Product: Dragonheart: A New Beginning (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Draco, meet Drake. Drake, meet Draco...
How do you spell "DragonHeart: A New Beginning"? A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, that's how.Clearly the animation is better in the original "DragonHeart", but Drake, star dragon of this movie, looks real enough, if not a little cartoonish.The movie itself is clearly aimed at younger audiences, but I would not reccomend it for children under seven.The story itself is pretty straightforward. A bad guy wants to kill the king and take his place. To top it all off, he wants Drake's heart.Luckily for all of you more serious Dragonheart fans, there are many twists and turns to tickle you silly. There are also some silly jokes (one of my favorites being when Drake's fire comes out the wrong end), but the blood and gore is minimal, which disoppointed me somewhat. But just about everything else in the movie made it where I hardly even noticed it.Geoff is a stable boy who dreams of someday becoming a knight. When he discovers Drake in the dungeon the eager boy and the somewhat shy dragon become fast friends.And the ending has a strong chance of making you cry, though not nearly as much as you are likely to cry at the ending of the original.All in all, "DragonHeart: A New Beginning" is a great movie for the family.