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  • Listen here, dorks. I'm a fan of these Dragonlance books insomuch as they were my gateway into fantasy fiction as a young, impressionable youth. I've also met Margaret and Tracy and they are the nicest people you will ever meet. That said, if you're going to try and convince me that this series of novels deserves the same big screen or television treatment as Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones you've got your work cut out for you.

  • Yea, I've see this animated movie...and I must say its HORRIBLE. I've read alot of the books in the series and there are NONE better than the first six. In fact I like the Drangonlance series (orig 6) more than the Lord of the Rings,which are gr8. I still hold out hope that one day they will be full features like the way they did the LOTR trilogy..They so deserve the same respect...One can hope can't one?

  • This is not bad...but ..need I say it? Japanese make Animation,accurate to the style and story.Americans make....cartoons.

  • looks like 90s saturday morning cartoon.

  • the need to turn this into a HBO or showtime series... if you have read the books you know that the plot alone would blow game of thrones out of the water.. not to mention the characters and the fantastic way they are all laid out.

    they stand to make a ton of money should they do it... each book could be a 10 episode season.. there a good 6 seasons of material with the first 6 books and would be good enough to close it out after that.

    thumbs up if you would buy HBO if this came out

  • They ruined a wonderful series - awful acting, voice actor casting, and direction

  • godawful....

  • The CG Is Undoubtedly Horrible But The 2D I Think Really Isn't That Bad. Reminds Me Of Those Great '90s Toons Like Conan The Adventurer and King Arthur & The Knights Of Justice, Which I Think Gives It A Nostalgic Feel. Real Complaint With This Movie Is Taking A Popular Fantasy Epic like Dragons Of Autumn Twilight & Trying 2 Squeeze It All Into A Single 90min Film Which Only Ends Up Leaving Out Vital Plot Elements & Character Development. Should Have Been Split Into 2 Or 3 Films To Do It Justice!

  • This Shit is a Deadly Sin..

    I want to waste those assholes who did this..

    Looks like it was made in 1988 and not 2008

    And even if it was made a in 1988 by some director and crew above average,

    it could been done much much better..

    This is just awfull.. A Massacre..

    A Genocide of Dragonlance..

  • I am a fan as well and this is very disappointing. The animation is like a kids cartoon. Maybe I am too picky but I am not going to see this.

  • based on the comments here and on netflix, im assuming this video has absolutely nothing to offer. being a fan of the series and genre in general, i feel obligated to at least see it. im not a child when it comes to how well the movie is animated, i understand budgets, as long as their going in the right direction with the story line. im not excited about it, but ill watch this soon :'( wish me luck

  • This movie is bad, and the people who made it should feel bad. Never before has such an atrocity of animation been joined with the lowest levels of voice acting and script writing.

    Shame. Shame on you. The wonderful stories from the novels have been raped and set ablaze.

  • What is wrong with you paramount? You raped my childhood memories!

  • They should of just done good 2d. Anyway i'll stick to the books thanks lol.

  • total crap! I mean I am sick of this! Why there isn't a real good dragonlance movie out yet?

  • This is an abomination.

  • There's nothing more to add.... tottally crap. A fail... only is worth watching if you are a children that never had heard about D&D and fantasy fiction...

  • i loved the books..even though they borrowed from tolkien..

    ive read they are making a live action movie...or trying to..

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  • Why did they even bother? This was horrible. Make a real movie. This is one of the best storys ever!!

  • I have seen this "movie", and I have read the books in my early teenager-years. I still prefer reading.

  • If you want to see a best seller instead of read it more fool you but failing that give "A Game of Thrones' a try released by HBO its the adaption of the first book in the Song Of Ice and Fire series

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  • It looks like a children's cartoon. But the book was geared more toward teens/young adults/adults, so I don't get the kiddy-like graphics. It's such an amazing series, and deserves better!

    But I'll probably end up watching it, simply because it's Dragonlance.

  • 0:39 um...Peace??? Closer to 300 years of Rape, Murder, and Kender "acquiring" other people's belongings!!!!!

