The recent Dungeons and Dragons movie follows a group of thieves as they try to retrieve a magical horn for the wrong people. This adventure steers the group apart into an unexpected fight to defeat this evil.
What a great time this was!! As a regular player of DnD, this was a blast! It had a lot of hints and Easter eggs to the original game and the ways in which it plays. But even if you know nothing about this game, I'm sure you'd really enjoy this. The movie was well balanced. A good amount of adventure, character growth, actions intrigue, comedy, and heart. It wasn't perfect, but I think they did a great job with this one! I felt like it has been a long time that we haven't had this good of an action adventure.
I love Regé-Jean's character! He is a hilarious version of a dungeon master NPC. The way he spit out the instructions and spoke in this heavily prepared and scripted way was so on point. I wish we would have gotten more development from Doric's character. As a wild shape player in DnD, I was expecting to have a bit more out of her. She seemed to only be cool. As much as a wild shape is broken and OP, she had 0 characterization. I was needing more out of that. I also thought there could have been more work on the VFX, but at the same time, it kind of fit the comedic medieval style.
If the movie would have been a bit more serious, I think this would have been a better film. If you'd had gone in a LOTR kind of style, I think we would have gotten an epic fantasy. Playing DnD is fun and we have a great laugh, but it's more about the epic adventure and the range of character development. I wish we would have gotten more of a hint or a shot of people playing the game. Perhaps someone getting out of character, or something with dices, just to make more of a reference to the actual game instead of the world. But perhaps in a future adaptation of this epic role playing game.
What a great time this was!! As a regular player of DnD, this was a blast! It had a lot of hints and Easter eggs to the original game and the ways in which it plays. But even if you know nothing about this game, I'm sure you'd really enjoy this. The movie was well balanced. A good amount of adventure, character growth, actions intrigue, comedy, and heart. It wasn't perfect, but I think they did a great job with this one! I felt like it has been a long time that we haven't had this good of an action adventure.
I love Regé-Jean's character! He is a hilarious version of a dungeon master NPC. The way he spit out the instructions and spoke in this heavily prepared and scripted way was so on point. I wish we would have gotten more development from Doric's character. As a wild shape player in DnD, I was expecting to have a bit more out of her. She seemed to only be cool. As much as a wild shape is broken and OP, she had 0 characterization. I was needing more out of that. I also thought there could have been more work on the VFX, but at the same time, it kind of fit the comedic medieval style.
If the movie would have been a bit more serious, I think this would have been a better film. If you'd had gone in a LOTR kind of style, I think we would have gotten an epic fantasy. Playing DnD is fun and we have a great laugh, but it's more about the epic adventure and the range of character development. I wish we would have gotten more of a hint or a shot of people playing the game. Perhaps someone getting out of character, or something with dices, just to make more of a reference to the actual game instead of the world. But perhaps in a future adaptation of this epic role playing game.