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Review: ‘Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire’

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A parody of a genre that itself regularly approaches -- even embraces -- self-parody, “Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire” brought rippling pecs and flashing blades to Comedy Central Thursday night.

A co-production between the home of “Reno 911!” and, surprisingly, the BBC, the series is less a take-off on big-budget sword-and-sorcery films than on its more modest television kin -- such Saturday-afternoon syndicated fare as “Xena: Warrior Princess” and the recent “Legend of the Seeker,” whose visual grammar it replicates expertly. And though it is often stunningly juvenile in its humor, there is already something stunningly juvenile about the stuff it lampoons. I’m not convinced it’s all that good, but “Kröd” may be the right show for the right audience.

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