Dragonlance trailer at Youtube at last!

[The Grackle]

Maybe Saturday morning cartoons from like twenty years ago; they wouldn't show that on TV nowadays...

 

[Pale]

Maybe Saturday morning cartoons from like twenty years ago; they wouldn't show that on TV nowadays...

Well, 20 years ago was when I watched Saturday Morning cartoons. heheh.

 

[blargney the second]

I actually enjoyed it. It reminded me of the original D&D cartoon - so campy that it's fun.
-blarg

 

[Baby Samurai]

That being said I am not sure I like the combination of animated art with computer art. It brings back scary memories of the original LotR cartoon.

Ralph Bakshi did not use computer anything when animating the original LotR film.

He often would often (Wizards, Fritz the Cat etc) paint over film (cells).

 

[Geron Raveneye]

He-Man and Skeletor were on Krynn? Who knew?

Man, I'm underwhelmed by what I've seen. And honestly, if something like Eragon can get a feature movie like it did, and can be hyped to be such a success, why can't they make something reasonably good from Dragonlance? The trailer starts "From a NYT bestseller", and it goes on like a weekend-morning Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

I'm not sure I'll buy this on DVD, even on a discount. :\

 

[Klaus]

We should be so lucky.

Agreed.

The animation looked on par with Conan The Adventurer or that Rambo cartoon from decades ago.

The way animation is done, the 2D animation is final. If there's room for anything to improve now, it's the CGI, which is also fairly weak.

 

[RPG_Tweaker]

Ha, ha, ha... OMFG that was horrible.

Weak CGI grafted into an embarassingly bad 80s-quality cartoon. It looks barely worth even direct-to-video distribution... unless they bundle it with the book.


I'll wager by rough cut, they were refering to the choppy mish-mash of action scenes; that trailer had no cohesion whatsoever.

Because honestly, unless they're going to completely redraw the artwork and rebuild/re-render the CGI, what you saw is pretty much what you're gonna to get.

So be prepared for yet another craptacular D&D film experience.

Why is such an amazing property like Dungeons and Dragons so seemingly impossible to license a quality movie from!?!?!?! They've been trying since the 80s, you'd think at some point somebody competent could pull it together . . . .

Because they don't have a smart producer like Avi Arad working for them.

Remember every single Marvel-related movie or TV series sucked in various degrees until Avi started producing the animated X-Men in '93. Thereafter Marvel has released some pretty reliable entertainment (though Ghost Rider was laughable hack).

Fantasy still lags behind most of the other genres, and D&D has no strong iconic figures compared to literature or comics, so I seriously doubt you'll see anything resembling a Peter Jackson-quality D&D-flavor film any time soon.

I really wish they'd partner-up with the Japanese or even the Koreans. Maybe we'd finally get a high-quality animated movie with some solid western-style pacing and story-telling without their hard-to digest moé iconography.

 

[Henrix]

It seems they go for a retro cartoon style


That was actually really bad - I wonder if it'll even be better than the first D&D movie.

 

[Baby Samurai]

I wonder if it'll even be better than the first D&D movie.

Considering "Howard the Duck" and "Ishtar" were, I certainly hope so.

 

[JDJblatherings]

painful...I'd rather the studio that does Southpark did the Dragonlance movie.