Dungeons and Dragons- Wrath of the Dragon God (Widescreen Edition)

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Wrath of the Dragon God, the sequel to the unfortunate 2000 theatrical release Dungeons and Dragons, is a pleasant surprise in that it not only hews closer to the popular role-playing game that provides its source material, but it's also an enjoyable fantasy adventure with plenty of action and special effects. Longtime movie heel Bruce Payne, who played a second-string villain in the first film, returns here as the evil sorcerer Damodar, who uses a sinister magic orb to launch an attack against a kingdom; a brave but untested group of adventurers (all character types from the game) band together to fight Damodar and his legion of monsters. Gerry Lively, a veteran director of photography on numerous low-budget genre films, guides the proceedings with a capable hand, and the script wisely jettisons the aggravating humor of the previous film in favor of straightforward action and derring-do. --Paul Gaita

Description

This sequel to Dungeons & Dragons, based on the popular role-playing game, fills the screen with amazing visual effects of spectral ghouls, diabolical traps, thundering armies and huge winged dragons. The story follows five champions of Izmer who must perform prodigious feats of brain, brawn and sorcery.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
DVD ROM Features
Documentary:ROLLING THE DICE: Adopting the Game to the Screen
Interviews:Conversation with Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons

Customer Reviews:

not as bad as everyone wrote.......2007-08-13

ok... i ll agree that this isnt the best movie ever.. but it has its moments. the acting wasnt that bad... but the movie wasnt like the game that much.. i wanted more traps and stuff... but i bought it and im standing by that purchase.

So bad that it comes back around to good again........2007-07-11

This is the best comedy of the year! Too bad it was supposed to be action-adventure. I would describe the plot, but it really isn't worth talking about. The action? Bad. Special effects? Laughably bad. D&D enthusiasts will probably legitimately enjoy the film... but this review is for the rest of us.

What is notable is the audio commentary. Apparently they couldn't get the writer, director, or any of the cast for that matter. They had to go and get game developers to comment on the movie... and even they couldn't take it seriously. The commentary really is parody as the game designers pretend that they are Orc-barbarians, halflings, and the like commenting on the adventurers in the film. Too funny. Rent it, laugh at it, then return it.

Don't waste your money on this one........2007-06-30

Dungeons & Dragons-Wrath of the Dragon God (DVD)

I guess when Hollywood gets really desperate they start looking for different things they can make a movie out of. You know comic books, toys, board games, computer games, etc. I wonder what's next?

One would hope they'd read one of David Weber's or John Ringo's books and make a movie from it. The Honor Harrington series would be good or the Empire of Man series.

Dungeons & Dragons began life as a quest board game. You know one of those you wander around looking in every door, chamber, or hidey hole you can seeking:

- Tools,
- weapons, or
- Items of power, such as rings and such.

Meanwhile while you're searching something or the other is trying to kill you. These combats are interspersed on occasions with long spells of absolute boredom until the end of the game, if you survive, to have some kind of dramatic, climatic battle

Unfortunately making a movie out of boring game results in a boring movie. The computer game, at least tests your skill somewhat.

In the movie, the evil Damodar does not fear death. He's already dead and the champion must save the world before his girlfriend becomes undead herself. Rotting from the feet upward, so hurry, guy.

There are five champions seeking the black orb that has been hidden for a thousand years. That means that four are expendable. You'll just have to guess at which four go "Tango Uniform".

Now that I've watched it one time I'm wondering who I can give it to, hmm, maybe my stepson who likes Ghost Rider

Don't waste your money on this one.

Gunner June, 2007

Pleasantly Surprised.......2007-06-14

I'm not an art or film critic, just an average Joe that enjoys good entertainment.

I saw this in some random manner, on cable, bored probably. I love this genre, long time RPG player, and fantasy buff, but after seeing the first one, I must have been truly board to watch this.

