Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell have conspired to make the ultimate man-boy fantasy. It's something someone in junior high would write, but they do it all tongue in cheek, and go full out. It's basically a fore-runner to the Hercules and Xena shows - if you don't like their style, you won't like this. The special effects get very, very cheesy in places, and they ought to have stuck to the snappy dialog instead of the really loooong battle sequences, but I think they were really just having fun, which is the complete point of making such a movie.