How could you not LOVE this movie?!

I too enjoyed this awful movie. It's a muddled story full of bright color and cheesy dialogue that completely fails to convey the source material. A wonderful example of Hollywood socialites not having a clue about the ultra-geeky fantasy escape that is "Dungeons and Dragons".

Though, you would think with millions of dollars being spent, they would have spent at least an hour or two talking to fans or trying to capture the appropriate tone. Instead it feels like a generic Hollywood approach to a fantasy formula, relying on B-list celebrities and sub-par special effects to carry it all.

I admit it - my parents were out of the house one afternoon, and this movie was on TV. And I watched it. I must have been terribly bored, but I laughed hysterically at some of the lines: "give me the scroll, or I shall kill you PAINFULLY!!!" I didn't watch the entire movie - I kept changing the channel when I got bored. I can't see ever watching it again, but it was such a cheesy, poorly acted mess that it actually made me laugh. It's only worth watching for the amusement of seeing a movie that illustrates every example of what should NOT be done in a fantasy movie.

Absolutely. If you know what you're getting into, this is one of the most entertaining movies I've ever seen. A few friends and I have a ritual of watching this a few times a year. As far as quality of production and writing is concerned, it's a train wreck, but it's just so fun to watch. Riddled with plotholes and poor attempts to bring Dungeons and Dragons themes into a bad fantasy movie. It's fantastic.

Hell yeah, it was so bad that I LOVED it. You just can't get enough of Damodar's lines like: "Do not let them escape or you shall suffer a fate far worse than that which has been inflicted upon me!" or "I want them found, NOW!!". The people that made this might as well do a movie on Everquest or Shadowrun.

It's a good movie. Not great if you're looking for a wonderful story in an action-packed fantasy movie (go watch Lord of the Rings for that.), but a fantastic movie adaptation of an average D&D campaign. Also, Ridley's dice were clearly loaded. And Snails' sucked.

This film made me laugh more than a lot of comedies. I too wonder whether even those involved in making the film, were taking it seriously.

"We're going to take the ATM machine with us to Mexico."

The best thing about this flick was that it so reminded me of a Sunday afternoon PnP game purposefully left open for a campaign that never happened. I don't know how many times we did that as kids; started a game with some good ideas poorly executed by the DM, left it all open so we could continue with the same characters, and then never got around to it because we made better characters a week later. Nerdtacular.

You know what would have made this work better? A framing story like the one used in "The Princess Bride." Instead of the grandfather reading the story, though, the frame would be Justin Whalin, Marlon Wayans, Zoe McLellan, and Kristin Wilson, dressed as contemporary college students, sitting around a big table in the back room of a game shop, with Lee Arenberg, dressed as an aging hippie/grognard, DMing (Elwood was obviously the NPC party member along to help the DM steer the characters where he wanted them to go). At critical moments, you'd cut to the players high-fiving or bitching at each other and the DM or lamenting a terrible roll. That would have justified the cheeseball dialogue -- it's just what you'd expect from a bunch of geeks playing a game, *not* from professional screenwriters attempting to tell a vaguely serious story.