Dungeons And Dragons (DVD 2001)

I'm not entirely sure what to say about this film. I bought it because it was selling cheap in Woolworths if bought with some other DVD (maybe The Two Towers) and I had missed it when it was on in the cinema and wondered what it would be like.
Let me state straight away that my personal experience of Dungeons and Dragons stretches no further than several of the PC games that are available (ie I never played the actual paper and dice game). However, from these I knew what the world was like and what to expect.

It wasn't what I got! The main problem with this is that it just doesn't feel like a film. The graphics are probably the biggest contributor. The special effects in this film bear far too much relation to an episode of Xena or Hercules to be taken entirely seriously. The Beholders look quite good, but the dragons look terrible and, I'm sorry, I know it's not SFX, but Jeremy Irons' servant's sky blue lipstick is quite frankly ludicrous.

The other problem is that the story is told in a very disjointed manner and is really too simple for the complex world it is set in.

I would think long and hard if you are considering buying this unless you really can get it dirt cheap or just want a mediocre film to waste time.