  • @SwordlordRoy Yea really!! When I heard that I literally guffawed.

  • I like the 80 drawing style

  • 0:56 Dat copy-pasted army, right in the trailer. Way to go.

  • PLZ IF YOU ARE GOING TOO MAKE A MOVIE AND YOUR NOT PETER JACKSON....DONT

  • it would be hard to find a director to direct a real D.L bc of how long the series is. it would take a life time to direct

  • Looks like an animation project from a group of undergrads. Ok, they can do better

  • what is this for real?

  • oi.....Weis and Hickman have not had good luck with their books becoming movies. Dungeon and Dragons made me cry tears of intense pain as well. oi. just oi...

  • WOTC should sell D&D to someone with brains. I have been reading these books for years, and this is horrid. I would fire the person who did this. I quit playing D&D because WOTC is shit. Nothing they do is good. Time to get someone with a clue back to running D&D.

  • either make it awesome and wow-inspiring or dont bother, my imagination ca do tons better -.-

  • @Switla Ha! If they did that it would suck as bad as LOTR did then! I like animation JUST FINE thank you very much. Don't need actors to play the roles of characters I've been reading for 25 years.

  • i think they need to make a movies live action like LOTR and followed the book i think it would be amazing

  • MY GOSH!!! WHAT IN THE HECK HAVE THEY DONE!!!!!

    Well They should have made a REAL movie with ACTUAL characters. There is NO way Wizards of the Coast made this crap.

  • This abomination does not do the work of Margaret Weis and Tracy hickman justice

  • I'm not sure what exactly I was expecting, but wow this is definitely not it...

    On the other hand though, when I saw Thundercats style Raistlin I laughed so hard I almost peed a little haha.

  • LAME!!!!! i like the thundercats back in the day, but CMON!! do the fans sum justice, we deserve the best they can do, and this was like a 3rd grade art project...

  • LAME!!!!! i like the thundercats back in the day, but CMON!! do the fans sum justice, we deserve the best they can do, and this was like a 3rd grade art project...

  • I just died a little inside :(

  • The animation was so piss poor I couldn't watch more than 5 minutes. The only thing that would've made this production even more shitter than it was would have been the inclusion of Jar Jar Binks. Years waiting for a film adaptation and this is the best they could come up with. A kid could've done better with crayons.

  • So I heard they were making this and spent months trying to decide whether I even want to see a trailer of it - I hate watching 'movie' versions of books, because they usually destroy the whole portrayal of a character in your head - I'd finally decided to watch this trailer but I'm so glad for all these comments, because now I'm not going to now I know it's absolute rubbish. Thank you for saving my enjoyment of Dragonlance books before this undoubtedly destroyed it.

  • I think the people who put this "movie" together first thought. "what is the best way we can embarrass our selves and waist a lot off money at the same time" From this clip I can tell Dragons of Autumn Twilight was the answer. Lucy lawless. ok nut much of an actress but how far do you have to sink to be stuck voicing for crap like this.

  • this is like the stupid dragon ball Z! lamee

  • omg lame, dragonlance is my favorite book series and well.. this looked lame

  • I'm interested in how they're going to put Kitara and Tanis together. Those two are supposed to have love scenes ;p

  • I read the books as a kid and they were fun but even at the time I read them (mid to late 80s?), this would have been embarrassing beyond belief! Puh-lease, this is official?!? You've got to admit that it's a very long, long way from the best fantasy series but makes a good kid's introduction....even so....there must surely be some public domain animation software that is getting a hernia laughing at this 60's-era crap!

  • I did expect this to be better, but I guess I'll still watch it, cause I read the books and all, ... still

  • How did this happen?

  • This sucks. Why not just make it like LOTR or Narnia? That would be fun, and bearable to watch.

  • seriously makes you wonder if they read the books! (im assuming they did) so they must have a damn good reason for portraying Raistlin so wrong. eith..er that or there just fools

  • They should make a wheel of time movie too

    

  • The animation was horrible. The CGI looked like it was done in the early 90's and it just flat out sucked all around. The sad thing is, this travesty will more than likely keep Hollywood away from the Dragonlance stories.

