trite and clichéd dialog and plotting ( the same kind of stuff we saw all through the 1980s fantasy movie ) and hokey music and and a paint by number character knock this out of the running for all but the most hardcore fan . what save this film from the junk heap be the beautiful crutch of bakshi work and the rotoscoping and and the fact that frank frazetta teach the animator how to draw like him . this be frazetta . in motion . the violence be spectacular and the art direction and animation be unlike any other sword and sorcery movie of the period . i like to watch this with the sound off and play the soundtrack to the first conan movie instead .