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Summary: Dragons!
Review: This DVD has two things going for it. It has a huge dragon battle, I love dragons, at the end of the movie, and it has some really promising scenes it it. Unfortunatly, the SFX used for the dragons aren't up to par with fantasy movies like Dragonheart and all the good scenes were in the selection of stuff cut from the movie.Things go downhill from here. This movie is bad. The director obviously spent every last dime he had to create the CGI for the dragons. Things like good actors and script writers were forgotten until the last moment. The script looks like it was put together by a monkey with a typewriter. To make it "better" scenes were ripped out of star wars and stuck in were appropriate. Did anyone notice that the elven villige scene looks exactly like the Ewok villige scene in Return of the Jedi? The actors are mostly either, a)cardboard cut outs or b)overacting to the point of emberassment. Justin Whalin is the star of the show. All other characters are in the movie to either try to kill him, thus making them the bad guys, or to save him from the aformintioned bad guys till he has a chance to take them, the bad guys, out later. He is also the only actor allowed into any of the dungeons. This keeps all the other actors in there place, manly standing around doing nothing. If a DM ran this campaign, his players would walk out on him after about a half hour. You would never cater this much to a single player. I almost cried when I saw the deleted scenes on the DVD. As I mentioned earlier, these are the best scenes on the DVD. I cannot help but wonder if these are the punchline in some cruel joke being played upon the fantasy and science fiction lovers of the world. If you have to see this, take my advise, rent it, mute the volume, and watch the first and last ten to fifteen minutes of the movie. O, yea, I just thought of another thing the movie has going for it. Snails bites it half way through the movie. This is the best scene in the movie. I actually stood up and cheered when I saw this in the theater. Not like there was anyone there to see me do this. I apologize profusly to all star wars fans by mentioning a star wars movie in connection to this peice of <edited>.
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Summary: One of the worst movies I've seen in a long time
Review: This movie was so bad I actually had to fast foward parts of it because I couldn't take the dialog anymore. Bad dialog, lame characters, horrible story, amateurish special effects. What more can I say. Don't waste your time with this movie!
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Summary: Most people will hate it, but it's not all bad!
Review: Dungeons and Dragons is a film based off the widely popular Fantasy Role Playing game of the same name that has been around for about thirty years.
The Empress (Thora Birch) wants quality and prosperity for all, but the evil Mage Profion (Jeremy Irons) defies her, and tries to establish his own rule, by convincing the other Mages that the young Empress is unfit to rule, and to carry the golden scepter, which allows her to control Gold Dragons. Knowing that Profion will bring nothing but death and destruction if he succeeds, the Empress, must find the legendary Rod of Savrille, a mythical rod that has the power to control Red Dragons, a species even mightier than the Gold.
Profion learns of the Rod of Savrille, and sends his cheif henchman, Damodor (Bruce Payne), on a quest to find it before the Empress does.
Two common theives, Ridley (Justin Whalin) and Snails (Marlon Wayans), unwittingly become instrumental in the Empress's search for the Rod. Joined by a the Empress's expert tracker, the Half-Elven Norda (Kristen Wilson), a feisty Dwarf named Elwood (Lee Arenberg), and the young Mage Marina (Zoe McLellan), they embark on a quest to obtain the Rod of Savrille, in order to save the world.
Jeremy Irons's performance was quite an embarrassment. Plus, he was only in the movie for about fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes of screen-time for the main villain of the film? Are you kidding me? Whalin was good in some scenes, bad in others. The same goes for McLellan. During the interigation scene, McLellan was quite good, as was her scene with Whalin towards the end of the film in the Elven Village. But most of the time she just got in my nerves and delivered lines like a child actor would. Wayans, being totally out of place in this film, suprisingly did a pretty good job. His character was annoying at times, but if anyone should be blamed for that it's the writers. Thora Birch put on a terrible performance. She looked like she was reading cue-cards the whole time and her speech was terribly slow and shakey. Most of the other actors put on mediocre performances, but were acceptable. The only really good performance in the film came from Bruce Payne. I was blown away by this guy. Like his roll in "Highlander: Endgame", Bruce plays a very convincing bad guy. He completely steals the show.
The effects are also a mixed bag. The Dragons looks great, as do the CG landscape scenes. Also, the sword sparks and the huge Dragon War at the end of the film blew me away. However, most of the spells cast throughout the film look terrible. Also, Justin Caine Burnett's music score was a high-point, and really fit well with the Fantasy theme. Great stuff.
The DVD is great. The picture is in widescreen and is perfectly clear. The surround sound is great as well. The disc is also packed with Special Features, including 11 deleated scenes, 2 Full-Length Commentaries, 2 Documentaries, Trailer, DVD-ROM features and more. The onyl thing wrong with the DVD is that it comes in the cardboard case. I hate that. They are ugly and nowehere near as durable as the plastic snap cases. Oh well.
