Wow.Just. Wow.
I bought this because it is a direct to video fantasy animated product. From a professional standpoint, it makes sense for me to watch.
I couldn't.
It took three false starts for me to watch this.
The movie starts with a five minute history lesson about the world of the story. And it's not exciting history, it's boring history with slow paced, uninteresting visuals.
We then get into the story, which is animated to look like '80's Saturday morning cartoons. Benefit of the doubt time: they may have done this on purpose. Practically speaking time: is there one good reason to do this on purpose?
Then there are the dragons, which are rendered to look like '90's Saturday morning 3D animation cartoons.
Seriously. It looks like they did a mash up with some old 80's fantasy cartoon and some old 90's fantasy cartoon.
When the 80's-style 2D and the 90's-style 3D interact, it is truly difficult to watch.
I cannot imagine what was going on behind the scenes for this to be the product they came out with.
Voice acting was good. Nothing outstanding, but decent. They had a strong pool of voice actors here. The story was a little hard to follow, but that may have been because it was so difficult to watch.
Do not waste your money on this.
~ Ben
PS -- I went a bit long on this because, well, I wanted everyone to know the serious nature of my warning. Do not watch this movie. Not because it's related to Dungeons and Dragons and your Sunday school teacher told you not to. Because it's TERRIBLE. Do not judge a direct to DVD movie by its cover. The animation looks NOTHING like the box art.
PPS -- They misspelled Michael Rosenbaum's name in the end credits!!! Yes, folks, they spellend it with an "N".
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