  • i love the books(they're soo good), but this is an insult

  • I Like the choice of voice actors, but, I figured that This would be better as a live action show. Kinda like Sword of Truth was made into a live action. But seriously, They messed up on Raistlin in this movie. He shouldnt be that old looking. Lol.

  • I've read almost every Dragonlance book during the past 10 years, and this movie is FUCKING TERRRRRRIBLE

  • this looks good id watch it

  • I have seen this shit... Damn it to hell.

  • Raistlin's supposed to be thin and frail and like 19...

  • @Nutarei his 21 26 then but he was suppose to look old...

  • Dragonlance deserves oh so much more then that. :(

  • @ilana *than

  • You've taken one of the best all time classic fantasy epics and totally destroyed it. One word....Pathetic...

  • That looked pretty bad . . . as in horrible.

  • FAIL!

  • i do

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  • this is brutal and I am sad that I put my senses through such a tragedy. sad thing is that some one actually produced this which means they were a fan and THIS is their vision.

  • LOL this was so bad. The authors must be groaning when they watched this

  • this hurt my heart.....Dragonlance cannot be a cartoon.....

  • Yeah this was pretty bad.This series is epic however, and therefore should be done right. With real actors and some kick ass cgi. Someone get Peter Jackson on the phone.

  • Hard to believe this is only 3 years old.

  • loved the book, dont know bout the movie, haven't seen it yet but looks kinda bad

  • This film was great. Is there a sequel because the ending was a definite cliffhanger.

  • The biggest piece of shit ever....A disgrace to the Dragonlance Chronicles....Should be destroyed, than repaired,edited, recolored, revoiced....to hell with it. It needs to be REMADE/REDONE by the JAPANESES, in order for the Fans (Including me) to be satisfied

  • Piece of Shit

  • Damn, I remember this movie and it sucked. I saw it on TV and thought it would be interesting, because I kinda rarely see an animated epic fantasy movie. When I first saw it, I had little hope, thinking this must have been an old movie when animation was still young. But as soon as I saw the 3D monsters, I knew that it was going to suck. This actually reminds me of that Warcraft game that was canceled.

  • haters gonna hate?

    First, you should be happy for something

    Second, it was an experiment. If you know a little about the LOTR then you would know they were trying that too, they made it animated first and then they made a movie.

    So please, STFU.

  • @Zbynek9

    Ziom, Ralph Bakshi's LOTR is not only more interesting than Jackson's LOTR, but its also 100,000,000,001 times better than this piece of unimaginative and badly written crap animated by approximately 4-7 underpaid Indians.

  • THIS IS BLASPHEMY!!!

  • lord of the rings sucks

  • How about instead of Peter Jackson they use Frank Miller :p . The guy is a visionary and his movies never disappoint. FOOD FOR THOUGHT

  • 1985 called, etc.

  • Fucking thing sucks!

    I mean really, the animation looks like it was from early 80's....If they would do Dragonlance movies LOTR style, then I would like to see it, but this...this is just utter crap! It's like that Ultramarines movie that is now out, that's utter crap too!

    I mean really, Hollywood is ignoring so many great franchises, like Dragonlance, Artemis Fowl and Warhammer 40k....with proper director's and actors you could make so many great movies out of those franchises.

  • @Balnazzardi There are many others including Dragonlance that deserve a live-action film, like Forgotten Realms, Magic: The Gathering, Warhammer Fantasy, Riftwar Saga, Dying Earth, new Conan, Elric, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Earthsea (forget the anime movie), A Princess of Mars (a real movie of it), Song of Ice and Fire, Terrinoth (the board game series), The Silmarillion, Mage Knight, Hyperborean Cycle, and Discworld.

