Sunday, March 9, 2008

In wich I review Dragonlance the Movie

Short Review: Oh, fuck my eyes!

Long Review: What a giant turd. The animation was so sub-par for an 80's kids show it was laughable. For a animated movie done with Flash Animation on a PC this was a
travesty. The mix of computer generated 3d animation, and“traditional” 2d was so miss-matched it called attention to itself taking you out of what little story there was. The fight
scenes were literally bloodless- except for one that had some blood spray- which is absurd since everyone had bladed weapons and used them. It was like the kids of the animators that tried to get a job working for He-Man but couldn't because they sucked got hired to do this movie.

The 3d animation was eh. Not bad, but certainly not Pixar level or even Dreamworks. It was too clear there was only one Draconian model skinned, and one Dragon model that had three different skins. I never thought I'd say this, but the animation was worse than the Lord of the Rings animated movie from 1978- you know the one that was never finished. Yeah, worse.


The voice acting, well some of it, was schlock while others were quite good. Specifically Lucy Lawless as Goldmoon. Sutherland's portrayal of Raistlin was done as if he had never read any of the source material. He shouted all the time, and had one or two hacking cough scenes. And no tea.

The written dialog was heavy handed and expository. But I didn't notice since I was too shocked by the poor quality animation.

So, in summation: avoid this one at allcosts.

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