Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

jseph1234-262-617488 I must say firstly that I have watched all three of the Dungeon and Dragons movies and this one is my favorite followed by Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness. This movie so perfectly captures the flavor and feeling you get from playing Dungeons & Dragons. The characterizations of each of the Player Character types: A Paladin/Fighter, A Cleric, A Mage and a A Rogue/Thief are played so well that I have to smile each time I think of this is done so well. I don't want to spoil it all but I particularly like the protagonist and his portrayal by Bruce Payne and the role he plays in creating the drama and danger of being an adventurer and to help save the realm.

aloysius_predato As far as fantasy movies go, it is far from the worst you will ever see. This movie did absolutely all it could with the budget that was allotted to it. A boring Sunday afternoon saw me watch both D&D and D&D:WotDG. I did not feel led to review the first, though I found it more or less enjoyable, but not without exasperation at its flaws (namely the PS1 quality dragons). That being said, it is next to impossible to create a true fantasy movie without a extensive financial backing. The budget for this movie was approximately 15M, while the budget for D&D (2000) was around 45M. The budget for Return of the King (2003) was roughly 94M. True enough, D&D is no LOR, but it is intriguing to think what either of these movies could have been with such a budget, especially when I found WotDG much better than Eragon (100M) and Clash of the Titans (125M). While Eragon was impudently mishandled in all facets save costume and design, CotT's visual effects, choreography and production design are its strengths, while those are the utter weaknesses of both D&D movies, directly a product of a vastly inferior budget. At the same time, the CotT's script and storyline is powerfully abhorrent, while WotDG is fairly strong in those respects, at least in my opinion.You could do much worse than this.

Jackson Booth-Millard The first film was based on the popular role-playing game, as is this sequel, the original was a huge box office flop, and I only found out about this follow up being shown on television, it was straight to DVD. Basically evil sorcerer Damodar (Bruce Payne) has returned, one years since the previous events, and he seeks revenge on the kingdom of Izmir and the descendants of those who defeated him. He finds what restores his curse, the ancient artifact, an Orb, linked to the power of Faluzure, and with this he also plans to awaken the dragon to destroy the kingdom. Fighter and former captain of the king's guard Lord Berek (Mark Dymond) and his gifted wife Melora (Clemency Burton-Hill) are investigating toxic gases in caves, where they find the slumbering dragon, and they also find out about the missing Orb. Melora is cursed by Damador in an encounter, and she hides this from Berek, while they gather together a group of warriors, female barbarian Lux (Ellie Chidzey), male Cleric Dorian (Steven Elder) of Obad-Hai, female elven wizard Ormaline (Lucy Gaskell) and master thief Nim (Tim Stern). They set out to find the enemy's lair, while Oberon (Roy Marsden) head of the Mages' Council and his colleagues try to decipher the tomes of Turanian magic, a way to defeat the dragon. The heroes travel through haunted forest, get the attention of Klaxx the Maligned (Aurimas Meliesius), solve some riddle and get through some obstacles, and Dorian is killed. Berek manages to take the Orb while injured Ormaline and Nim are teleported to the clerics, while a transformed Klaxx kills the Oberon and takes his shape, and when Melora returns his true identity is unmasked, before he steals the Orb and kills the King. The dragon has been awakened and destroying the Orb regains all its power, and while Berek rides to save the day, near death Melora deciphers the magic needed to attack the creature and restore her own health. Berek and Lux are ready to face Damador, who no longer has Klaxx at his side, and the heroes manage to defeat and imprison him in the dark dungeon beneath Izmir, all the courageous good guys get their rewards, while the villain smiles that he may be able to return again. I will be honest and say, I don't care about any story at all, as you can tell this is straight to DVD by the terrible quality of acting, the useless attempts of action sequences, and the most often times stupid special effects, it is definitely worse than the original, a rubbish fantasy adventure sequel. Poor!

Grim The Reaper I watched Dungeons & Dragons 1 a few years ago and my god was that bad.With that in mind, I started watching Dungeons & Dragons 2 with a feeling of: "Here we go, get ready for a movie that is the equivalent of being poked in your eye with a screwdriver." Surprisingly, while watching the movie, that feeling never really came to pass. Of course, the special effects don't come anywhere near triple A movies for a movie with only a small budget. The dragons and the Gargoyle were horribly animated and could have been done better. However, the costumes, the environments and the lightning were quite good and definitely worthy of a B movie rating. The characters did feel a bit bland though and could have some more additional backstory instead of the thirty second introductions of each member of the party. Especially if you consider this is a D&D movie where a backstory really brings a character to life. They also felt a bit too cliché and were typical D&D class types like the Rogue, Mage and big girl with a huge sword. But overall, it works quite alright if you are used to playing Roleplaying Games.If your not into fantasy, you really should skip this movie. However, if you like fantasy stories and don't mind the very cheap special effects, you'll probably enjoy Dungeons and Dragons 2.