The movie itself lacked in many important areas that caused my enjoyment to be seriously hindered. The most glaring of the problems were the paper-thin characters and the delivery of the film. While the two thieves Riddly and Snails (although a Waynes was casted) acted much like a normal character should, the elf, in particular, and others, lacked any real enthusiasm and quality or depth to the person they were trying to be.
Another problem was the manner in which the movie introduced the world to the viewer. At first it is assumed that the audience understands the basic ideas of a fantasy world as the setting is laid out but as time progresses the characters constantly refer to themselves as the stereotypical dwarf or state obvious facts like "I'm short, I'm fat, I'm a dwarf." I was expecting on of them to pull out the D&D handbook and read of a class description.
Other problems like misplaced fight scenes with the dragons, while the empress rode on back of one, and the story which seemed somewhat hollow, did the film little justice. Despite these problems, there was a nice feel of D&D in the movie, but I would never watch it again.
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The movie itself lacked in many important areas that caused my enjoyment to be seriously hindered. The most glaring of the problems were the paper-thin characters and the delivery of the film. While the two thieves Riddly and Snails (although a Waynes was casted) acted much like a normal character should, the elf, in particular, and others, lacked any real enthusiasm and quality or depth to the person they were trying to be.
Another problem was the manner in which the movie introduced the world to the viewer. At first it is assumed that the audience understands the basic ideas of a fantasy world as the setting is laid out but as time progresses the characters constantly refer to themselves as the stereotypical dwarf or state obvious facts like "I'm short, I'm fat, I'm a dwarf." I was expecting on of them to pull out the D&D handbook and read of a class description.
Other problems like misplaced fight scenes with the dragons, while the empress rode on back of one, and the story which seemed somewhat hollow, did the film little justice. Despite these problems, there was a nice feel of D&D in the movie, but I would never watch it again.