Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight

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Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight

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Michael Rosenbaum, Kiefer Sutherland, Lucy Lawless, Michelle Trachtenberg

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.

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  • Stinger839
    April 29, 2008
    Stinger839
    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.
  • ceWEBrity
    January 17, 2008
    ceWEBrity
    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)it would suck right off the bat, especially when I read that the animation style was a blend of 80s cartoon and CGI and that Kiefer Fucking Sutherland was doing Raistlin's voice. But no, I was curious. I had to watch it. And while I concede that maybe the books aren't as great as I remembered them, they certainly did not deserve this treatment.

    The first matter of business is the voice acting, which is by far the shittiest I've ever heard in an animation. Tanis's voice actor sounds like he is experiencing the most depressing time of his life (and really, I wouldn't be surprised if this was it). Raistlin, voiced as mentioned above by Kiefer Fucking Sutherland, sounds completely bizarre. I love the way he pronounces the spells too - he sounds like a schizoid speaking fake Hebrew. Everyone else is so boring that I've forgotten what they sound like already.

    Second issue: the animation. Sure, I can appreciate that this was done on a shoestring budget (they probably spent all their money on Kiefer Fucking Sutherland), but there is no excuse for this bastardization of the cartoon image. Someone thought it would be a great idea to mimic the familiar 80s style of action cartooning; that is to say, cheap and styleless and done primarily in Korea. Think Thundercats or He-Man or basically anything made in that era. The characters all look like they have cerebral palsy, with their stiff-gaited walking and unmoving faces. Their expressions are truly terrifying, frozen into surreal masks that depict no emotions I've ever seen in real life.

    I guess this was okay twenty years ago, but it obviously doesn't cut the mustard these days, so that same genius had the AWESOME idea to put CGI in the movie. Hideous fucking CGI. The result is this laughable cocktail of shit and lose, so ugly and sterile that it is unapproachable at any angle.

    We all know that just because something is made on the cheap doesn't necessarily make it bad, but sadly, the final nail in the coffin: Dragonlance is just a poorly-done movie. It's unbalanced, cheesy, trite and directed with all the skill of an elementary school pageant. I love how the camera randomly zooms in on characters' faces for no reason at all; it really heightens the dramatic effect. Ugh, I can hardly bring myself to be sarcastically appreciative of this movie.

    But in a sick sort of way, I actually am a little. It did have two subtle benefits:
    a) It's good that Dragonlance is getting more exposure, even if it's in this form. Hopefully this will serve as a stepping stone to a badass live-action movie. What am I saying? There will never be one, and even if there is, it'll probably suck too. Fuck that.
    b) I laughed so hard at this movie I woke up my dogs and brother.

    So yeah. Uh. Do yourself a favor and skip this one unless you are so blindly devoted to the series that you can see past how shitty this movie is. In which case...I kind of envy you.
  • her69eyes
    January 17, 2008
    her69eyes
    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) A huge disappointment!
  • xeowulf
    January 16, 2008
    xeowulf
    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.
  • Beefy
    January 16, 2008
    Beefy
    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)agon type creature in the film would be 3D, but I don't know what it is. And it isn't even good 3D. And how they got Kiefer to play Raistlin... well, who knows. All that said, it was a passable time waster, and scores a little extra interest to anyone who read the novel as a youth and wondered what it might be like as a film.
  • filmguy450
    November 19, 2009
    filmguy450
    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.
  • TariLuinwe
    September 23, 2009
    TariLuinwe
    Very disappointing. The mix of the two different animations is terrible. Story was pretty bang on though, but the bad animation overshadowed it.
  • frstrat
    August 15, 2009
    frstrat
    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)t looking characters engaging in graphic on screen violence makes the whole thing feeling a D&D version of Sealab 2021. Do yourself a favor, if you are tempted to rent this, just go find your old copy of the book. Then you won't be disappointed.
  • psyclock7
    July 11, 2009
    psyclock7
    Not sure how this movie was...but the book was awesome"
  • skactopus
    June 27, 2009
    skactopus
    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)sh by moving the characters from setting to setting without leaving them in one place for too long. The bad part about this is that there isn't enough explanation and backgrounds for characters, places, etc. While the film is still easy to pick up and follow, the lack of depth makes the film that much less interesting. Still, the essence of the story is there.

    One of the bigger disappointing features of this film is in the visual department. It's not that it is horribly drawn, but the fact that is seems outdated for its time. It truly is a letdown. There are a few aspects of the film that are in CG, like the dragons and draconians, which is nice, but in the end there is still room for improvement. As far as character design goes, it is done quite nicely.

    Probably the best part of this film is the voice-over work and it is not just because there are big names involved. The voices actually fit the characters. Kiefer Sutherland, Lucy Lawless, and even Michelle Trachtenberg are all nice selections for their parts. The sound effects aren't too bad either. A few of Raistlin's spells have a nice ring to them.

    This may not be the film that fans have been waiting for, but it still is something. If you are a fan of the book, then feel free to watch this at least once. It isn't no Lord of the Rings budget wise, but it isn't no Blood of the Samurai either, budget wise. If you have never seen Blood of the Samurai, consider yourself lucky.
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