Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (2008) (V)

Director:

Will Meugniot

Writers:

Tracy Hickman (novel)
George Strayton (screenplay)
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Release Date:

15 January 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Adventure | Fantasy

Tagline:

The heroes of Krynn take a stand against evil!

Plot:

A barbarian woman with a miraculous healing staff gains the help of a group of to-be heroes as an army of dragons invades the land.

Plot Keywords:

Dragon | Knight | Sword And Sorcery | Goblin | Unicorn

Cast

Michael Rosenbaum	...	Tanthalas 'Tanis' Half-Elven (voice)
Kiefer Sutherland	...	Raistlin Majere (voice)
Lucy Lawless	...	Goldmoon (voice)
Fred Tatasciore	...	Flint Fireforge / Fewmaster Toede (voice)
Michelle Trachtenberg	...	Tika (voice)
Rino Romano	...	Caramon Majere (voice)
Jason Marsden	...	Tasslehoff Burrfoot (voice)
Neil Ross	...	Fizban The Fabulous (voice)
Marc Worden	...	Sturm Brightblade (voice)
Phil LaMarr	...	Riverwind / Gilthanas (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dee Bradley Baker	...	Pyros (voice)
Juliette Clair	...	Onyx (voice)
Nika Futterman	...	Takhisis (voice)
Caroline Gelabert	...	Laurana (voice)
Ben L. McCain	...	Elistan (voice)
Jentle Phoenix	...	Bupu (voice)
Susan Silo	...	Flamestrike (voice)
David Sobolov	...	Verminaard
Mari Weiss	...	The Forestmaster (voice)

Directed by
Will Meugniot

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Tracy Hickman		novel
George Strayton		screenplay
Margaret Weis		novel

Produced by
Christian Arnold-Beutel	....	executive producer
Arthur Cohen	....	producer
Barr B. Potter	....	co-executive producer
Cindi Rice	....	co-executive producer
John Frank Rosenblum	....	co-executive producer
Judy Sharinger	....	associate producer
Steven Stabler	....	producer

Original Music by
Karl Preusser

Casting by
Collette Sunderman

Art Department
Shannon Denton	....	storyboard artist
Arthur Nichols	....	senior storyboard artist

Sound Department
Jake Allston	....	sound designer
Roy Braverman	....	dialogue editor
Roy Braverman	....	foley recordist

Animation Department
Mike Bundlie	....	character designer
Sharon Burian	....	animatic editor
T.C. Harrison	....	animatic editor
Boyd Kirkland	....	character designer

Editorial Department
Ken Cravens	....	additional editor
Aeolan Kelly	....	additional editor
George Rizkallah	....	supervising editor
Ian Truitner	....	additional editor
Robert Walz	....	assistant editor (as Rob Walz)

Music Department
Sean Fernald	....	music coordinator
Michael Stern	....	music scoring mixer

Other crew
Gero Brugmann	....	legal advisor: financing
Ben Doggett	....	pre-production assistant
Saul Dudley	....	pre-production assistant
Mitchel Dumlao	....	pre-production assistant
Tracy Hickman	....	creative consultant
Margaret Weis	....	creative consultant

Production Companies

• Commotion Pictures
• Toonz Animation India
• Witox

Distributors

• Paramount Home Entertainment Finland (2008) (Finland) (DVD)
• Paramount Home Entertainment (2008) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Tale (USA) (subtitle)
Dragonlance (Germany) (TV title) [de]
Dragonlance (Italy) [it]
Dragonlance: Oi drakoi tou Skotous (Greece) [el]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for fantasy action violence.

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:PG-13 | Finland:K-11 | Australia:PG

Company:

Commotion Pictures

Trivia:

Due to the small budget, getting Kiefer Sutherland to play the voice of Raistlin was a long shot and not really expected to the production crew until the day he said he would do it.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Various animated errors appear all over this movie. At one point a character seems to have three legs, another a character's hair is white instead of brown. Some chairs have no color to them and seem invisible.

Quotes:

Tasslehoff Burrfoot: Hey! She cast that spell without using those funny words! Why can't you do that, all powerful mage?
Raistlin Majere: She's channeling the power of a god, you dolt. I'm wresting arcane energies from the very fabric of the universe - it's completely different.

Very Disappointing

I rented this movie today and was looking forward to watching it ... big disappointment. It really is sad, too, because the story was decent enough but the rest of the production was dreadful.

Not only was the animation stiff and "cheap," but the voices were, also, with no emotion or enthusiasm. It was as if the voices were just reading their lines deadpan. Then again, due to the stiffness of the arted characters' animation, even if the voices had more spunk in them it would not have helped.

It would be nice to see someone put some dollars into re-doing this movie as was spent on the artwork for the DVD jacket cover. The jacket cover is about the only good thing I can say about this movie.

Avoid renting or buying this one .. truly one of the worst animations I have seen in years, if not THE worst.