YMMV / Ronal the Barbarian

• Awesome Music: Barbarian Rhapsody. An awesome metal piece.
• Complete Monster: Volcazar is an Evil Overlord obsessed with raising the dark god Zaal from his exile. Leading an assault on the Barbarian village, he personally murders Gundar and shows an awful treatment of his own troops, even throttling his Dragon for a minor failure. As he uses the blood of the Barbarians to resurrect Zaal, he forces Zandra to fight for him, abusing her the entire time, before taking on the powers of Zaal and killing many defenseless Barbarians. He plans to wipe out the entire Barbarian clan, then move onto spread darkness and terror throughout the lands, promising that all life will submit to him or die by his hand.
• Fridge Brilliance: Zandra becoming Ronal's girlfriend at the end despite never fighting him may not count as a violation of her shield-maiden vow. According to it, she's supposed to marry and serve the man who best her in combat, which results in her begrudgingly becoming one of Volcazar's minions after she has been vanquished. However, during the climax Volcazar is killed by Ronal, which means that, in a way, Ronal defeated her by proxy.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Its art style seems pretty similar to most family-friendly 3D animated movies, but hoo boy this movie is far from those kinds of movies. It's pretty obvious from Ronal's crotch bulge on the poster alone that the tagline "For the whole family!" is a sarcastic joke. The film did receive a 12 rating in Germany, a U rating in France, and an 11 rating in Denmark; but that could be chalked up to Values Dissonance if anything.

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