Dungeons And Dragons (DVD)

Advantages: the special effects are skillfully done
Disadvantages: the acting is dire

...years in the making, but Dungeons and Dragons the movie has finally made it to the big-screen. Big named actors, big money special effects, does the gamble pay off? Will the heroes save the land? Will good triumph over evil once again? Will SOMEONE please tell me how a movie studio can transform a good idea into a really BAD movie??? An introduction to the film sets the scene, and within minutes you know that Profion (Jeremy Irons) is the archmage ...
...stands for everything he is against – making everyone equal and generally being nice to each other. She doesn’t want to give the grown ups her golden sceptre. So Profion urges the Council of Mages to gang up on the empress, and now it’s clear that the empire is in deep doodoo. Damodar (Bruce Payne) is urged to help when Profion inserts what seem to be lugworms into his head. That is unless a couple of young thieves Ridley and Snails ... Read review

Advantages: Great Special effects
Disadvantages: Woeful acting, poor plot

I really wanted to see Dungeons and Dragons ever since I saw the trailer. Filled with massive special effects, sword fights, sorcery and dragon or two it definitely looked a cracking film. This genre of film is right up my street so I couldn’t wait, however, I should have remembered that the trailers always look good and this film really underlined how a trailer can make a poor film look brilliant. And what a dire film it is for all the media ...
...reflection on the game of Dungeons and Dragons where the story line is always fluctuating and never seems set in its ways but if so you can’t achieve this on screen without making your audience feel either lost or unhappy with the lack of consistency. Worse than the story line, I feel, was the acting and use of characters. None of the actors imposed themselves on the film what so ever not even the well-known stars such as Jeremy Irons and ... Read review

Advantages: It's over.
Disadvantages: All of it.

I'll apologise in advance, but the best thing about watching this movie was so I could mentally poke fun at all the underground dwelling trenchcoated goth-types who showed up to see it. I'm sorry. Does that make me a bad person? I don't know, but whoever made this gigantic turkey is a very, very bad person, and should still be beating themselves with birch branches until... I don't know, Nancy Reagan tells them to stop. (hey, I don't know. Insert ...
...fans must have realised the travesty which was unfolding onscreen. High camp, some intrusive CGI, all in the name of what is, in certain circles, a way of life... I kinda missed the RPG boat as a kid: Even the geeks wouldn't let me join their gang at school, so I tended to drink antifreeze on the beach. After watching this, I may go back. Roll a 50-sided dice to decide. Jeremy Irons is the only cast member I can remember, and he looked to be having ... Read review

Advantages: Some very good animations
Disadvantages: Poor plot

...games of them all is Dungeons and Dragons. As the years progressed and the game improved it became known as Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (AD&D); with several revisions the rules became better and began to give the player a great feel for role-playing. With the popularity of the system it became inevitable that there would be computer games. From early games like ‘Azure Bonds’ to the current games like ‘Baldur’s Gate’ ...
...was very good and added great value to the whole role-playing ethos. As more and more people began to play these games and AD&D entered the main stream it became obvious that a film based on the role-playing system would be made. The Plot --- ----- An empire exists somewhere in our imagination called the Empire of Izmer. The land contains a multitude of characters ranging from wizards and warriors, thieves, dwarves elves, orcs, goblins and many ... Read review

Advantages: Good special effects, nowt else
Disadvantages: The film

I went to see this film with my little bro, and I'm not really sure what I expected. What I didn't expect, however, was to see extremeley talented actors in this dreadful movie. Jeremy Irons, Marlon Wayons, both great talents cruelly wasted, and why Thora Birch chose this perfect example of how not to make a film as her follow up to the masterpiece that is "American Beauty" is a mystery. The film, set in a medieval fantasy land, has no discernable ...
...young man searching for some kind of rod? (maybe), and a communist Empress, who believes all people should be equal. There is a wise cracking side kick (Marlon Wayons), who dies-how original. The rest of the characters have no reason for being there, at least none that I could figure out. Yes, the special effects are very good, especially the scene where the dragons fight, and no doubt this film is aimed at a young audience. But young children will ... Read review

Advantages: Its an interactive DVD
Disadvantages: Was expecting a bit more of an adventure.

...I got given this Interactive DVDn just the other day. Being an old school Dungeon & Dragons fan I thought this would be interesting. I was right this interactive game was just like the old D&D Books where you have to choose the correct path or face the consequences. The 3-D graphics are pretty cool and I put on some 3-D glasses to try and enhance them, but this didn't seem to make any difference. It did however make my eyes ache. So it wasn't long before they came of. The graphics can also be a bit flicky at times, mainly after you have made a decision and its loading up the next screen. In the game you take control of three different characters Redgar the Warrior, Lidda the Rogue Halfling and Mialee the Elven Wizard and you must guide them through the game by making simple choices like fight or flee. The object of the game... Read review

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Advantages: better than the first, better relating to the game
Disadvantages: some inconsistances with the original movie and the odd quirk

...~Background~ This is the second film made from the game and supposedly follows on some 100 years after the first film and based on the Dungeons & Dragons paper and dice game which has been going on for an amazing 30 years. Not a game for the imagination deficient or mathematiclly inept, it challenges individuals and groups as dungeon masters unfold challenge after challenge in a imaginary universe of Elves, halflings and Orcs. Games consist of one Dungeon master and up to 4 players (sometimes more), with the dungeon master beigng the only one that knows where the game is heading. ~ Film Summary ~ Damodar returns from the undead, seeking revenge on the city that caused his master to curse him. He quests to wake a sleeping dragon, the black dragon of destruction. Can Berek, Lux and the team beat him to the pip? Will Berek's wife... Read review

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Advantages: Better than the first movie
Disadvantages: Not much better than the first movie

...Being a huge Dungeons & Dragons fan, I found myself greatly disappointed by the first movie, after the hype surrounding it the actual result was appalling, bad acting, terrible plot and poor special effects. When I heard there was another movie in the pipeline I had mixed feelings, there was great potential for a truly amazing movie or they could repeat their first mistakes and produce and enormous pile of dung! Tentatively I started watching. Here I will be reviewing the film only(i'm telling you that now as there is no criteria to fill in below). First I will provide you with a brief summery of the first film as one of the characters makes a large appearance in the 2nd movie. Dungeons & Dragons- "Empress Savina Rules over the magical empire Izmer. The young thieves Ridley and Snails get involved with her quest to find... Read review

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