Donjons & dragons - La puissance suprême

This is one movie you should really stay away from, even if the subject matter interests you. Being and RPG fan and having played Advanced D&D I have quite a soft spot for fantasy books, movies etc etc. But this is really a disaster of a movie. One could be tempted to think that Uwe Boll was part of this making. It has terrible bad acting (if one can call it that) Viciously bad makeup (check out the lich without a dental plan) and special cgi effects that most modern computer games outdo. The plot is extremely cliché. The old "uberevil" character (that might frighten you if your 4 or 5 years) That want to destroy the world and see everybody dead. Bruce Payne reprises his role as Damodar from the first D&D movie and he is even worse in this one. Then we have the party of 5 that sets out to save the day. Barberian, Cleric, Mage, Rouge and Warrior. I wonder how it turns out? Exiting huh... nope. Add to this the bad casting, acting??, cgi, story, dialog, fight scenes, lack of budget and your getting close. When even the sight of an Ice or Bone dragon can't help to inspire you, then your better of sitting alone staring at the wall for 1h 45min.

Alright. To those of you who believed that the first movie was as bad as it was going to get... you were WRONG. I honestly believed that the first was of poor quality, but now think it is a piece of artistic supremacy after watching this mockery of the DND name. I was once a vivid player, and I recently started back up. I had just sat down and started to set up a campaign, decided to have this running in the BG. After just 10 minutes of this I found myself disgusted and lacking interest in the DND name. I don't even want to RP after that movie. The graphics were like something out of an OLD PS game, the storyline was terrible, and the acting reminded me of a grade 1 play I was part of like 15 years ago. I am outraged that Wizards would allow such a thing to be made with the DND name attached to it. I hope to god that if they ever make another DND movie, they will take the time to ensure it is worth watching and maybe put more than $20 into the budget.

Being a fan of RPGs, Role-Playing Games, I thought I would give this movie a try. So I started watching it. The graphics were cheesy. The acting stiff and forced. And dialog was just out of one of my high school gaming sessions. This was why I quite playing D&D and went to another system. All they needed is for one of the character to yell out, "Are there any Cheeto's left?" and you would have the perfect gaming night. Normally I will watch a movie all the way through regardless how bad it is. There have only been a handful of movies that I just had to stop watching, and this was one of them. Do yourself a favor, watch something else.

It was a fairly decent movie. They had a few of the more obscure monsters, but at least it was more than just a beholder like its predecessor. At least it was better than that sewer slop that was the first movie. The cast was better and they seemed to focus more on the quest than just idiot humor. I had hoped it would help the genre, but I think it fell short of that. I say get rid of Damodar and the city and start over again. Doing that could only help any more D&D movies they may make. If you're a D&D fan, it's worth taking the time to watch it, but I wouldn't buy it on DVD or anything, unless you bought the first one and just want to have the set. It's not worth the money.

I enjoyed this more then the first. There was no slapstick comedy which really teed me off in the first film. Although there was a clear leader, it was more balanced on a party of characters. It was more of what I would expect from a D&D movie. The action was well paced, and the plot progressed well. The SFX were decent. A few times the CG wasn't that good but it didn't really detract that much. Ellie Chidzley as Lux was very easy on the eyes. Hope to see more of her in the future. In overall context of movies maybe 6.5/10. In the context of a D&D movie and to those looking for one I give it 8/10. Worth a view.

You probably have read all the reviews and wonder what everyone means when they say that Wrath is truer to the D&D universe and is better than the first movie (which sucks donkey balls). I will give you an example to clear up any doubts. When our heroes in Wrath met a lich in the forest, did they battle the lich to death in grand Hollywood fashion? Did they hell! They packed their stuff and run for their puny lives -exactly what any normal D&D adventurer would do when a lich is encountered. Fight a lich? Uh huh. And one of the heroes got frozen and eaten up by a white dragon which is always cool (pardon the pun). The mage is hot too. This is why we love this movie. Read bad-ass D&D villains that kick major ogres' behinds unlike the idiot beholder in the first movie that appeared for 10 seconds and floated around looking stupid. In Wrath, the balance in the Force is finally restored. I hope the backstabbing, awesome lich made a return in D&D III.