Imagine my surprise when I was COMPLETELY entranced! It was great fun! Not just following the "rules" of D&D, but telling a good story, with well done dialog and acting, (again, no critic, but I know what I like).

It's not a "blockbuster", I imagine it had a low budget, but very well worth the cost of the DVD. Give this a look if you like the genre, and were disappointed with the first.

Better than the first.......2007-03-27

This is a good solid D&D movie. All the basic character types are represented well in the film and they haven't tried to adapt it to what hollywood think a good movie should be. In the first movie the central rogue character was your typical hollywood charismatic heroic good guy with a comic relief sidekick. There's none of that here. The rogue is what you'd expect. Someone of dubious morals who does most of his things for money.

The traps were well done in the dungeons but the mage who went on the adventure could have been done better, no magic missile or anything. I think she was throwing lightning bolts constantly but they were not used correctly. There even was a cleric of Obad-Hai(shock horror to the bible belt) but I didn't see him use any healing magic.

In general most characters in the film were a little one dimensional except for the main two but they were well done in that dimension.

Btw Damodar is the same character from the first film cursed by Jeremy Irons' mage charcter into a state of undeath for failing him. (The curse automatically went off when Irons died at the end of the first film). So the character is a fighter. With the help of some evil priests in his service at the start of the movie he recovers an artifact and any magic he performs through the movie is through the use of the artifact, nothing else. The Lich even tells him that he's not capable of using it to its fullest potential! He is not a sorceror!

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Very good effort with very little budget. More to this story than can be told in title (read on)
The Warrior and the topless Sorceress
David Carradine And A Puppet Pangolin!
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The Warrior and the Sorceress

The Warrior and the Sorceress
Starring: David Carradine , Luke Askew , Maria Socas , Anthony De Longis , and Harry Townes
Director: John C. Broderick
Manufacturer: New Concorde
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Release Date: 2002-08-20

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Very good effort with very little budget. More to this story than can be told in title (read on).......2006-07-27

Dave Carradine, despite the budget of
some of his A-, or B movies, if you will,
is one of my favorite actors. He can play
anything from millionaire buckskit, Jerry
Spence-type lawyers in Out Of The Wilderness
to these type roles. Remember, during this
period, Ahnuld Schwarzenegger was 'tearin'
it up with movies like Conan (Barbarian &
Destroyer) and Red Sonja (really, that one
sucked pretty bad...), so along came the
Roger Corman, American Independent to make
this midievil type Warrior movie in Peru
(where he would film 'Crime Zone (***) in
'88). Swashbuckling Carradine got into a
bar fight (in his autobiography he said
EVERYBODY THERE WANTED TO FIGHT HIM! Too
many Kung Fu (***.5) flashbacks?!). Since
he broke his right (lead) hand, he had to
film this movie fighting left-handed! The
fight scenes were compliated and spliced
into the 1989 A.I. film 'Wizards of the
Lost Kingdom II (***)', with Bobby Jacoby
and Mel Welles. This was a better movie
than the 1985 original, with Bo Svenson,
'Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (**)'. In
'89's W.O.T.L.K.II, Carradine reprises
his 'Dark One'/Kaine' role from this film.
Others notable things in Carradine / Ameri-
can Indy films in this period; In an almost
sequel to his '88 film 'Warlords (***)', in
'91 he did another film with Luke Askew cal-
led 'Dune Warriors (*)', which is pretty bad.
Oh, I would be less than a man if I didn't
mention that lovely spanish actress, Maria
Socas played the entire movie, here, topless.
Needless to say, 'Warrior and the Sorceress'
was a video rental hit. - R.A.S

