Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight is a 2008 American animated fantasy film based on the novel of the same name, which is part of the Dungeons and Dragons franchise.

Plot
A group of heroes band together to protect their land from an approaching army of dragons.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) In case you couldn't guess by the plot section, the plot is so boiler plate and unoriginal that it feels like fanfiction. Even the books this movie was based on were criticized for being derivative of much better fantasy stories in the 80s.
 * 2) Utterly horrendous animation that makes it look worse than a 70s animated show, character designs are also painfully lazy.
 * 3) As if the animation being clearly rushed wasn't bad enough, it also is completely mismatched, not just the lip synching (which you may have guessed), but there's scenes that are supposed to be dramatic at inappropriate times, clips and backgrounds that don't match the rest of the scene, and facial expressions that are inappropriate for the emotion that's supposed to be expressed.
 * 4) The plot is a very generic DND campaign (as the authors based the whole series off of that) with no interesting or unique story beats. In fact, many of them are very childish like raiding the lair of a sleeping dragon.
 * 5) As if the 2d animation wasn't bad enough, there are points where they try to use 3d animation for more complex monsters, dragons, fire, and so on. The 3d animation looks horrible on it's own, but it's especially bad when it utterly fails to mesh well with the mostly 2d animation.
 * 6) Horrendous voice acting from the child actors, and they have no excuse as there have been plenty of good child voice actors.
 * 7) Many of the problems with the books on the Dreadful Literature wiki are the exact same here.
 * 8) The characters are either unoriginal, unlikeable, or both.
 * 9) Fizban is a direct ripoff of Gandalf, only unlike Gandalf, he shows up with crucial pieces of evidence and power long after they're overdue.
 * 10) Tanis Half-Elven is a blatant Gary-Stu who complains about being half-human half-elven all the time and panics over minor things. He's supposed to be the leader of the group, but is ironically a pretty big liability, and his internal struggles play virtually no role in the overall story.
 * 11) Goldmoon is a blatant Mary Sue with no personality. She's also the only female character in the party and is a healer.
 * 12) Raistlin Majere is a wizard who can cast powerful spells, yet never utilizes that power to it's full extent. It's also sad that he's the one with the most personality, even if it's nothing to speak of.
 * 13) Flint Fireforge is the token dwarf of the party and is a direct rip-off of Gimli from Lord of the Rings.
 * 14) Tasslehoff Burrfoot is the typical "loveable pickpocket who somehow redeems himself" stereotype.
 * 15) Sturm Brightblade is a typical knight.
 * 16) Riverwind is a stereotypical racist towards elves (or the Half-Elven Tanis) who almost gets into fights but of course redeems himself.
 * 17) They're supposed to have been a group of heroes who disbanded years ago, but they almost always act like they're meeting each other for the first time.
 * 18) It tries too hard to be dark and edgy at times, but fails partially due to the decreased graphic content (PG13 rating) and also because of the poor, generic storytelling.
 * 19) The book was almost 500 pages long, yet this movie is only 90 minutes, that should give you some indication of how much of it is exposition.
 * 20) It also tries to force a religious message on the people with it's fictional religions, especially when we barely even encounter any of them.
 * 21) They literally fly Pegasus horses to one area, why didn't they have those long before now?
 * 22) You literally can't understand anything the Forest Master says.



Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Decent voice acting from much of the cast, especially Kiefer Sutherland despite the horribly mismatched animation.
 * 2) The animation can often be so bad that it's funny.



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