When it's all said and done, D&D is a love it or hate it movie. I loved it. Even with the bad acting, some bad special effects, and less than perfect story, I still found the movie highly enjoyable. Just remember not to take it to seriously and you'll probably enjoy yourself. I recommend this movie to kids, or anyone that likes cheesey Science Fiction or Fantasy films. If you don't fit into one of those catigories, don't waste your time with this movie.
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Summary: Mixed Review
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed Dungeons and Dragons: The Movie. But I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I enjoyed it because it reminded me of the cheesier, more HORRID games of D&D I've played over the years and the fun we had butchering them - if you ever want to SERIOUSLY annoy a DM, any time he intones, "By the Duke's Decree" or says anything with "duke" in the sentence, start humming the "Duke of Earl" song under your breath. D&D:TM is the sort of movie you'd shuffle off to Mystery Theater 3000 as quickly as possible so you could have fun listening to the characters there skewer it. It raises popcorn-hurling to new heights of artistry. It makes "The Barbarian Brothers" look INTELLIGENT by comparison. You'd send the kids to watch it at a dollar matinee because there's precious little T&A in it and they're not going to grow up to be ax murderers or parking lot valets because of it. It's silly in its pretentiousness and fun to make fun of.
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I used to play Dungeons and Dragons about 15 years ago. I was really excited when this movie came out. I did not get a chance to see it in the Theater. So when it came out on DVD I bought it. It was very disappointing. They should have taken some of the stories from their series of very popular books.
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Summary: Only the effects save it...
Review: When considering whether to buy this, buy it only for the special effects. I am a long time D&D player, RPG fan, etc., and I am usually entertained by movies in general. but this was a terrible attempt to force the RPG style into a movie... the result was a movie that had all the elements but lacked depth and a story. Go watch Willow instead, now thats a real fantasy movie...
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Summary: Not bad - confused, but enjoyable
Review: I didn't see D&D at the cinema, mainly because I was put off by all of the bad reviews in the press at the time. Being a fan of fantasy / RPG when I was younger, though, I did decide to check out the DVD of the film. It's not all that bad! I was not exactly captivated by the story or the acting - Jeremy Irons in particular was pretty awful, as was Richard O'Brien, and Wayans got on my nerves a little, but overall the film was OK (if you can ignore the number of times you find yourself comparing Ridley to a certain L. Skywalker...). The effects were quite solid, although the directorial touch of "swooping" into buildings and scenes did smack of amateurism - once or twice was OK, but it seemed like nearly every major scene change was accompanied by some whizzy shot of the outside of an impressive building. The most interesting part of the DVD was the extras. The deleted scenes show just how much of the film was cut, presumably for length - but in at least 3 cases, the scenes were vital! It was great to be able to find out just what did happen while a couple of characters were away (instead of them just not being around for a while, then reappearing and explaining what they had learned)... and the same applied to several other parts of the film, which felt rushed or confused when I watched them before getting around to the deleted bits. Overall, it's worth watching if you are a sci-fi / fantasy fan, but don't expect a fantastic night in. However much of a fan you are, you are *going* to cringe in a few places, but don't let that get in the way of enjoying a fun film.
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Summary: 2 hours of my life I'll never have again
Review: Anyone rating this film probably works for the movie company, or has lost their marbles. It only gets one star from me because my girlfriend insisted we get it, and this howling error on her part gives me carte blanche rental choices for about the next decade. Bad dialogue, clumsily edited, atrocious acting, inconsistent motivations, no character development, colossal non-sequiturs, baffling ending and lead characters with all the pizazz of pork luncheon meat. Fantastic relief though when Marlon Wayan's "Snails" is bumped off by the slaphead with the blue-lipstick - ah yes, Snails the thief - as much use as a glass hammer. Don't believe the reviewers who claim that the extra scenes "explain everything" - they just add to the horror. It was just fantastically bad - don't buy it - for pity's sake - save your money. I'm going to stop now, because it just hurts too much to think about it.
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Summary: To bad you can't give 0 stars
Review: This film looked promising from some of the material I read before hand. However the reality was very different, I found the plot incredibly weak and with attendacy to miss out large sections. The casting and acting was poor with me actually wanting Thora Birch to die. From what has been done in other films the special effects were poor. I would not wish anyone to see this film, unfortunately it has to be seen to be believed
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Summary: Why did they even bother
Review: This movie may be the worst movie that I have ever seen or owned. The special effects although not ground breaking may be the only reason to watch, and only those parts. The acting, story, filming all explain why this movie was out in theaters for maybe half a day. I would be very hard pressed to compare this movie to any other that I have ever seen, I do not think anyone else has seen fit to publish anything this bad. What were the producers thinking....maybe tax credit? DO NOT BUY THIS MOVIE, wait till it comes out on TV that way you can change the channel. I only wish I could return it.
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