hyped garbage

Expected more

Best movie ever!

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This review is coming from some who has never read the book but watched the movie. But I can see why some fans are disappointed. I guess this movie is for people who have never read the books.From my perspective it is a decent movie for people who have not read the book but are still interested in Dragons, Goblins e.t.c The animation and voice actors were good. Especially since Micheal Roseabuam was in it. I am disappointed though that there won't be a sequel to this movie since there was more about to come and having a unsatisfying ending. But I wouldn't mind if Funimation or Bang Zoom make an anime of this series which might tell the full story. Overall its not a bad movie.

I gave this a high score if for no other reason than it was a decent job of giving the essence of the first book. However, you would need to do a three hour movie to actually tell the story well, (still leaving out about half, and that isn't going to happen. These dragon lance books are some of the most well written in the DnD world. However, these books would seam dated to the new fan of DnD, where you expect super strong characters with tons of magic. Many a dungeon master used ideas and themes from this series to create there own world, it is a shame there cannot be a Lord of the Rings big budget backing of the Dragon Lance Series. Having said that, I'll take what I can get from those nice people who are trying.

To be clear, I have not read the Dragonlance series of books yet so my few is only on the movie.The movie starts out with using a old wizard to try and explain the story up till now but sadly, he doesn't explain enough and the story is lost for a person who had never read the books. And since the artwork is more like a child's show so much that there isn't much blood that you can see in most of the bloody fights, that I doubt anyone who would actually be watching this would of read the books in the first place. In my mind, this breaks the movie even before it barely started. We are introduced to the characters in this rather strange fashion of them saying each others names a bit and them talking a little of their travels including a very cryptic explanation about why Tanis Half-Elven (who I guess is the main leader of the group) left but its all left up in the air as they are interrupted by some smelly orcs and the sneezing of the Dwarf character who I can only guess is allergic to horses because of how he first figured out they were coming.May I just talk about how uneventful the ending was? It does not turn out how you think everything would turn out and yet I feel almost no satisfaction in how it ended. It's all I can say without telling you exactly how it ends.The CG effects are much to be desired. They try to make it look epic and yet cartoon-like but something just feels very off. Everything feels like it should have had more detail to the animation instead of the cartoony stuff. The artwork when they do go into the 2D animation looks very lack luster, as though they were trying to copy old shows for children. Sometimes they have just as much work in it as a flash animation and use looped pieces. There are times when characters are wearing something different then they should at that time. The backgrounds are stunning, don't get me wrong, but the characters lack that same love and affection. There is a very sad line between the CG, 2D animation, and background as though they were made by three different studios. They do not work well together. It should be at least one or the other.The voice acting in some areas are alright, giving a very epic feeling to the characters, but in other parts, there is something really off putting to it. Lip-sinking is one of the main problems with the voices but another thing is that the voices try to be more epic then the expressions that they show. They have it for the 3D pieces but it doesn't look like they have it for the 2D visuals. It's surprising because there are some really good actors like Joson Marsdan who did Max Goof from A Goofy Movie and and Haku from Spirited Away. The sad thing is, he gives the character he plays in here, Tasslehoof Burrfoot, such a high squeaky voice with a hint of rasp that he just becomes annoying. The music is actually alright for what it is, catches the 'mood' of the scene though the mood is lost with the artwork.The show was slightly entertaining but that's pretty much all it was. All its problems tog in the way of me enjoying it and it did not feel like it was made in the 21st century. It felt like something done in the 1980's or so.

How they managed to line up that cast, and then utterly destroy the rest of the production, is beyond me.Animation 0.5/10. It gets the 0.5 because the pictures actually do change. Think the old He-Man show, but worse.Talent 4/10. Fantastic cast, but terribly directed. Flat and monotonous voices, far inferior to the talent levels present. An utter disappointment.Story 6/10. I only watched the first 10 minutes, I simply could not bear anymore. Those 10 minutes did, however, seem to be fairly loyal to the book, which, although excellent, was arguably the weakest of the trilogy, which itself was weaker than the second trilogy. For anyone put off by this cinematic abortion, please do yourselves a favor and read the books. You will not be disappointed.Direction 0/10. There are simply no redeeming qualities to speak of. The movie was horrendously kiddified. Even the books, which are arguably aimed at a teen-aged audience, had a degree of realism. This movie makes Sesame Street look like Pulp Fiction. Considering what the target should have been, given the book's demographic, this is unacceptable. Couple that with the terrible characterization, and I truly hope that the director, whose name I will not speak, finds a job more suited to his abilities, such as flipping burgers or cleaning toilets (he certainly has enough experience with effluent after this abomination).Production: 0/10. Terrible in all aspects. WoTC has made a serious blunder in allowing this film to be produced as it was. Worse still, their ability to procure such a fantastic cast will, after this, likely not reemerge. I cannot believe that Weiss and Hickmann signed off on this.This movie made me hate movies. The director should have a restraining order placed upon him, barring him from ever coming within 200 yards of a movie studio again. Utterly unacceptable.