This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Scourge of Worlds, a genuine AD&D iconic collectors adventure of the finest characters based on the 2nd Edition AD&D package. Regdar is a great traveling soldier, Lidda is vicious, a ranger rebel of former evil, and Mialee a sexy mistress of omnipotent magic and hand to hand combat. Barathion is mighty and Ariadnle is awesome, a omnipotent seeming spiritual entity. My ratings are below as follows, Ratings are 1-5 and a star represents egomania quality Adventure quality: 4 Might&magic: 3 Violence: * Plots&story twists: 2 Animation: 5 Special features: 0 Impressions, sensations, egomania: 4 Special interest(Mialee&Lidda): *

Scourge of Worlds is an interactive DVD adventure. You watch the action for a few minutes, and then decide what the characters will do next based on a few choices.It isn't a perfect system - the choices ARE rather limited, and the producers made the mad decision to remove chapter stops and the ability to fast-forward through scenes you've watched over and over. This makes for a bit of a trying gaming and viewing experience.But as a movie, Scourge of Worlds holds up quite well. The computer animation is marvelous to behold, although it's obvious the production team had neither the time nor the budget that the makers of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within had. As a result, the animation looks a bit clunky from time to time, and on occasion there are obvious errors especially with regards to the characters' teeth. There are also times where the characters move their arms when they talk for no real reason, almost as if they have St. Vitus Dance.The voice acting ranges from the moving to the hilarious. The voice actors for the three main characters (Regdar, Lidda and Mialee) come off best, with Lidda in particular being a quite appealing smart-ass of a character. Mialee, the elf wizard, isn't as unconsciously erotic as she is in the D&D rulebook and novels, but her brassiness sets her apart from the etherial elves we have come to expect from D&D and Lord of the Rings. Regdar, the fighter, comes off as a goofball at times, but he also gets some of the funniest lines in the film, depending on which direction you take the story.But the makers goofed when they chose the voice actor for the villain (who I won't name here and spoil the surprise). Nothing against the actor, who does a good job, but it's hard to take a villain seriously who sounds like someone who has OD'd on helium.Scourge of Worlds is a noble experiment, and entertaining if you don't mind repetition. I look forward to seeing more productions like this, as the technology improves.

For those of us who grew up in the early 1980's with some cable companies promising interactive movies this is a dream come true. The interactive part is great and somewhat logical as to what you can do. That said there are a few minor problems. First while the CG animation is great there are still problems with faces especially in terms of hair or teeth. Second the lighting of the night scenes varied a great deal. It was like watching one of those old 'B' grade films where the director either had little knowledge on night shots or not enough money to do them right: ie in one scene you can clearly see the characters and in the next you can't see much of anything. Finally and more annoyingly while there is a way to skip to 6 of the choices (it is 'hidden' in the help section) they are not set up logically. In fact the order of the first two are reversed! Worse yet three of these choices (the middle one of the top three and the last two of the bottom three) have alternative versions and so choosing one of them can cause confusion if you went another path. IMHO it is a good idea to avoid this part of the disk until you have played the adventure several times. All in all though this is a good first attempt in making use of CG and DVDn technology.

An excellent adventure. I can only hope they will make more. This DVD is the coolest thing I seen in my nine lives. This should be made part of Dungeons & Dragons 101. The different personalities and a story that shows, even the good guys can be deceived to fight each other. No guts or carnage. For an hack-n-slash gamer, that is a bummer, but just to have this DVD, more than makes up for it.You will love the halfling, she is funny, witty, greedy, and looks pretty hot. As opposed to the female elf. Lara Croft she is not. Don't worry, any prudes reading this, it is totally nude free. Nothing at all naughty. And for the gamers out there, one fun thing to do is figure the action sequences to gaming moves. Casts bless spell, she made her save, ooohh he didn't....ouch.This is a must have. Like I said bro', Very wicked cool.