Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

balsarius Tell the "remake" crowd to steer clear of this one before they ruin yet another man epic from the age when Caucasian men had a set. The same crowd who ruined "Conan the Barbarian".Oh, yeah, that Tongan looking L.A. guy who talks in valley boy paragraphs instead of short heavily accented sentences looks and sounds more like he grew up in a land just south of Vanaheim and Asgard, than the actual Austrian who was born south of Scandinavia and Germany.Who cares about the cruelty to animals that took place behind the scenes no one would know about without the PETA campaign to keep it relevant in 2018?Women need to quit imposing 2000's gender rage onto the 1980's male behaviors showcased that were common place for 4k years prior to the 90's fem culture revolt.And, no, brown eyes, a darker complexion, and a more thinking hero are not good idea's for, Dar of the Emurites!Just watch the movie and keep your (I can't thing with my own brain) thumbs off of your text app.Go to hell Hollywood! You White shaming, animal crazy, man haters!Leave this one alone! It's perfect as is!

utgard14 An evil cult leader named Maax (Rip Torn) is freaked out about a prophecy surrounding the King's unborn son so he tries to have the baby killed. But a villager saves the boy and raises him as his own. The boy is named Dar and grows into Marc Singer with the ability to communicate with animals. When Dar's village is raided and all of the villagers killed, he sets out to get revenge on the one responsible -- Maax. Along the way, he is joined by John Amos, sexy Tanya Roberts, and some furry friends.As with most sword & sorcery movies from the '80s, this bears more than a few similarities to Conan the Barbarian. Obviously it's not as good but the inspiration is clearly there. Beastmaster is very cheesy and hard to take seriously. I mean, at the end of the day, "guy who talks to ferrets" is a difficult concept to make work as anything other than a punchline. It's also overlong and full of poorly choreographed action scenes. For his part, Marc Singer does fine and knows when to play it tongue-in-cheek and when not to. Rip Torn is a total ham as the villain. Tanya Roberts actually takes her role seriously, which is embarrassing for her but fun for us. She looks great, of course.So yeah it's cheesy and laughable but it's also entertaining. You can shut your mind off and enjoy it as a simple fantasy adventure flick or you can spend a couple of hours poking fun at it. One question I had while watching is why did Dar never try to talk to the horses of the bad guys and make them stop? In the village raid scene and the climax, the bad guys are all on horses and yet the guy who communicates with animals makes no effort to use that to his advantage. Anyway, it's a good way to pass the time. Followed by two terrible sequels and a forgettable TV series.

SnoopyStyle Maax (Rip Torn) receives a prophecy from witches of his death from the unborn son of the King. He is banished from the kingdom. The witches steal the unborn son in a cow. An old man rescues the boy from the witches and raises him as his own. Dar (Marc Singer) would grow up with powers to communicate with animals. Mauraders massacre his people and he sets out for revenge. He is joined by two thieving ferrets, a hawk and a tiger. He wins the heart of slave girl Kiri (Tanya Roberts).This is mostly compared to Conan which came out a few months before. Beside being second to the screen, this is an inferior product in many ways. Marc Singer is no Arnold Schwarzenegger but who is? Tanya Roberts is a good slave girl reminiscent of all those great B-movie bimbos. The story is alright especially considering the genre. The production is even cheesier than Conan. It's a movie that can't be taken too seriously. The only thing superior are the animals. I love the ferrets and they stay with me all these years.

BA_Harrison I missed out on seeing John Milius' s Conan the Barbarian at the cinema in 1982, but I did manage to catch Don Coscarelli's The Beastmaster, the other sword and sorcery flick that did the rounds at the local flea-pits later that year. With its star Marc Singer no match for the mighty Arnold Schwarzenegger in terms of sheer physical presence, and director Coscarelli working on a much tighter budget than Milius, The Beastmaster might sound like a pretty poor substitute, but I reckon it still rivals Conan in terms of pure entertainment value.Plot-wise, the films are pretty similar, the central character of both being a sword-wielding warrior seeking revenge for the destruction of his people by an evil sorcerer, leader of a fanatical cult; but where Milius's epic aims for the more austere epic approach, The Beastmaster constantly delights with an infectious sense of energy and humour, central character Dar's ability to communicate telepathically with a variety of animals leading to many of the films more fun moments (a pair of mischievous ferrets named Podo and Kodo regularly steal the show, although Rip Torn's Spock-style eyebrows, hook nose and natty skull-shaped hair bobbles gave me the biggest laugh!).Don't make the mistake of thinking that The Beastmaster is all harmless family-orientated fun though: Conan the Barbarian wins hands-down in terms of graphic violence, but Coscarelli's film still features a surprising level of nastiness and even a smattering of nudity: acid secreting bird creatures digest people alive, corpses are impaled on wooden poles, children are sacrificed, countless people die horrific deaths, and the very lovely Tanya Roberts, star of TV's Charlie's Angels, goes topless for her opening scene and leaves very little to the imagination for the rest of the film in some incredibly revealing outfits.