Excellent, a Must See

Crappy film

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Oh yes Dungeons & Dragons a game that I never played and a title I know only from the whole memes, gags and of course nerd fantasies. It's a different kind of fantasy movie, and unfortunately not a good way to sum up this movie in a single word is difficult, but the first thing that came to my mind is the word weird.The first few minutes I found pretty crazy and over-the-top when it came to the two thieves and the sorceress I slowly find the movie interesting to find comma after then new characters came and they always more and more on the fingers first Lord of the Rings film to copy my interest. I quickly started to ask myself questions: how much does this have to do with roleplaying, why is Jeremy Irons so overacting overacting why is the Empress so crass under acting, is Marlon Wayans so extremely annoying again? And of all the weird costume ideas I do not even want to start, the people who saw the movie know what I mean when I say blue lips. Why do so many movies and series have to copy the beginning scene from Hunter of the Lost Ark?But my conclusion is the movie is okay. I do not know how close that is to the original series so I can only say that I found the ideas unique and creative broken are on Playstation 1 level but still bearable most sets look cheap and the drama is reminiscent of school theater but nothing else really is terrible Marlon Wayans can be quite annoying but luckily not so long in this movie at least not until the end Jeremy Irons is super entertaining and during the movie he is almost on the level of Nicolas Cage and now and then the music is too actually pretty much what point would also be as said if it focuses only on our three main characters say the sorceress and the two thieves is actually a good trip.

RELEASED IN 2000 and directed by Courtney Solomon, "Dungeons & Dragons" chronicles events in the kingdom of Izmer where the idealistic Empress (Thora Birch) advocates equality between the mages and commoners while the power-mad Profion (Jeremy Irons) plots to overthrow the Empress with the help of his formidable henchman Damodar (Bruce Payne). A ragtag team is assembled to save Izmer by apprehending the Eye of the Dragon: Two thieves (Justin Whalin and Marlon Wayans), a beautiful mage apprentice (Zoe McLellan), a dwarf (Lee Arenberg) and an elf girl (Kristen Wilson).The first shot with Irons hamming it up as the diabolical Profion made me bust out laughing. In other words, the movie telegraphs from the get-go that it's not to be taken seriously. If you can roll with the campiness, this is an amusing throwaway fantasy flick. Imagine the gaudiness of "Star Wars" (1977) if the story were transplanted to a Medieval-like kingdom where dragons & magic are reality and you'd have a good idea of what "Dungeons & Dragons" has to offer. This was a theatrical release that cost a whopping $45 million, but totally bombed at the box office. The 2005 sequel "Wrath of the Dragon God" (with only Bruce Payne returning as Damodar) cost just $15 million and is slightly better because the creators took the material seriously, but it's decidedly TV fantasy fare.The film scores pretty well on the female front with the winsome McLellan and cutie Birch. Whalin and Wayans are entertaining as the two main protagonists, if you can get past their goofiness. People love to hate Snails (Wayans), but I found him to be a likable, amusing character. THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hour 47 minutes and was shot in the Czech Republic (Kutná Hora and Prague). WRITERS: Topper Lilien and Carroll Cartwright. GRADE: C

I made this account specifically to review this movie. This is by an extremely wide margin the absolute worst movie I have EVER seen. I really didn't think it was possible to make a movie this horrible. I happened to come across it while surfing cable channels. It says the estimated budget was 45 million. There is absolutely no way even 1/8th of that money was used in the creation of this joke of a film. First of all, and most importantly, the special effects are some of the worst I've ever seen. That is pitiful with such a large budget. The acting not only is horrendous, but I believe even film students in college could do better. The horrendous dialogue is mostly due to the script. Also, the camera angles are absolutely horrible and the sets are very poorly made. It looks like an amateur shot this film. Even myself, a person with no camera training, could do a better job of creating movie-worthy camera angles. I am at a total loss trying to figure out how a movie with a 45 million dollar budget could be so poorly done. Oh...and the props are the worst I've ever seen in a movie. The weapons look like cheap plastic imitations. This film is a complete joke. If you want my opinion, it's so bad that it makes it appear as though the film makers pocketed the 45 million and didn't spend more than $5 on the movie. The ONLY reason I recommend watching this movie is because it will forever change your perception of what defines a bad movie, because if there was EVER a movie that deserved a 1/10 and the title of being horrendous and horrible, this is that movie. It is just plain sad. It's like they purposely attempted to make the absolute worst, unbelievably bad and fake looking (special effects and props) movie of all time. My words do not accurately describe how horrible every aspect of this movie is. Man oh man.....

To understand the pain this movie brings, imagine slowly taking off your own finger nail, multiply it by ten and then have it last for 107 minutes. Where to start, where to start. For one, the acting is tedious. Everyone brings a hokey performance, especially Jeremy Irons (I do not blame him). The story is bland, the development almost nonexistent, and the ending is the worst. There is zero payoff by the end, it technically just slaps the viewer in the face. The side characters do not need to exist, for they bring no purpose to the plot whatsoever. There is no end to the complaints one can state about this film, from blue tongues to the overacting craziness, plus the worst CGI dragons of all time. Don't watch this unless you enjoy crappy films or want to torture one of your friends.