Wandering through Target (Tar-jeh) yesterday, I beheld I sight that confused, intrigued and quite frankly scared me. I saw a DVD for the animated movie of Weis and Hickman's iconic novel in the Dragonlance universe, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Being the fan-boy that I am, I had to pick it up to see if the story I knew and loved had been faithfully or atrociously recreated.
And the verdict is:
I've seen worse. This is, in no uncertain terms, a B-movie. Not in the way Evil Dead or Rocky Horror Picture Show are B movies, because there are times when you'll see something so absurd in those that you have no choice but to laugh. No, this is a B-movie in the way Return of the Swamp Thing or Surf Nazis Must Die are B-movies. No redeeming value unless you place your own value on it.
It does stay at least loosely coherent to the book. Some liberties are taken and a few of my more favored moments are skipped. Keifer Sutherland does a good job voice acting for Raistlin Majere. Phil LaMar was an odd choice for Riverwind - but not a bad one. Lucy Lawless - ... well ... whatever. I did say it was a B-movie.
EDIT (1/21/08): I was going to write more about it, go a little more in depth, but I started falling asleep mid-post. So I hit "publish" and went to bed. I'll try to be a little more thorough next time.
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