  • @vgmaster9 True...and I would also like to see Warcraft movies...yea I know they are supposedly working on Warcraft movie, but even if it would ever see the daylight, I dont like storyline of it.They should start from the very beginning of Warcraft's storyline and the books that i've read would all have great potential to turn into great movies...but instead the movie would be set somewhere between Warcraft III and WoW which is totally stupid idea,especially when WoW totally raped the storyline

  • @Balnazzardi A Warcraft movie does have some potential if done right. Other video games like Elder Scrolls, Might & Magic, Diablo, Everquest, Guild Wars, Defense of the Ancients, Dragon Age, Kingdom Under Fire, Bard's Tale, and Ultima could have decent movies if done right. Also, what we really need is a D&D movie actually done right, not the one with Jeremy Irons.

  • @vgmaster9 ye well so far there hasnt been any good videogame movies so far...besides of Warcraft movie there has been some news that Mass Effect, Gears of War, Resistance and BioShock movies would be made...but it's a looong way from mere news to actually see them in theaters, let alone that they would actually be good...especially when it comes to shooters like Gears or Resistance, I dont see how those could in anyway turn out to be even decent...Halo could be the only shooter vidgame that may

  • have some potential to become great movie, if you have seen those short live-action films...and there is still some un-used potential in Halo universe, atlough it's storyline is very predictible and cliche ofcourse, but if Niel Blomkamp had directed Halo movie, it could have actually been good...but if directed someone like Michael Bay, it would be little more than nice CGI and big explosions, without any heart or soul in it, if you know what I mean...

  • @Balnazzardi I get you. Movies like Narnia and Harry Potter never really appealed to me, they just seem to be made for kids and teens. I can't wait to see how Peter Jackson deals with The Hobbit, cause I think it's gonna be a hit. I wonder how James Cameron could make a fantasy movie, just how he did sci-fi with Avatar.

  • @Balnazzardi I dunno, I think this looks pretty epic. I'd definitely check it out.

  • @Balnazzardi - Wizards of the Coast HATES the DL saga for some reason. I guess it makes too much money for them or something. I recall with excitement when I first heard that this movie was being made. Then I watched in horror as the budget was continuously slashed until it was down to something like a mere $1,000,000.00. Sad to see what they did to this great novel. Truly, truly sad. :(

  • @Balnazzardi One of us should get a hold of Peter Jackson (Director of LOTR and King Kong, maybe more) and try and get him to make the Dragonlance books into movies like he did with LOTR.

  • @Balnazzardi LoL I've just watched the Ultramarines movie and came here because it totally reminded me of this one!

    Ultramarines wasn't all THAT bad though. I actually enjoyed it after the first 30 minutes of slow-ass, poorly animated scenes.

  • @Balnazzardi: Even an animated movie would be good. But, for God's sake, let a japanese studio do it. This movie was BAD.

  • @Balnazzardi

    ....I'v never heard of Artemis Fowl. O_O

  • @Gipshaw Really? Well you should defianitely read them, especially the first book is great ;)

  • How DARE they spoil Dragonlance like this?!

  • Xena, how could you?

  • I've read the entire Dragonlance series, and imo, if you're going to make a movie on one of their trilogies, then you need Peter Jackson to do it LOTR style. Otherwise, it is a slap in the face to all of us who love this series!

  • @TheKrystahlPhoenix Totally, agree, I would love if they made an actual serious attempt at re-creating the amazing world of Dragonlance, LOTR style.

  • If you decide to make a movie out of dragonlance, wouldn't that mean that you actually love or at least like the books?

  • this is from the game dngeons and dragons lol

  • It is like evolution went backwards.

  • I'm totally disappointed. Note to self. If I ever have a best selling book, demand to see a clip of the animation before signing away my fantasy epic. I know amateur animators on Deviant Art that could do better than this shit.

  • I'm not even gonna watch this.

  • literally it's paramount too it's like they said here's $100 u have one weekend go make it....

  • Is it just me or they had better cartoons in the 1950's?

