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Dragon Hunters
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Product Details
| Actors: | Forest Whitaker, Marie Drion |
| Format: | AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen |
| Director: | Guillaume Ivernel;Arthur Qwak |
| Release Date: | 2009-06-23 |
| Aspect Ratio: | 1.78:1 |
| Audience Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Category: | DVD |
| Number of Items: | 1 |
| Label/Manufacturer: | Peace Arch Home Entertainment |
| UPC: | 625828463808 |
Product Description
Zoe is a little girl who believes in fairy tales. In order to help her uncle Lord Arnold get rid of a terrible dragon, Zoe decides she has to find some heroes. When she meets Gwizdo and Lian-Chu, a couple of two-bit, fly-by-night dragon hunters, she decides that she s going to believe in them and set out on an adventure to bring peace to the land.Product Features
* DRAGON HUNTERS - DVD (DVD MOVIE)Customer Reviews
Rated
on 2010-03-12I absolutely loved this movie! It's way more creative than I thought it would be and I'd never heard of it before. I'm so glad that I saw it sitting all by itself at Movie Gallery, begging to be rented and enjoyed!
And with these types of movies you cannot compare them to reality. If you like to do so, don't watch it and don't bring the rating down. Especially you, the person who gave it two stars... yeah, you, the guy with a stick up your !@#$%.
Rated
on 2010-03-03Unbelievable animation, and story. Enjoyable characters. I will certainly add other FUTURIKON films to our collection.
Rated
on 2010-02-21Dragon Hunters / B001U3D88M
"Dragon Hunters" feels like the sort of film you would get if you gave a rather large budget to a bunch of animation film school grad students and told them to go nuts. It's very pretty, but there's only a skeleton of a story to hang onto, and the "comedy" is never funny and often disturbing.
Let's drill into the comedy first, and get it out of the way: there isn't any. Nearly all of the "comedy" is in the form of body jokes of a strangely suggestive nature - the blind king, when sizing up a potential warrior, isn't convinced of his manliness until he has had a chance to handle the warrior's package. This really isn't, ah, plot relevant, so why was it included here? The stick held over the heroes' heads to get them to complete their mission isn't jail time or anything so mundane - no, it's the threat that if they refuse to complete their mission, they will be "spanked" by the king, in public, on their "bare bottom". This point is stressed, frequently. At the end, the "plucky" girl on the team is threatened with this fate and she is "saved" by another, male character being punished in this manner in her place. Seriously, there is a LOT of screen time devoted to discussions of public spankings.
There's also an animal side-kick whose only purpose is to pee little spouts of fire.
The rest of the "comedy" is meant to come from the quirky comic relief character, Gwizdo, here voiced by Rob Paulsen, of Pinky and the Brain fame. You may remember Pinky as having a voice pitched so high and so annoyingly as to give Jar Jar Binks a run for his money. If so, your memory does not deceive you. Because this is a dark! and edgy! film, Gwizdo is a con-man who has no intention of following through on their contract to save the kingdom, but does so anyway because of the Bonds of Friendship. This does not, however, prevent him from going crazy and threatening to strangle a little girl with his bare hands. I digress, though - much of the "humor" involves him hoping up and down and screaming in a voice scientifically designed to burst my eardrums that He Does Not Want To Make This Journey. This gets old, fast.
Indeed, I say that much of the humor involves Gwizdo's protestations, but it would be more accurate to say that most of the entire movie centers around this. This really is the most watered-down plot I've seen in awhile: an ancient evil is preparing to wake and ravage the populace, and our heroes are hired to go to his ancient sleeping place and stab him a few times for good measure. They walk there, through a number of surprisingly lovely yet ultimately pointless, worlds; arrive with no strategy in mind; and pull an unlikely win out of their hair, largely because the hero's family was destroyed by the monster when he was a child, and having him kill it is more poetic. Then they all go back home and Gwizdo gets spanked. That is IT. Along the way, there's no story, no plot, just lovely backgrounds and Gwizdo whining at a rate of four complaints per minute.
If you have a specific need to hear Rob Paulsen talk about being spanked in public, "Dragon Hunters" is for you, but if you'd like a story with your plot, run away as fast as you can.
~ Ana Mardoll
Rated
on 2010-01-12Great story about how you sometimes choose your own family for various reasons. The animation was nifty. I really enjoyed it and recommended it to all my friends.
Rated
on 2009-12-30I will not add another story review to this title since it has been explained many times over. It is basically a children's story with just enough entertainment value to help an adult sit through the movie with their kids. I purchased this Blu-ray after watching a rental copy and being impressed with the animation quality, it is a true reference BD with outstanding picture and sound quality, something that will showcase your new HDTV if needed.
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