for what it is and nothing more. You'll definitely get some laughs out of it at least. 8 out of 10.