Dragonstrike

Simply embarrassing. This "film," which is an introduction into the role-playing board game of the same name, has been a source of amusement for my old high school buddies and me for years. One of us owned the game, although we never played it, but stumbled across this dreck some years back. It is so awful, so ridiculous, that it just happens to be one of the funniest 30 minutes of your life. While trying to lay out the rules and regulations of said game, Dragonstrike gives you a cheesy story-line played out by cheesier actors in front of the cheesiest excuse for blue screen this side of the helicopter crash sequence in Sudden Death. However, Dragonstrike might just be so bad, that it's good. Some notable things to look for during you're "quest":

1. Deron McBee - Perhaps best known for his days on American Gladiators as Malibu, McBee turns in another muscle-head performance here as the Warrior. The running joke between my friends is that we believe they actually blue-screened McBee's teeth in order to make them as white as they appear in the film.

2. John Boyle (I) as the Dragonmaster - Some one should have fired this guy a long time ago. Hardly believable and hilariously laughable, the Dragonmaster is the Narrator of the whole ordeal. Watch for his "floating head," actually Boyle in a black turtle-neck against a black back-drop. Try not to laugh as he asks you to "kindly cast a 'pause' spell on your VCR."

3. "Smite" - Boyle gives us the crown jewel of Dragonstrike which, I am sure, once noticed will have you rolling. Toward the end of the film, the Dragonmaster goes into an embarrassing monologue about your adventures, during which he states, "...and the evil you will smite!" Look closely on the word "smite," and you will notice that it has been horribly dubbed over from the past tense of the word, "smote," that the Dragonmaster must have gotten wrong during shooting. Apparently the budget for Dragonstrike wasn't big enough for another take in this scene.

Although it may be a short film, DragonStrike is still an excellent tale of good versus evil in a world of magic and dragons.

The plot itself is very well constructed. It deals with an evil wizard named Teraptus, who has a dwarf create a sunstone that invokes a great darkness over the land. A wizard who has escaped Teraptus' castle then meets up with King Halvor the Second and informs him of Teraptus' evil ways. A party is formed consisting of the wizard, a thief, a warrior, and an elf by the name of Greenthorn. They are to travel to Teraptus' castle and "drive a stake through his heart!"

The acting in the film is ingenious, but the dialogue is the true gem. Alan Blumenfeld as King Halvor II is quite possibly one of his best roles. There are numerous quotes in the film that you will remember for a lifetime, and I'm not lying. Lines such as "Stop your petty human bickering! Our cause will serve the good of nature" and "Can you not see the darkness, the unholy darkness that engulfs this land? It is created by a sunstone and comes from the castle of Teraptus." There are many humourous quotes as well that are well placed and well timed.

I would recommend DragonStrike to all of those who enjoy dungeons and dragons related films; but, remember to watch it with a friend so that you two can share the dialouge in unwelcomed situations during conversations with others. DragonStrike could be your very own little inside joke!

Without doubt, the funniest...thing, your are likely to ever view in your entire life. The opening lines set the tone for how corny and cheesy the video is. They have a dorky looking dude in a black turtle neck in front of a black background that says "Feeling brave tonight..." thats supposed to be this spooky floating head. It goes through a sample adventure of this crap, yet fun RPG which is similar to a stripped down form of D&D. The animation is laughable- its half live action, half cartoon. The plot is just plain silly. Its a great beer movie to watch with some close friends. The one liners in it are so bad, you cant help but to turn them into inside jokes. Feeling brave tonight? HAhaha! Now your working together! You don't host this banquet, DEATH hosts this banquet! Just so you know, here are the names of the so called heroes: Warrior, Wizard, Thief and Elf.

If that alone doesn't make you laugh, I am not sure what will...

Dragonstrike is a board game that was created to be a sort of introduction to the popular Dungeons & Dragons game, as it was made by the same company in order to compete with HeroQuest, a D&D-like game created by Milton Bradley which was praised for being easy to learn and play. For Dragonstrike, the company decided to release a VHS tape to explain how the game works.

The 33-minute video is basically a mini-movie, as it has the Dragon Master (who almost looks like a dismembered head as his shirt seems to blend in with the pitch black background) as he leads four unseen players in a scenario, where four heroes band together to storm the castle of an evil wizard who has plunged the realm into eternal night. As an instruction video, it does give some info, but it's safe the say the movie is done to the point where it is considered very cheesy. The acting is silly and the film uses green screen a lot to display the medieval setting of the game. Also, the video does have scenes of gore and dismemberment, and the monsters can be cheesy (from the suit actors playing orcs and death knights to the animated monstrocity known as the Man-Scorpion). At the end, the Dragonmaster does give tips for those who take his role. including playing fair and making the scenario exciting. For a cheesy film, it is pretty entertaining and shows how the game is played

Oh man, this movie hurt me in a way that no other movie has hurt me before. I recently had a war with my friend, we would show each other the worst movies we could find and we'd see who gave up first. We saw such movies as "Silent Night Bloody Night" "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed Up Zombies" (Not the MST3K version)"In The Woods" and many other horrid movies. I know what a bad movie is, I thought I had won the war with "Fay's 12 Days of Christmas" but then he pulls out the big guns with "Dragonstrike."

This movie was 30 minutes of bleh. You know those movies like Jurassic Park that are like 2 hours but feel like 15 minutes cause they are so good? Well this is the same thing, except this 30 minute movie feels like it goes on for days.

Don't believe me? Fine, go ahead and watch it, but I ask you, can you survive Dragonstrike? I didn't.