Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez and Regé-Jean Page rule in dungeonsanddragonsmovie, an adventure that turns pop-fantasy derivativeness into its own form of fun.
Introducing “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” the lavish hyperkinetic popcorn fairy tale that kicked off SXSW this evening, the film’s co-directors, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, told the audience that they had designed the movie to appeal to hardcore D&D players — and also to those who know absolutely nothing about the game.
The game, which has been around for 49 years, was ahead of its time in how it anticipated our collective immersion in mystic adventure fantasy and the intensity of role-playing that went along with it. In the ’70s, D&D was like Comic-Con as a table game — an abstract geek-brainiac’s version of cosplay.
As Edgin forms a fellowship with such winningly offbeat characters as the insecure sorcerer Simon and the shape-shifting druid Doric , “Honor Among Thieves” becomes a gallivanting magic-trick action movie with a dragon so pudgy the characters make a joke of it, an undead cult of Red Wizards who rule their minions with billows of crimson smoke like something out of “The Wizard of Oz,” and a scene of crowd-pleasing macabre cheekiness in which old grey skeletal corpses are raised from the dead so...
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