  • Is this fan made? or did some people took a drunken monkey as their art director

    and the overused formula (an ominous narrator+great evil+handful of heroes+FINAL BATTLE=epic cliche shit) then there's a sequel that there is also a final battle then another sequel that has a final battle

  • Is this fan made? or did some people took a drunken monkey as their art director

    and the overused formula (an ominous narrator+great evil+handful of heroes+FINAL BATTLE=epic cliche shit)

  • I've wanted a well-done Dragonlance movie for years, and this just looks like absolute shit. Why would anyone deface the books with such a poorly done animated movie like this? Do it right, or don't bother. Where the hell is Peter Jackson when you need him?

  • That's some ghetto animation.

  • @studentofthegospel ghetto and old looking xD this has nothing on the books lol

  • lol where are the white dragons at? that lazy elf wizard >.>

  • What the fuck?! They could not even make a real life movie or at least a propper, EPIC cartoon instead of something that looks this silly?! I mean, why mix hand drawing with POOR computer graphics like that? It's horrible! ... Where can I watch this? xD

  • Such a disgrace to an amazing book series.

  • as a long time D&D player and DM, i now beg with WOTC...

    STOP THIS NOW!!!!!! THIS SHIT IS WORSE THAN LOTR ANIMATED!!

    please do the right damn thing, the right thing since getting the D&D license

    if you want it animated, fine get Pixar, IL&M, or the ppl who did Beowulf

    but not this, this is crap lvl 36

  • how the HELL did TWILIGHT get on here? can't you bunch of infuriating PRE-TEEN NO LIFE ACNE-COVERED WHORES please go run off a cliff.

    that's not a request.

  • all the twilight spam here makes me wanna puke... it's worst than the dragonlance movie...

  • *shoots self*

  • THIS IS ALL WRONG!!!! THIS IS HORRIBLE

  • Somewhere, a grand wizard paladin weeps...

  • I don`t know if it was a bad joke or they were high when they did it.

    It`s like not even real animation.

    For other stupid books / plots they spend trilions of dollars and for this great book they do a shitty movie.

    After seeing this i`ll stick to the books.

    Hope Paramount burns to the ground. :|

  • Here's how to kill one of the most amazing fantasy plots ever written...

    The Dragonlance Saga deserved real movies, and they came out with this shit!

    I feel like vomiting!

  • Actually it's the trailer that sucks, the movie itself isnt that bad. and stop crying over animation. It's way better then all the japanese bullshit nowadays

  • Why bother doing something if they won't do it well? O_o

    The animation looks... horrible, really. The animation in 1978 Lord of the Rings looks better and more natural, and that was nineteen-freaking-seventy-eigh­t.

  • what's that crap 3d animation

  • Remember the dwarf? his name was Flint Fireforge, how very lame...

  • Well, he said the Dragons are unstopable, no? What's the point of watching this movie if the "bad guys" can't lose?!

  • it's confusing how they used 3d and 2d animations at the same time in a very obvious way, it's worth the watch though... (^^)

  • WTF?? Good grief, they could have done alot better with this series than a cheesy, low budget children's animation, I mean they put much lousier movies based off games or books onto the bigscreen, dragonlance has alot of potential. I mean even if they couldn't get all the right cast together, they could do MUCH better with the animation.

  • @Karrigan117

    well this could be a repeat of the whole "lord of the rings" thing, where they did a super cheesy animated movie, then came out with the live action ones that blew the other one out of the water...... u never know.

  • How about using the budget they spent on hiring famous actors for the voices and put it on animation instead? (and a better script!)

  • I still liked it despite the animation crappy cg just because I love the books so much and the story is great, it showed the story fairly well so if they could just put some effort into it It would be great.

  • I'm sure the quality of this animation boils down to what most things boil down to and that is money. if they had a bigger budget for this film then the quality would be there. they must not be spending much on it.

  • well, that just ruined all my urges to watch this...

  • Perhaps in this video looks like a movie but it looks interesting and even cool.

  • Ugh, this just looks awful.

  • Modern Quality fail this is going to fail blog

  • Shit cartoon... LOLLL... They need to learn with Japanese designers to make it good...

