Dungeons & Dragons: Critic Reviews

A mildly entertaining but tepid extravaganza more suited to television than the big screen.

Sinks in a sea of cheesy effects, cheap cliches, dispiriting narrative and the one thing an action fantasy can't afford: boredom.

The disconnects are so strange that with a little more effort, they could have become a style.

Alas, much of the dialogue is the silliest sort of fantasy mush, and a good deal of the picture appears to have been shot while the lighting guys were out to lunch.

This movie may be the clumsiest, most inept cinematic exploitation of an item with kid appeal that we have yet seen.

The average episode of Xena or Hercules offers a more compelling and imaginative photoplay.

This tacky-looking, incoherent, badly acted and hopelessly directed disaster is easily the dullest adventure film of 2000.

Without Irons' hamming, there wouldn't be much to chew on in this exasperatingly plotted mess.

The movie has the cheap software look of something found on the Space channel at 4 a.m.

All the dungeon masters, warriors and illusionists out there who have devoted countless late-night hours to D&D have a right to feel disrespected, if not insulted.

The special effects ... are nothing special, which is as close as this painfully derivative clunker is ever going to get to a ringing endorsement.

The movie reminded me of a trailer for a fantasy adventure, a highlights reel flashing by in pretty colors.

We still like it better than Attack of the Clones . . .

Most of the special effects have that vapory digital look that has become very ho-hum by now.

Any dungeon master worth his 20-sided dice could have whipped up a better scenario.

TV-trained performers yelling at each other, second-rate computer-generated graphics failing to conjure up an enchanted world and Marlon Wayans doing what can only be called a heartfelt tribute to Butterfly McQueen...

Dungeons & Dragons, a misbegotten exercise in abject incompetence, produces all the magic and fun of a slow root canal.

Spends too much time being a game of Dungeons and Dragons instead of telling a story.

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Most of the movie is underlit and dank, which serves to minimize the distinct cartoonishness of the many computer-generated digital effects.

Dungeons and Dragons? More like dragging dung.

This convoluted, sloppily made film looks like it was cut down from a four-hour length with a machete.

It is a diverting adventure.

An out-and-out dog.

Dungeons & Dragons takes itself far too seriously and ends up being just plain stupid.