davemfawcett I gave this a high score if for no other reason than it was a decent job of giving the essence of the first book. However, you would need to do a three hour movie to actually tell the story well, (still leaving out about half, and that isn't going to happen. These dragon lance books are some of the most well written in the DnD world. However, these books would seam dated to the new fan of DnD, where you expect super strong characters with tons of magic. Many a dungeon master used ideas and themes from this series to create there own world, it is a shame there cannot be a Lord of the Rings big budget backing of the Dragon Lance Series. Having said that, I'll take what I can get from those nice people who are trying.

Cat-Star4 I've been a die-hard Dragonlance fan since my fist year of High School(about 12 years now) when I discovered the books in my school library, and fell in love with the world it showed me. They quickly became some of my favorite books and are way up their for my top. I still remember when I found out this was going to be a movie, animated or not, my screams of happiness could be heard by the neighbors and I live in the country. I found it by browsing the acting list of Jason Marsden and saw him voicing Tasslehoff. I had loved these books for so long and now they were becoming a film. I waited anxiously for the movie and bought it not long after it came out. I was a disappointed for a lot of reasons. But let's start off with the pro's first. The voice acting and script was pretty good. The only real complaints I have with the voice acting was the children, but they don't show up very much. The animation that was not CGI was pretty good. A little awkward at times, but it reminded me of old cartoons like He-Man and She-Ra which I honestly think they were going for considering when the books came out. The parts where it keeps in tune with the book are pretty good and sometimes feels like what you are seeing scenes from the book, and the characters are as likable or as unlike-able as their books counterparts and don't seem too out of character (Except for Tanis, but I'll get to that later.)Now for the cons, and is their a lot to complain about. One the CGI and 2d animation DID NOT blend well. It was very distracting on how well they did not fit, and since they encounter a lot of Draconians and Dragons it's just plain distracting and takes you out of the story. I may understand why they did it, but it was still way too distracting every time something CGI would come up. Next is some of the story. I understand the about 2/3rd of the book was butchered out, and I understand why, but they left out a lot of crucial elements and changed things and sometimes even characters to suit the needs. Like Tanis is the major example. I guess they were trying to make him less cliché I suppose by changing his core motivation. In the book his issues were completely different from the movie. In the book his real deal was choosing, to be quite frank here, between his heart and his dick. not this stupid self war in himself between his human and elven half. At the beginning of the movie when he and flint fight the goblins he's upset because his "human half was too aggressive and got the better of him" in the book he was upset because the goblin he was fighting started acting stupid and got itself killed by him before he could get information. Except for maybe some self doubt and slight issues of exceptince his real problem was choosing between Kitiara (his dick) and Laurana( His heart). That was the core of it. Ya, he was searching for proof of the gods, but not for the reasons stated in the movie. On the plot railroad they cut out a very crucial character in the movie. A character crucial to the plot. Berem. He war critical in defeating the dark queen. And also on that note, Fizban is not revealed to be Paladine in the books till Dragons of Winter's Night which is book two. When I saw that I couldn't help but go "WHY?". The rest are little nitpicks. Like Shirak doesn't work the way they use it. It lights up ball on the staff like turning on a flashlight or light-bulb, NOT shine beams of light in convenient directions. When I saw that, I was like "it doesn't work that way!"All in all, it's OK. It's not terrible. It's not great either. there is a LOT for fans to complain about, no doubt about it, but it can also bring some enjoyment seeing the characters you love come to life (sort of)

Ibsen3 Wow! I mean, wow! Spectacular, stunning, unbelievable, world-shaking, beyond all mortal comprehension! They must have really dug deep to produce this. I mean, to actually do all of that painstaking research on how not only to produce a pre-Disney animation of outstandingly shoddy quality in these days of digital genius but to completely and utterly destroy all respect that you once had for Kiefer Sutherland, the Dragonlance franchise itself and the entire movie business. These people must loathe these books with a passion normally reserved for epic romances to make such a laughable, surreal travesty of a film as this....how? How? How? How did it get sooooo bad? It is beneath me to document its failings....so I will leave this review here and let loose a deeply hollow, deeply bemused laugh but, seriously, this is offensive!

TheHande I'm neither a fan of Dragonlance nor do I know anything about the RPGs or novels which this movie is based on but it certainly tried to treat its source-material with some level of seriousness. Taking a risky chance with its combination of 2D and 3D animation the movie produces two types of results for both: embarrassingly bad and surprisingly good.At the beginning the 2D animation limps, appears stiff and flat whereas the CG works somehow well especially with the bigger dragon-animations. When the drakonians step in the typical minions' CG somehow begins to look a lot less impressive than the 2D which picks up from time to time in the battle-scenes. At least there wasn't a lack of effort in trying to make the characters look lively even if at times the characters' expressions and motions look ridiculously cheezy and exaggerated.On the voice-acting, nothing really stands out but nothing really annoyed me either. The frantic pace of the story is probably the film's biggest weakness as it tries to rush through the events of the novel and while it offers plenty of interesting plot-elements the film lacks a dynamic the pace would require to feel acceptable and which is only enhanced by the lapses in animation quality.The film none the less makes a valiant effort in trying to convey the story to film, the limitations in budget are most likely the reasons why the attempt is not fully successful, but the sloppiness actually begins to add some entertainment value to the film as well, so I can't say the whole thing was a wasted effort.This is a guilty pleasure for a fan of animated films, where the story and narration for once make some sense but the animation just can't keep up.