In the days of Knights and Dragons, Twins are born. The girl Meghan (Bliss-Bell) and the boy Edric (Harries) and both are born with dragon skin on their bodies and both have Dragon-like powers, but not the same ones. Edric sends Meghan away so the villagers cannot kill her for being a witch as she has a talent for manipulating fire. After the king dies Drago (voice of Patrick Stewart) must find the one with whom his heart is bonded with. He finds Edric. Meghan returns with a horde of Vikings and wants to be Queen as she has the right of the first born. Drago, a friendly Dragon, must find a way for these two to end their rivalry.
I enjoyed much of this but I felt many scenes were cut too short and we weren't really given a chance to embrace the times. I thought the main Viking bad guy Thorgrim (Andre Eriksen) would have more of an impact but Queen Meghan (and the script) kept him in place for the most part. The main plot has Meghan stealing Drago's Heartfire and that left Drago ineffective and this affected the whole story. The key to all was how to get the Heartfire away from Meghan. Hmmmm
The CGI was very good but not for the fights when the Vikings rebel and try to overthrow Meghan. Here we saw the camera speed things up to make it look like really fierce fighting, but looking closer we saw that was not the case. These fight scenes were kind of lame.
Newcomers Tom Rhys Harries and Jessamine-Bliss Bell were outstanding in their roles and we will see more of them in future movies. The acting all around is very good. At times, some humor was injected into the dialogues, but not enough to suit me. Patrick Stewart as Drago should have been given more lines of humor, and this would have endeared us much more to the whole story. Didn't happen.
All in all a fairly good tale, but short on realism in that everything was safe and nothing was harsh or brutal as it should have been. This gave this movie an " Oh, Hum" atmosphere. (5/10)
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: No.
I enjoyed much of this but I felt many scenes were cut too short and we weren't really given a chance to embrace the times. I thought the main Viking bad guy Thorgrim (Andre Eriksen) would have more of an impact but Queen Meghan (and the script) kept him in place for the most part. The main plot has Meghan stealing Drago's Heartfire and that left Drago ineffective and this affected the whole story. The key to all was how to get the Heartfire away from Meghan. Hmmmm
The CGI was very good but not for the fights when the Vikings rebel and try to overthrow Meghan. Here we saw the camera speed things up to make it look like really fierce fighting, but looking closer we saw that was not the case. These fight scenes were kind of lame.
Newcomers Tom Rhys Harries and Jessamine-Bliss Bell were outstanding in their roles and we will see more of them in future movies. The acting all around is very good. At times, some humor was injected into the dialogues, but not enough to suit me. Patrick Stewart as Drago should have been given more lines of humor, and this would have endeared us much more to the whole story. Didn't happen.
All in all a fairly good tale, but short on realism in that everything was safe and nothing was harsh or brutal as it should have been. This gave this movie an " Oh, Hum" atmosphere. (5/10)
Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: No.