Product: Dragonheart: A New Beginning (2000)
Rating: 4.0
Not Dragonheart but still a good movie
If you're looking for something like the first movie you're going to be disappointed. This is a completely different story aimed at families with children with simple morals about friendship and deception. On it's own it's a good family movie with some good action scenes. Rona Figueroa's martial arts were immensely entertaining to my family. The film's climax was a surprise.Both of the film's protagonists were so naive that it had me squirming to watch them fall into the clutches of the evil and deceptive Osric.The session Drake has with Kwan on learning to breathe fire is a hoot!The costuming and sets were on a par with the original. I enjoyed seeing more of beautiful Slovakia.There seemed to be some hinting around at the end that suggested there might be yet another movie in the offing. I am interested in what sort of story they might have in mind. I would like to see Drake with a better developed set of horns!There are a couple of faults I find with this movie: I would have liked to have seen more of Drake and a longer fight scene at the end. The animation was not as fluid as the original Dragonheart. It wasn't awful either. I felt the story was a good one; a longer film would have fleshed it out more.The original Dragonheart stands alone in its genre. I don't think another film will be made that is up to it's par.I appreciate that the producers of A New Beginning did not try to duplicate the first movie; they went in a completly different direction and told a story that is family friendly and satisfying in it's own right.Four stars for a solid family film.