Director: Guillaume Ivernel;Arthur Qwak
Actors: Forest Whitaker, Marie Drion
Studio: Peace Arch Home Entertainment
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

38 reviews

Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.5

MPN: PAE-47250
UPC: 625828472503
EAN: 0625828472503

Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: June 23, 2009
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Features:

•	DRAGON HUNTERS - BLU RAY (BLU-RAY DISC)

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Studio: Peace Arch Home Entertain Release Date: 06/23/2009

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Dragon Hunters March 3, 2010
RCI91 (Texas)
Unbelievable animation, and story. Enjoyable characters. I will certainly add other FUTURIKON films to our collection.

1 out of 5 stars

Animation without Story, "Comedy" without Humor February 21, 2010
Ana Mardoll (United States)
Dragon Hunters / B001U3D88M

"Dragon Hunters" feels like the sort of film you would get if you gave a rather large budget to a bunch of animation film school grad students and told them to go nuts. It's very pretty, but there's only a skeleton of a story to hang onto, and the "comedy" is never funny and often disturbing.

Let's drill into the comedy first, and get it out of the way: there isn't any. Nearly all of the "comedy" is in the form of body jokes of a strangely suggestive nature - the blind king, when sizing up a potential warrior, isn't convinced of his manliness until he has had a chance to handle the warrior's package. This really isn't, ah, plot relevant, so why was it included here? The stick held over the heroes' heads to get them to complete their mission isn't jail time or anything so mundane - no, it's the threat that if they refuse to complete their mission, they will be "spanked" by the king, in public, on their "bare bottom". This point is stressed, frequently. At the end, the "plucky" girl on the team is threatened with this fate and she is "saved" by another, male character being punished in this manner in her place. Seriously, there is a LOT of screen time devoted to discussions of public spankings.

There's also an animal side-kick whose only purpose is to pee little spouts of fire.

The rest of the "comedy" is meant to come from the quirky comic relief character, Gwizdo, here voiced by Rob Paulsen, of Pinky and the Brain fame. You may remember Pinky as having a voice pitched so high and so annoyingly as to give Jar Jar Binks a run for his money. If so, your memory does not deceive you. Because this is a dark! and edgy! film, Gwizdo is a con-man who has no intention of following through on their contract to save the kingdom, but does so anyway because of the Bonds of Friendship. This does not, however, prevent him from going crazy and threatening to strangle a little girl with his bare hands. I digress, though - much of the "humor" involves him hoping up and down and screaming in a voice scientifically designed to burst my eardrums that He Does Not Want To Make This Journey. This gets old, fast.

Indeed, I say that much of the humor involves Gwizdo's protestations, but it would be more accurate to say that most of the entire movie centers around this. This really is the most watered-down plot I've seen in awhile: an ancient evil is preparing to wake and ravage the populace, and our heroes are hired to go to his ancient sleeping place and stab him a few times for good measure. They walk there, through a number of surprisingly lovely yet ultimately pointless, worlds; arrive with no strategy in mind; and pull an unlikely win out of their hair, largely because the hero's family was destroyed by the monster when he was a child, and having him kill it is more poetic. Then they all go back home and Gwizdo gets spanked. That is IT. Along the way, there's no story, no plot, just lovely backgrounds and Gwizdo whining at a rate of four complaints per minute.

If you have a specific need to hear Rob Paulsen talk about being spanked in public, "Dragon Hunters" is for you, but if you'd like a story with your plot, run away as fast as you can.

~ Ana Mardoll

5 out of 5 stars

Great Animation, Lovely Story January 12, 2010
Bast
Great story about how you sometimes choose your own family for various reasons. The animation was nifty. I really enjoyed it and recommended it to all my friends.

5 out of 5 stars

Blu-ray reference quality... December 30, 2009
Crispin Garcia
I will not add another story review to this title since it has been explained many times over. It is basically a children's story with just enough entertainment value to help an adult sit through the movie with their kids. I purchased this Blu-ray after watching a rental copy and being impressed with the animation quality, it is a true reference BD with outstanding picture and sound quality, something that will showcase your new HDTV if needed.

4 out of 5 stars

Great Graphics - Okay Story December 27, 2009
John F. Rooney
In "Dragon Hunters" (2009) little Zoe, spunky and perky, enlists the aid of three weird characters in order to hunt down the dragons. Her Uncle Arnold will pay gold to have the beasts eliminated.
The film has great graphics, imaginative, with big hunks of firmament floating around in space. There doesn't seem to be one overall sold piece of ground. There are castles on mountains in the air.
Zoe turns out to be a heroic little girl. It becomes four characters on a quest, on a journey with a mission, a frequent theme in animated movies. This is not, however, in the same league with a lot of the computer animated stuff out there because its storyline is too simplistic, not highly original or inspired, and the characters are too one-dimensional. They seem to have no history behind them.
Forest Whitaker's voice is that of cloddish Lian-Chu, but his voice is not that distinctive nor quirky enough, not the easily recognizable voice of some other personalities. Lian-Chu's buddy-in-arms is Gwizdo, the operator and scam artist. Hector is the blue rabbit, but no great thought or creative energy went into the making of these cardboard characters.
The movie has some comic elements but not enough.
The big hulk central character and his three little friends are often jumping from one clump of floating earth to another, but for little purpose.
The big guy, Lian-Chu, knits garments which seems foolish to his buddy, but it turns out that the knitting needles are potent weapons against dragons who seem to be dull, ineffective, unawe-inspiring monsters.
It's probably a good movie for kiddies five and above.

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