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A sword and sorcery fantasy, Dungeons and Dragons the film is based on the role-playing game first introduced in the 1970s. It delivers some of the same kind of fantasy and fun the game offered, as its youthful heroes journey through a magical kingdom battling with the forces of evil. One or two scenes (such as someone having their brain sucked out by a nasty thing with tentacles) might upset very young children. But many of the special effects look tame compared to state-of-the-art films like The Matrix (the dragons in particular are rather wimpish), and though you do need full-blooded acting for this sort of thing, Jeremy Irons goes way over the top as the wicked wizard Profion. Marlon Wayans is supposed to provide some street-wise comedy, but is simply annoying. If you enjoyed playing the game you might like this, but there's a lot of competition in the fantasy film genre these days, and Dungeons and Dragons isn't really up to it. --Ed Buscombe
On the DVD: This one disc is packed full of extra features. The film and special effects are breathtaking in needle-sharp Widescreen (1.85:1) Anamorphic transfer. As for the soundtrack, you haven't heard a dragon roar until you hear it in Dolby 5.1 or 2.0 Surround. The director Courtney Solomon, Justin Whalin who plays the hero Ridley, and the Dungeons and Dragons game co-creator Dave Arneson, offer one commentary track, which is a bit inane and doesn't really add anything to the film. However, the second commentary with Solomon, Arneson and cinematographer Doug Milsome is much more intelligent and offers some great info about the filming of specific scenes. Along with the UK trailer, there are two special features--a 20-minute "Making of" featurette, with some entertaining stuff about how Solomon secured the rights to the D&D universe and the creation of the special effects, CGI, costumes and make-up and a 14-minute special feature on the legacy of Dungeons and Dragons. There are 12 deleted scenes, most of which are pretty near completion (save a few blue screens here and there) and the more adrenalin-pumped scenes are broken down in stages to show how the SFX were created. For those who have seen the film and want to play the game, on the DVD-ROM there is also a playable demo of Black Isle's computer game sequel, Shadows of Amn. --Kristen Bowditch
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By "paulias"
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Format:DVD
I bought this in anticipation of Fellowship of the Ring, to see what could be done with a fantasy film. The script is painful, the characters are annoying and Jeremy Irons looks like he wants to strangle his agent. The dragon battle is spectacular. The dwarf and elf characters are terrible. The main character has to go into the "dungeon" alone, totally opposite to the teamwork principle of the game that inspired this film.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:DVD
This whole dvd is awful.
Firstly the film. The acting is terrible, the dwarf is as tall as the main characters, Jeremy Irons is definately thinking "That pays for a new house!", The plot is disjointed, the editing is dreadful, items re-appear after being left behind ages ago(the eye of the dragon). I could go on.
On the Plus side, The final dragon fight is good, as are a few other CGI bits. The maze sequence is OK, and the elf tracker woman is cute.
The DVD extras are as bad as the main feature.
The deleted scenes should have been deleted, as they add nothing to the dvd, the "play the game" featurettes make the RPG Hobby sound 5000 times more nerdy than it actually is(some achievement there!) The "making of" short contributes nothing to anyones knowledge of how a film is made, and the director came across REALLY badly.
I rented this movie as a last resort, I see why it vanished at the box office, My son, who shouldnt really have watched it found it dull and, in parts, laughable
A sad outing all round, and the D&D hobby deserved a better thought out, bigger budget, well plotted, and well acted movie than this.
Firstly the film. The acting is terrible, the dwarf is as tall as the main characters, Jeremy Irons is definately thinking "That pays for a new house!", The plot is disjointed, the editing is dreadful, items re-appear after being left behind ages ago(the eye of the dragon). I could go on.
On the Plus side, The final dragon fight is good, as are a few other CGI bits. The maze sequence is OK, and the elf tracker woman is cute.
The DVD extras are as bad as the main feature.
The deleted scenes should have been deleted, as they add nothing to the dvd, the "play the game" featurettes make the RPG Hobby sound 5000 times more nerdy than it actually is(some achievement there!) The "making of" short contributes nothing to anyones knowledge of how a film is made, and the director came across REALLY badly.
I rented this movie as a last resort, I see why it vanished at the box office, My son, who shouldnt really have watched it found it dull and, in parts, laughable
A sad outing all round, and the D&D hobby deserved a better thought out, bigger budget, well plotted, and well acted movie than this.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Don't go into this movie expecting a fantasy epic, you will be disappointed. Go into it for unintentional comedy. It's fun and in absolutely no way serious. The plot is generic, so are the characters, the costume designs are weird at best and there's no dungeons. It "steals" from everything that came before it, hoping to cash in, and the acting... what can I say? There's one great scene that I think really sets out to reflect the differences between over-acting and under-acting. You can't take this film seriously!
And the ending is... surreal. I can't make sense of it.
Why 5 stars? It's a brilliant movie if you go into it expecting fun, like I said, none of the actors are taking it seriously - it gets five stars for being so downright enjoyable. It would get zero stars for a fantasy epic but, you know, it isn't a fantasy epic. It wants to be one. It's a sidekick to the fantasy epic.
Want a film you can laugh at with friends? Get this.
And the ending is... surreal. I can't make sense of it.
Why 5 stars? It's a brilliant movie if you go into it expecting fun, like I said, none of the actors are taking it seriously - it gets five stars for being so downright enjoyable. It would get zero stars for a fantasy epic but, you know, it isn't a fantasy epic. It wants to be one. It's a sidekick to the fantasy epic.
Want a film you can laugh at with friends? Get this.
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