MoPoshy
Absolutely brilliant
Sharkflei
Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.
Cassandra
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
deus
Let me begin by saying I am a big fantasy fan. However, this film is not for me. Many far-fetched arguments are trying to support this film's claim that dragons possibly ever existed. The film mentions connections in different stories from different countries, but fails to investigate them more thoroughly, which could have given the film some credibility. The film uses (nice!) CGI to tell us a narrated fantasy story on a young dragon's life. This is combined with popular-TV-show-CSI-style flash-forwards to make it look like something scientific, which it is definitely not. In many cases the arguments/clues are far-fetched. In some cases, clues used to show dragons possibly existed, or flew, or spit fire are simply invalid. To see this just makes me get cramp in my toes. Even a fantasy film needs some degree of reality in it, but this one just doesn't have it. Bottom line: it's a pretentious fantasy-CSI documentary, not worth watching.
lordzedd-3
That's what gets my goat, when they advertised this on the Discovery Channel or the Learning Channel which ever it was, they implied that they really discovered the corpse of a dragon. I didn't want to see it, but my brother talked me into it. Then we sat and watched it, then near the end, they said in essence, "SURPRISE! We were just kidding!" I mean, all that hype over finding a real dragon then to spring on us that it wasn't real is just cruel, I believe in the existence of dragons and not telling us that this was just scientific conjecture from the get go was just mean. I mean, if we knew that ahead of time, we wouldn't have watched it. Even though I half suspected it myself. A real dragon discovery would have made the news. The second thing, I don't buy the theory of platinum to create a spark, I think it's more of a nature electric spark in the back of the throat. As a fantasy, this gets 7 STARS but shame on those people who promoted it as real, for shame. I expect more honesty from the Discovery Channel.
firespell-1
This "fiction-documentary" was kind of weird,I first saw it in Discovery Channel with my cousin.But i had to change the channel to E! because the Choise awards were in motion, but anyway when it finished I switched to Discovery Channel but the "fiction-documentary" had already finished.So I rented it.When I first saw the movie i really liked it!But that is because I thought it was real!I couldn't believe it,they had actually founded a real dragon.But then i stopped to think..If it is real why hadn't I heard from it before?So i started a web-search,and then I found out that it was a fiction story really.First i felt weird, as if i had been tricked,then i felt stupid and finally as many of you I felt anger. They had tricked me with they're stupid advertisement which was "Dragons,a fantasy made real".They had never said that it was fake.Anyway, I totally agree with Iggimarco.I would like to sue them.But what the F^%$^...Anyway, the movie has really good camera effects.Thats why a 7/10 is the most suitable rank for this movie.But I really hated the movie to be fiction.If I had been warned that the movie was a "What if..." fantasy I would have liked it much more.Still I was left with one question.."How is it that the Aztecs,the Nordics,the Greeks,the Chineses and much more civilizations talked about the same creatures when there was no way they could have related to each others??"(this question was mentioned in the movie)..Well,I guess it's one of those questions which makes the world a little more interesting and exciting.Anyway,if archeologist's one day discover a Dragon,It wouldn't be the first time that the Miths came real.Let me remind you that some decades ago a giant squirt was found which some years earlier was considered a Greek Myth.There is one chance in a million that the dragons did exist, and if they did eventually we will know.
skoyles
I noticed this DVD for sale at Wal-Mart but being impecunious at the time I passed it by. It haunted me so a few days later I went back and spent the not inconsiderable asking price. Prepared to be disappointed, I sat down to watch it. Utter glee followed. I had seen the previous Animal Planet shows on dinosaurs and was suitably impressed. The hard edge of "nature red in tooth and claw" had surprised me in the earlier productions - perhaps I was expecting "Bambi" - and this degree of reality was welcome. Now for "Dragons' World". Is anyone old enough to remember the first Christopher Reeve "Superman" movie? It's tagline was something like "You will believe a man can fly." After watching "Dragons' World" I can only paraphrase, "You will believe that dragons lived." Produced in the exact manner of its real-life predecessors, including the use of some scenes several times, the flashbacks, the astonishing CGI and a strangely familiar T. rex, the verisimilitude is perfect. Above all the dance and mating of the doomed mountain dragons is alone worth the price of admission. The nearly convincing zoological speculations anchor the whole production. From the beginning we know, as with the dinosaurs, that the dragons are doomed so no one should be surprised by the sadness and tragedy of the story. However, if you love palaeontology, legends and have even a hint of imagination, "Dragons' World" will prove a fine way to spend some time.