  • While this wasn't the best quality; Neither is most Anime if you really look at it. Sure it's popular right now but much of the quality is pure shit.

    That is, unless you think that 20 seconds of an unmoving character with only a mouth moving; or a still shot of a jumping character with swishy lines moving in the background is somehow 'high quality" animation.

  • @Sakyosha It's a matter of appearance, not just outright quality. It has to be visually appealing, not necessarily "high quality" to be good. That's what makes anime like Ghost in the Shell, Samurai Champloo and Full Metal Alchemist successful. Plus some of that "unmoving character" stuff provides more insight than American animation (ie: characters thinking). Though Japanese MOVIES are a totally different style from TV series, so at that point you're judging on 3 different levels, not 2.

  • @Sakyosha Duuude, have you seen the Final Fantasy movies? Now I don't know what you would categorize as 'Anime', but I hope we can agree that those movies are awesome animations :D The people who made this... horrible... movie, should take some lessons with the people who made THOSE movies.

  • Right, because the hunchback of notre dame 2 looked so good because the Japanese did it *sarcasm*.

  • NOOOOOOOOOOO.... computer graphics + animation again...

    it could be a lot better.. DAMN YOU computer graphics...

  • It's a real shame that all this great book series got was this piece of shit indian art movie, its not like there isn't any market for it, the books were quite sucessfull. I will never understand why good stories are left behind and some movies like dragonball evolution get 100 milion dollar budgets...

  • @idontcare444 I couldn't agree more with you

  • ZOMFG! WHY!?

  • o_O It looks awful... !

  • utter failure on WotC part

    UTTER failure

  • Ouch. The pain. Another brilliant literary work reduced to run-of-the-mill pig swill. Ever since I saw Golgo 13 for the first time way-back-when, I realized that computer graphics and animation just don't work very well together, especially when the animation is sub-par. Pfft. I'd rather watch the Dungeons and Dragons movies back-to-back, and that might kill me. You think that of all the money Wizards of the Coast has swindled from everyone, they could have presented something better than that.

  • i cant believe they actually stuck with this. it looks so bad. WHY WIZARDS OF THE COAST?! WHY?!?!?!?

  • At least it would look better if they took out the terrible 3d dragons

  • No one cares about making good quality D&D movies. I don't think anyone ever did.

  • back in the 80's an animation like this could beat He-man

    5 thumbs up...for 1985!!!

  • Couldn't even get past the first scene, I was so disgusted. Companies with a smaller budjet probobly couldve done better. I don't know what wizards of the coast were thinking!

  • this animation looks dated

  • they need to make a movie ASAP. if you loved lord of the rings you would love this!

  • Also... if you mildly enjoyed LotR, you would still love a Dragonlance movie!

    I can't believe they made this... thing... instead of a Dragonlance movie.

    And then they started making lame movies like Eragon and such...

  • @schwartenico IF the movie was made by the team of the lord of the rings saga, I would. But Paramount has ruined the Dragonlace :(

    I hoped something better then lord of the rings, but all we got wa ssomething worst than eragon >:(

  • so bad, such a crying shame

  • they turned lord of the rings into a movie, why not dragon lance !!!

  • You'ld think with all the technology and everything, they could make it look a little more realistic!

  • OH MY GOD how could they do such a SHIT!!! I really can't stand it!

  • @Glon69 if only it wasnt animated....

  • @Glon69 don't worry.

    LOTR had an animated version that not a lot of people liked,

    then peter jackson stepped in after a few years and... you know what happened lol

  • @Glon69

    THIS IS A MOTHER FUCKING CARTOON!?! THIS SHIT IS THE WORST THING THT COULD EVER HAPPEN!!! WHAT THE FUCK WERE THE CREATORS THINKING ABOUT?

  • @Glon69 they really should have made a live action version of this!

  • man , when i heard about this movie i bacame obscessed in finding it , i Thought that , would be an Epic movie , just epic as the books but after this trailer ... my hopes of a good movie from my favortie series of books is gone