YMMV / Johnny Corncob

• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: China loved the movie. As alleged by the director, about 400 million viewers were reported from there — meanwhile in its native Hungary, 1.5 million was already considered a success. No doubt this was helped by the fact that the Chinese have a fondness for Sándor Petőfi's poetry and the style of music the film uses.
• Nightmare Fuel: People who found the Blue Meanies unsettling would likely be less than thrilled about their off-brand, deformed, unevenly animated Eastern European cousins.
• Tough Act to Follow: None of the director's other movies really became as famous, successful and beloved. Yes, even the internationally acclaimed Fehérlófia was originally seen as a downgrade that failed to sell tickets.
• Values Dissonance: The depictions of the Turkish invaders, their exaggerated designs, atrocious deeds and embarrassing defeat has been seen as racist by some. Even at the time of release, censorship thought the film had gone overboard with its nationalism. The socialist powers developed a distaste for the director and most foreign nations showed a great reluctance to screen the movie. The Tartars get an equally unflattering portrayal as dog-headed Beast Folk. Granted, there had been massive bad blood between Hungarians and the Ottoman Empire and Tartars/Mongols for hundreds of years at the time of the original poem's writing due to repeated invasion and lengthy occupation of Hungary's territories and the slaughtering of almost half their population. Both the poet Petőfi and film director Marcell Jankovics were highly nationalistic and felt pained over their people's history. Given that Petőfi lived under Habsburg oppression and Jankovics under communism, it is little wonder that both of them accentuated the negative traits of their country's former tormentors and gave fictionalized fairy-tail accounts of their defeats.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: While the film of rated KN, which was the Hungarian equivalent of the G rating in the 70’s, the film contains several scenes of content, people in the U.S would find questionable. Such scenes considered not kid friendly include some rampant nudity, a sex scene that is censored with innuendo, some graphic violence including a man being cut in half, and a demon defecating into a cauldron.