Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse [Blu-ray]

This review will cover the ist Dragonheart movie and this 3rd one. The initial Dragonheart with Dennis Quaid was, I thought, a really terffic moviein the tradition of adventurous, wholesome, clean (no F words here!) and heroic movies. It had some very funny moments, especially when Quaidand Drago trick Villagers into thinking the down and out knight killed the nasty, smelly dragon. But they got caught when the dragon, pretendingto be shot with a spear fired from a Ballista ,fell into a lake too shallow to cover his escape under water. The villagers saw him and chanted "meat"!and Drago made a very quick exit. The rather unethical scam ending when they had to take on a vicious brutal king who the dragon shared a bitof his heart to save his life. Nice guy, huh? The dragon, voiced by Sean Connery (superbly!!) was brilliantly animated, Dennis Quaid was funny andyet heroic in the end. And the nasty King got his comeuppance!! The photography was excellent as were the special effects. I am a lover ofdragon lore and love films that deal with them intelligently. This movie was both funny in parts and serious in others. Good fight battles and swordplay; real sword and sandal (or boots!) stuff. And of course there was the hot chick. The producers must like red heads, because the chief chickin the first and third films are red heads. OK by me, though I like brunettes. And, of course, a happy ending though the dragon sacrificed his lifeto save the people but went to dragon heaven among the stars; a teary but happy ending. And guess who Quaid ended up with?The third edition of this movie I just finished watching. It is simpler in story than the first but still very entertaining. Theres the nasties as usual,on both sides of Hadrian's Wall but I am still not sure who exactly was the worst. A bad ruler was training knights-to-be but our hero fell out ofgrace with the baddie; on the other side of the wall was another nasty who wanted to take the Wall. He had this cycle that somehow controlledthis cool dragon who was cursed and could not come out into the sun. But somehow he (the dragon named Drago) got hold of dragon eggs, andour hero got on his good side by saving an egg. Anyway,he was befriended by this Red Headed Chick (what else?) and together and for therest of the film battled evil, especially the bad leader south of the Wall. They also befriended this monk like character who was trying to becomea sorcerer but wasn't good at it. Until the end! Our hero (Gareth) had been mortally wounded but guess what, the dragon Drago gave him a pieceof his heart and saved him. And at the end all evil is vanquished, at least for now. I understand this was released only on DVD, but if so, it is verywell produced, with excellent Drago animation effects, good cast and acting and a good story, though I rate the first Dragonheart the best of theThree. The second one is good but I haven't watched it in quite a while and will review it later. This film or films have the classic feel of moviesthat I like: action, good SFX,cast ,story and a HAPPY ENDING!! This a one of those movies that you can see and leave the theater feeling goodabout it and feeling well entertained. I got all my DVDs from Amazon; I do recommend these films: FIVE STARS for the lot. Enjoy!

Because of the nature of the storylines in " Dragon Heart 1", " Dragon Heart 2" I thought it a very good move to make the 3rd " Dragon Heart" a prequel if they wanted to turn this franchise into a trilogy. Many may feel a 5 star rating is generous, but I rate movies not on there budgets but there ability to entertain on there given budgets. I feel that " Dragonheart 3; The Sorcerer's Curse " does just that...entertains that is. Today to many movies get lost in the dependence of special effects & C.G.I. to carry the movie. Good story telling , good character development & decent acting make for a much better movie than a over dependence on special effects. Yes there are C.G.I. special effects in this film but it does a better job developing the characters into people you can relate to & care about. I've seen a lot of the newer so called " Block Busters" that have a grand spectacle of special effects...but what does it matter if you are not invested enough in the characters to really care what happens to them! I don't like to go into a lot of details when reviewing a film because I don't want to give away spoilers or raise expectations to high. I will say that at the price I picked this up for lovers of Sword & Sorcery will be happy to add this one to there collection, especially if you already own the first 2 films. Its always fun after time goes by to revisit movie trilogy's like this franchise and watch the movies not in the sequence of their release but in the chronological order that tells a better story. No Oscars or Academy awards anticipated for these films but you can expect some fun & exciting escapist fantasy on a rainy afternoon or a bitter cold winters night. I would say by todays standards all of the movies in this franchise can be viewed by the whole family. I've seen much worse on prime time T.V.!