Michael Rosenbaum, Kiefer Sutherland, Lucy Lawless
A barbarian woman with a miraculous healing staff gains the help of a group of to-be heroes as an army of dragons invades the land.
DVD Release Date: January 15, 2008
Stats: 412 reviews
I just couldn't get into this. Very traditional (read boring) and simplistic design. Annoying plot and even more annoying dialogue. Watch a Bakshi flick instead.
When I was ten years old, I loved the Dragonlance books. I devoured those motherfuckers and I didn't care that they were cheesy, derivative fantasy pulp; to me they were like gifts from a really badass God.
Today I learned that they made a movie out of the first one and I knew ...( read more)
I loved these books growing up, so I checked it out. It was really cool seeing some scenes come to life, but at the same time the story lost all it's heart and the characters weren't developed in the least.
I was counting down until the film ended, which is never a good thing....( read more)
I woulda' probably ranked this higher had there not been the horrid CGI creatures mixed in w/ the traditional animation. Otherwise, it had the feel of a cartoon from the '80s.
Well, I hadn't read the novel since middle school so I didn't remember much of it. It's amazing to me now how much of it feels like a rip-off of The Lord of the Rings. The 2D animation often looks and feels shoddy, and there is some inexplicable reason why they decided every dr...( read more)
Shitty, second rate animation, a very dervivative storyline, and sluggish in some parts, but not terrible, The impressive voice cast do alot here, and it helps.
Very disappointing. The mix of the two different animations is terrible. Story was pretty bang on though, but the bad animation overshadowed it.
Aside from a pure nostalgia rush (I actually remembered playing the module) this animated adaptation from a fun book was terrible. A great cast was assembled but the writing and animation were so bad that it feels like a satire of a Saturday morning cartoon from the 80's. The fla...( read more)
A film that has been long awaited for Dragonlance fans. Maybe fans could have waited a little bit longer.For the fantasy genre, the story is definitely there. It also moves at a really quick pace with a bunch of fade-ins and outs. This works well because it keeps things fre
...( read more)
No recent reviews.
i'm happy as that they're making a movie, even though it is animated. i'v been collecting the books since the start of the nineties and currently own over 120 of them. stopped for a while cos i just lost track of them all!
they finaly got the movie. bout flipen time. ive read the books so mamy times ive lost track.
cool, just glad they making a movie atlast, read the chronicles 8 or 9 times back to back, over n over.
Critic ratings and reviews powered by RottenTomatoes.com
Fresh (60% or more critics rated the movie positively)
Rotten (59% or fewer critics rated the movie positively)
All Rotten Tomatoes content is used under license from Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes, Certified Fresh, and the Tomatometer are the trademarks of Incfusion Corporation, d/b/a Rotten Tomatoes, a subsidiary of IGN Entertainment, Inc.
Click a thumb to vote on that suggestion, or add your own suggestions.
