Eragon

Pros: Good cast, great special effects
Cons: Being the first part of a series, it leaves you hanging

Eragon (pronounced air-uh-gon) is a great fantasy movie for all ages. It is full of action, adventure, sorcery, monsters, princesses, and heroes. I have not yet read Christopher Paolini’s best-selling novel upon which this is based, so this ...

Pros: Fantasy swords and dragons epic
Cons: Not particularly grand or original.

My son loves dragons, so a few years ago, I bought him a book by a promising young author, Christopher Paolini. It was a book entitled Eragon and it followed the exploits of a young man Eragon who finds a dragon egg that soon grows to be an actual ...

Pros: cool costumes
Cons: stupid, derivative, story and TV-like direction

"Death is nothing to cheer about." --Jeremy Irons as Brom, Eragon "Saddam is dead." --CNN On the weekend they snuffed the Butcher of Baghdad, I took my family to Eragon, a half-baked Lord of the Rings that does its best to explain what happened ...

Pros: Acting, Effects
Cons: Story is derivative and not fully fleshed out

The kingdom of Alagaesia used to be ruled by dragon riders. These warriors and their dragons brought peace and prosperity to the land for many years. But one of them, Galbatorix (John Malkovich), wanted all the power for himself. He betrayed and ...

Pros: Excellent work on making the dragon seem live, PG
Cons: Felt incomplete, acting wasn’t great..

This is a fantasy movie about a boy coming to age. It takes place in medieval times where kings are wicked and life is hard. The young male population is immediately made a soldier when they come to age which leaves a bad taste in the peasant's ...

Pros: Jeremy Irons, Robert Carlyle, Ed Speleers, Saphira
Cons: Rushed, choppy, undercooked.

I avoided seeing this film, for a long time, and I really did not want to like it. I felt the same way, when I read the book, after about chapter three. Why? The book is a good fantasy story, with interesting characters and lots of action. It is also ...

Pros: Decent action scenes and ok characters. Follows the book somewhat.
Cons: Some characters not like in the book. Storyline moves to quickly and important details missing.

Books and movies are a favorite pastime of mine. If I read a book and then I hear it will become a movie, I am very excited for the release. Thus having read Eragon, written by Christopher Paolini, I knew I had to see the movie. The storyline is a ...

Pros: Good special effects, very good cinematography.
Cons: Weak acting, last third of the movie seems to be an afterthought.

I’m a Lord of the Rings (LOTR) geek. Ever since I discovered, rather late in college, Tolkien’s trilogy and his other related works I’ve been fascinated by the world of Middle Earth. Now it doesn’t border on Trekkie weirdness, as ...

Pros: astounding special/CGI effects in several dragon-riding sequences
Cons: highly derivative; bland and stilted acting; inane and risible dialogue

Based on the best-selling novel by Christopher Paolini, the precocious youth who penned the novel at 15, Eragon may well be a case of movie people hijacking a perfectly good story and running amok with it. I confess I have not read the novel. My ...

Pros: uhhh?, cute baby dragon?
Cons: special effects, acting, plot, script.

I want to preface this review with the fact that this is a child's film, so to begin with you shouldn't go into this film expecting something with the depth and breathe of Lord of the Rings. That said, there is plenty lacking in this film. The acting is ...

Pros: None, well, ok the CG is ok.. Saphira is cute
Cons: Everything.

**Spoilers included*** Eragon is fantasy at it's worst. I've not seen a more disgustingly bad fantasy genre movie since Dungeons and Dragons(2000). Not only is the script bad, it blatantly rips off scenes from other movies. This movie is an ...

Pros: the dragon! Jeremy Irons, the secondary villain, it's fantasy
Cons: contrived & unoriginal, some bland characters with little development, lack of depth, too fast-paced

'about time I'd get down to writing this review. On Christmas Eve of all times! Ah well...saw it a few weeks ago, just been busy with exams, work, family crap etc. Ok, get this...the film starts out on a small obscure farm with a simple farmboy who ...

Pros: Closeness to the plot in book, Visuals
Cons: Safira's voice

Introduction Fantasy Fiction is the current flame of Hollywood movie makers. After the astounding success of Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the mega success of the Harry Potter Series, Hollywood was looking for more Fantasy Fiction. ...

Pros: Looks great; Robert Carlyle and John Malkovich.
Cons: Butchers the novel's story; screenplay and acting unimpressive.

Cutting is not an accurate word to describe what writer Peter Buchman and the editing team did to fit the film version of Eragon into 95 minutes. Butchering is probably a more appropriate term. The film, which is based on the novel of the same name ...

Pros: Terrific story leaves you eager to see what will happen in the sequels!
Cons: Some violence -- NO gore. Our 5 year old was fine watching this.

Moviegoers will relish this fanciful tale as it is brought to life on the movie screen. Christopher Paolini wrote the story of "Eragon", the first book of the Inheritance Trilogy. ("Eldest", the second part of the series, just became available in ...