The Warrior and the topless Sorceress.......2005-04-29

First of all, I have never seen the film Yojimbo to which many other reviewers alude to as being the "inspiration" for the plot of The Warrior and the Sorceress, so I cannot comment if it is indeed a rip-off, though it probably is. I will say that as far as cheesy sword and sorcery films go, this one is pretty good. Mind you I'm comparing it to others of similar budget and "quality" such as Barbarian Queen or Ator the Fighting Eagle not to Conan the Barbarian or Beastmaster.
The main attraction here is the T & A content, of which there is plenty.(...) This is worth the price of the DVD alone. Also there is assorted nudity throughout the film in case one looses interest in the bare bones plot regarding a struggle over a water well by two evil warlords.
David Carradine plays Kaine or The Dark One, as he is called by almost everyone, who wanders into town and is entangled in the struggle for the water well. He switches sides often, depending on who pays the most gold and is as treacherous as he is cunning and greedy.
There are plenty of groan inducing moments, mainly one in which Carradinde fights a tentacled monster who is plainly all rubber and also a lizard creature who is little more than a sock puppet. In general The Warrior and the Sorceress delivers what it promises, a fun, light story with plenty of naked babes and sword fight scenes.

David Carradine And A Puppet Pangolin!.......2004-06-11

This movie is more boring than painful, but it is bad just the same. I bought it after reading the divergence of opinions here and found it to be mostly boring and mostly bad, with occasional points of light. Well, two points of light anyway. The first point of light: David Carradine plays a character named 'Kain', which is an obvious in-joke from his "Kung Fu" days when he played a character named 'Kane'. I don't know why this amused me so much, but I found that pretty funny for some reason. The second (and larger) point of light is Luke Askew as 'Zeg' in what is clearly the best performance in the movie. Askew is actually a very good actor, although he appeared in this and three other movies with David Carradine (including "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues") and even once on "Knight Rider"! He is, of course, better known for his excellent characterizations in "Cool Hand Luke" and "Easy Rider". Here he is a beacon of light. His performance isn't one of the best in his career, but it certainly beats the other performances seen here.

Frankly, I am a fan of all genres of B-grade films, but the mystical films are not one of my favorite subsets of cheese. This one basically pits Kain, the 'Dark One', against everyone. He is a mercenary for hire to the highest bidder (although the trailer says it is the ultimate fight between good and evil): Carradine spends most of the film switching allegiances based on pecuniary considerations. It is tough to keep up with which side he's on at times, but in the end, inspired by the sorceress he sides with the peasant revolt and helps kill off the pig-faced slavers. Thematically, the film centers on the value of water as a natural resource and Kain's bank account. The movie has comically named characters like 'Bludge', 'Zeg', 'Burgo', 'Blather', 'Gabble' and 'Hubcap'. (I'm not sure about that last one; it is hard to understand some of the names.) Kain's power ultimately comes from the magic 'Sword of Ura' which the sorceress makes for him. It is so mighty it can cut through rocks! Zeg launches an all out war to get it, with the help of the fat guy and his talking pangolin (or is it a Komodo Dragon?) puppet (which speaks, though his lips don't move). Eventually Kane, sorry, I mean Kain takes on just about the whole planet and wins water for the oppressed masses.

This movie has both its share of good and bad. The swordplay is actually very good, particularly in the final scene. The big black clouds that herald Kain's entrance onto the battlefield and the incredibly stupid giant land squid (with teeth!) are leaders in the bad column. Also modestly in the bad column is leading lady Maria Socas (better known for her work in Argentinean cinema with such credits as "Sobredosis", "El Color Escondido", and the 2002 release "Sin Intervalado") who has serious hair issues (though to cut her some slack, this movie was made in 1984) and is really not a very good actress, and is frankly not quite attractive enough to walk around in her given costume (if you can call it that.) She isn't terrible, but mostly looks disinterested.

This movie isn't particularly good, but it isn't wretched either. It is too long, though, at 81 minutes. If it were an hour long it would be a much more entertaining production. Features of the DVD include trailers from this and many similar movies (actually the narration in the trailer made some sense of plot points which were confusing) as well as biographies/filmographies of the four central characters.

Two stars. It won't ruin your life or cause you to seek therapy, but there are many better (and many funnier) B movies out there.

