Rating: 
Summary: One star is too much
Review: I would give this movie no stars at all if that were possible. It is that bad. While the first Conan film was serious and did the genere complete justice, this crap was an H.R. Puff n Stuff Saturday morning garbage fest. Bad acting, way too many caracters, one ridiculous sidekick (who I wish was killed off in the first 30 seconds of the movie.)and ...Wilt Chamberlin? This story was as bad as the Ewoks in Jedi. And the music, while perfect in the original, is recycled here. Some parts are exact copies of the first score. How 'bout some originality here? Unless your 7 years old or have a mind like one, don't buy it. Arnold needs to do another Conan movie so we can forget about this one. With today's special effects and some intelligent writing it could surpass even the original Conan episode. Let's hope.
Rating:
Summary: A travesty
Review: This sequel to Conan the Barbarian does it no justice and is perhaps one of the reasons the first film is not better respected. What were they thinking?
Rating:
Summary: Conan the D...umb
Review: Very dissapointed but this sequel. In fact I always remembered the first movie when I saw it when I was 9-10 years old and I buy it on DVD just a couple months ago (I'm 28 yo now). But I didn't remember this second part. NOw I know why! I just rent it a couple days ago to see if it's worth buying it on DVD, it doesn't. Obviously was made for children, not like the first part. But I don think my children need to see this one, I think they must see CONAN THE BARBARIAN! (when they have the appropiate age of course). Best regards.
Rating: 
Summary: Betrays the spirit of Robert E. Howard
Review: Much inferior to the original CONAN THE BARBARIAN but as a DVD it looks fantastic. Available for the first time ever in wide-screen, the source print is immaculate and the colors are bright, the images spectacularly clean. Too bad Universal hasn't yet put together a CONAN THE BARBARIAN DVD that looks this good. This movie was produced strictly on the cheap with a puzzled Wilt Chamberlain acting like he wandered on the set believing he'd been invited to a costume party. Thanks to the lame script, Tracey Walter as Conan's sidekick is about as funny as an eyeful of pus. Other low points -- the pre-WWF smackdown match (on gray padded carpet!) between Arnold and a guy in a 99-cent-store rubber mask pretending to be a monster . . . the blue-screen work in general . . . and Olivia D'Abo's acting. There are a few highpoints -- Arnold's muscles . . . Olivia D'Abo's skimpy costume . . . and another truly fantastic score by Basil Poledouris! The soundtrack CD is worth getting!
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Summary: 180-degree reversal on the original.
Review: Conan the Destroyer is a much less malignant sort of animal than the original, carnivorous, and ultimately bleak original film. This sequel was done with tongue firmly in cheek, and no pretenses to otherwise. On that level, it works quite well as mindless, macho entertainment, with so many visual gags that at times it comes close to becoming a full-out comedy.Grace Jones easily steals the movie as the athletic, feisty Zula ("toothpick"), and Wilt Chamberlain makes a good physical counterpart to Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan. I read somewhere that Schwarzenegger was actually asked to put on more muscles for the role than before, and it shows. Conan the Destroyer also evokes much more of a sci-fi/fantasy element than the original Conan, which had a much more occult, primitive tone to it. The sequel piles on a one-horned monster and a wizard living in a crystal palace and ups the action further. The swordplay in Destroyer is faster-paced than in the first film, and less bloody -- though still violent enough to make its PG rating a gross misrepresentation. All in all, well executed "male" entertainment, with a top-flight score and good casting.
Rating: 
Summary: A simple but good sequal
Review: I think I liked this film better than the first because, even though the first one was a great film, about an hour of it was a total bore to me. This one kept me entetained the whole way through. The special effects and acting could have been a little better but other wise I loved it. This film wasen't as complex as the first one was mainly because it didn't have any nudity or sex in it. I think this film is very entertaining and action packed. It has come to be one of my favorite films.
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Summary: Not the best, not the worst
Review: All right, it dosen't even come close to Conan the Barbarian, but is way better than some other ripoffs. They didn't even give Arnold a good dialog (same mistake twice), however it makes up in gore and a few cheasy comic book fight scenes. Hollywood's BIGGEST mistake was making Conan look like just another dumb lug of muscle. Best advice I can give on watching this movie is not to watch it right after Conan the Barbarian.
Rating:
Summary: Baked not fried
Review: I was always a fan of this movie, I grew up on it. Sure parts of it were stupid, but there were also some very good ideas as well. My personal opinion is that they should spend some money and redo some of the special effects. Like the beast at the end hint hint. Overall it was a pretty inspiring film, Conan was my hero, to me this film is a classic.
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Summary: Hither came the sequel
Review: "Conan the Barbarian" is obviously the best of the two, a film that blended action with an allegorical quest, but "Destroyer", although full of campy moments which are every true fantasy fan's nightmare and were continued in 1985 with "Red Sonja", has it's moments which shows that possibly the screenplay was much better than the resulting film. Features some exceptional sword fighting ala the first film and truly outstanding Conan imagery as Arnold battles the monster at the end. But the big letdowns of course are the story and some of the acting, MOST notably Tracey Walter as Malik, Conan's puny and somewhat inept sidekick. Whatever happened to Subotai from the original. Walter is just annoying and embarrassing in this role. Grace Jones and Wilt Chamberlain do as well as expected and I've never really had any qualms about Sarah Douglas as the evil Queen. Remember her in Superman II afterall? Not the worst fantasy film ever made ("Sword and the Sorcerer" or "The Beastmaster" anyone?) but certainly not as good as the original.
Rating: 
Summary: The Best
Review: The Best movie ever! 5 stars!!
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