Dragonheart: A New Beginning

This actually is a worthy sequel to "Dragonheart". OK it misses the magical atmosphere, good special effects and cast but it still is a movie worth seeing.

Good things about the movie are the nicely choreographed fight sequence's and the pretty solid and satisfying end fight. Also the movie provides some successful comical moments.

Still there are some major flaws in the movie. The story itself about the prophecy is quite weak and silly and it's hard to tell at times who are exactly the bad guys, due to some poor casting and bad story telling. Some of the scene's were also edited poorly together. The special effects are far from the best ever but also far from the worst. They look acceptable enough.

Robby Benson (best know for voicing the beast in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast".) wasn't exactly the best choice to voice Drake, he's boring and makes some of the dialog sound silly. Overall the acting is pretty solid by the rest of the cast, of unknown actors.

With some more work on the script, this movie could have been really great. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing a third "Dragonheart" movie being made.

6/10

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I enjoyed the first Dragonheart very much. This new one was certainly inferior to the first, but I found it worth my time. It was released straight to video and that is a obvious sign of lacking. It was short and the plot was fairly shallow, but it did have it's moments especially comedic ones.

It doesn't do the original justice, but its still fun

This following is set in the 10th century , A.D. , and concerns about an orphaned young boy named Geoff (Chris Masterson) living in a stable , he spontaneously meets a dragon named Drake (voice by Robby Benson, while in the first version by Sean Connery) , the world's last living specie . The dragon is being hidden and cared by a novice monk (Hickey) . Drake is the only film dragon that can breath ice . The young boy dreams becoming a valiant knight and befriends that same dragon and join forces with him to vanquish an astute tyrant , Lord Osric of Crossley (Harry Von Gorkum) . The young boy suddenly encounters himself the only companion who can save the kingdom and then his dreams come true , as he soon to be become a beloved hero . Meantime , in the monastery appears a Chinese young girl (Figueroa) and Master Kwan (Henry O).

This is a lack-luster and short-budget sequel made for direct to video and TV . Unlikely premise from the first part to be continued in a similar plot , there is also a last dragon and a young knight that dreams of becoming a brave knight in shining armor and both inspire the people to fight for their freedom and taking on a tyrannical villain . The film contains agreeable performances and is compromised by borrowing elements from original film , as footage from the prior movie is used . In fact , the scene where Drake destroys the windmill in flames by accident is partly re-utilized from ¨Dragonheart¨. It is entertaining and fun but with mediocre computer generator special effects bringing the dragon to life . The movie was produced in a few money by Raffaella De Laurentiis (Dino's daughter) . Musical score by Mckenzie is ripped off from excellent , memorable soundtrack by Randy Edelman . The motion picture was regularly directed by an usual television movies director , Doug Lefler (The last legion) . It's a familiar film but is specially appointed to kids .

Four years after original Dragonheart movie, which I liked a lot Universal released on video this cheap and rather pathetic sequel. I saw it a few days ago and it was far below my expectations, although it wasn't completely a bad movie. If you don't expect too much and don't take it too serious it can be at least watchable and even entertained. But that's all about it.

There is no intelligent story and no true atmosphere of medieval age as it was in Dragonheart. Actually, the story is poor and it has the certain lack of emotional appealing. The characters development was totally forgotten and with pathetic villains, Asians and Kung-fu in the middle of medieval Europe, ice-breathing dragons, silly jokes and worst of all with ridiculous ending A New Beginning was unable to bring to its audience a memorable and well-constructed story.

The same was with the cast in the movie. It looks like the studio was counting every buck making the movie and no one actor and no one character from the original movie didn't return for the sequel. Even if I mostly liked Chris Masterson in his part in Malcolm in the Middle TV series, his choice for the lead character was totally ineffective. Maybe because of his lack of acting experience he was very unconvincing and unable to wake up the audience. Even visuals were unoriginal and poor. It's a case when the term "unnecessary sequel" instantly and unintentionally came to mind without any invitation. Dragonheart: A New Beginning is a typical example of making cheap, uninteresting movie sequel and burying the franchise.

Grade 4 out of 10.

Certainly not as trilling or as well done as the original. Even with all the great actors, it's limited to cliches and other such crap that you can expect from a kids film. I recommend this only for die hard fans of the original. And infants.