Yohimbeful.......2004-04-24

First there was Yojimbo, then came Fistful of Dollars, and finally The Warrior and the Sorceress! The damsel in distress, the two warring factions in town, the old man befriending the hero, and the hero playing the two sides against each other for greedy profit; you know the story. However, W&S takes us much further...

There are the many unanswered questions teasing (or mocking!?!) the viewer within this classic retold:
1)who/what are those two hysterically laughing mutant dudes? Are they merely a whimsical afterthought to the plot to give the kids some cartoonish mayhem or a Fellini-esque effort to disorient the audience even further in this already baffling world? By the way, what happens to those guys? I think they just disappeared about halfway through the movie. But that's okay, they were really annoying.
2)Why is no one in the movie aware the Sorceress is NOT WEARING CLOTHES? These are some very loutish fellows, but there is an embarrasing lack of leering going on. It's like one of those dreams where you begin to realize something isn't quite right about being naked in public, except in this movie that point is never reached. I mean, by the end, she's even going into battle like that. I'm sure that put the fear into the other team.
3) What is that rat-like reptile? He "speaks" but no one seems concerned that his lips or whatever don't move! On the other hand, he doesn't look like he has much of a brainpan but he's giving advice to one of the head honchos. Maybe that's why they are in such a crappy situation. A failed life is really all about making bad decisions.
4)How does Luke Askew's cheiftan character ALWAYS have exact change? Every time David Carradine comes up with an off-the-wall amount for some lame favor, Askew has it ready in a bag right in front of him?! Now there, my fellow filmbuffs, is where my suspension of disbelief was yanked hard off its disbelief-place!
It was OBVIOUS Mr. Askew was reading ahead in the script and KNOWING what sum Mr. Carradine would require. If only the Kung Fu master had improvised and ad-libbed something like, "That'll cost you 400 takarats and 25 cents!" Ahh, the look on Mr. Askew's face would have been worth the buck ninety-nine I got this tape for at the clearance rack. But I digress.
5)Finally, what the heck is it with the four-boobed lady? Obviously this special effect is where the budget went, because it was quite realistic. Disgusting, but realistic. This quadra-mammary dance sequence IS the most memorable scene. Strangely, it has never been included in those ubiquitous film montages they do at the Academy Awards. One wonders if she is one of a tribe, and if so, what do its men have four of?

In summary, one can't ignore the director's homage to Samurai films of old. The Warrior and the Princess is a worthy addition to the "not very good sword and sorcery in the eighties" movies and at a crisp 78 minutes, requires virtually no fast-forwarding.

The Warrior and the Sorceress.......2004-02-02

You'd have to call this "Yojimbo" meets "Kung Fu." Essentially a sword-and-sorcery remake of "Yojimbo/A Fistfull of Dollars" starring David Carradine, TWATS is remarkable faithful to its source material considering how many goofy in-jokes and hokey special effects it contains (the grizzled wandering swordsman played by Carradine is named Cain, for example). You probably need to be drunk or (heaven forbid) high to fully appreciate this film; but it has its moments of goofy fun, and its a must for completests who need to have every remake of "Yojimbo."

The Warrior and the Sorceress [Region 2]

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Very good effort with very little budget. More to this story than can be told in title (read on)
The Warrior and the topless Sorceress
David Carradine And A Puppet Pangolin!
Yohimbeful
The Warrior and the Sorceress

The Warrior and the Sorceress [Region 2]
Starring: David Carradine , Luke Askew , Maria Socas , Anthony De Longis , and Harry Townes
Director: John C. Broderick
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Customer Reviews:

Very good effort with very little budget. More to this story than can be told in title (read on).......2006-07-27

The Warrior and the topless Sorceress.......2005-04-29

David Carradine And A Puppet Pangolin!.......2004-06-11

Two stars. It won't ruin your life or cause you to seek therapy, but there are many better (and many funnier) B movies out there.

Yohimbeful.......2004-04-24

The Warrior and the Sorceress.......2004-02-02

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