Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II (1989)

User Rating:

1.4/10   

Director:

Charles B. Griffith

Writers:

Charles B. Griffith (writer)
Lance Smith (writer)

Release Date:

March 1989 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Fantasy | Adventure

Plot:

Three kingdoms have been overtaken by three evil lords and only Tyor, a teenaged boy with magical powers...

Plot Keywords:

Wizard | Boy | Monster | Villainess | Wizardry

Cast

Mel Welles	...	Caedmon
Robert Jayne	...	Tyor (as Bobby Jacoby)
David Carradine	...	Dark One
Susan Lee Hoffman	...	Idun
Blake Bahner	...	Erman
Lana Clarkson	...	Amathea
Henry Brandon	...	Zarz
Wayne Grace	...	Vanir
Edward Blackoff	...	Loki
Sid Haig	...	Donar
Diana Barton	...	Freyja
Sharon Compton	...	Mother
W.T. Zacha	...	One Eye
Dale Swann	...	Bearded warrior
Joseph V. Perry	...	Merchant (as Joseph Perry)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:PG | UK:PG | West Germany:12

Company:

New Classics

Trivia:

Several scenes in this movie are footage recycled from the film Barbarian Queen (1985), most notably the scene where Amathea (played by Lana Clarkson in both films) is looking into the gladiator pen as well as most of the battle scene in which she leads her people into battle against Donar's forces.

Quotes:

Tyor: Uhhh... Try again Caedmon. I mean, it looks like chicken, it feels like chicken, but it eats, like a rock.

Movie Connections:

Features Barbarian Queen (1985)

you have to draw the line somewhere

I daresay I am very fond of B or even Z movies. Westerns, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, you name it. I've seen quite a lot of movies ranging from bad to very bad, with an occasional gem flirting with the 'execrable' mark. However, this thing was simply out of scale. It is neither the gaping plot holes, pitiful lines, inept sets nor below 80's D&D scenario storyline. I think it is the way all actors without exception seemed not only bored but plainly ashamed of being immortalized in such a lame show.

They are all, without exception, amazingly clumsy, slow, and boring. I still wonder what coaxed Carradine into this piece of junk - trouble with the IRS maybe ? But the worst disappointment came from the lame performance of Captain Spaulding, head of the unforgettable dysfunctional family of the house of 1000 corpses and the devil's rejects. Yes, this movie even managed to bore the flamboyant Z movie star Sid Haig into near-catatonia. Not a small feat in itself, if you like that sort of things.

Add a terribly annoying soundtrack with garbled voices and very loud out of sync "background" music (in all fairness that last bit could have been due to the appalling state of the venerable VHS tape) and you get something that managed to defeat my unusually high tolerance for *really* cheap movies.

Not even worth a rent unless you invest in enough booze to wash away this tedium.