The Disks of Mishakal

Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Lucy Lawless, Michael Rosenbaum, & Michelle Trachtenberg
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Director: Will Meugniot

Script: While the producers did manage to tell the whole story of the book into a 1.5 hours movie, they did so with a lot of rush. Scenes are jumped from one to another, leaving no room for the characters to build their own attachment to the viewers.
2 / 5 stars

Acting: Voice acting are pretty average, probably just because there aren't much script to go around in the first place. Sutherland's Raistlin is a bit overdone, while Lawless fail to stand out from the crowd.
2.5 / 5 stars

FX: The decision to mix both old school animation and CGI is a disaster. The two don't merge well together, and the CGI is not up to today's standard at all.
2 / 5 stars

Tilt: Nothing new here. Just another retelling adaptation from a legendary novel into a seemingly low budgeted cartoon. (I wonder how much they paid Sutherland for this?)
2 / 5 stars

Overall:
2 / 5 stars

The Good: Well finally we have a Dragonlance movie. Good to see the companions on the screen for once.

The Bad: Like the Golden Compass, a lot of scenes are shortened considerably to make the final cut due to on-screen time constrain. Didn't LOTR teach these guys anything?

The Ugly: With the first movie below par, this does not bode well for the next two in the trilogy.

Potential Censorship*: Being a pretty mild animation despite being of fantasy nature, there probably won't be anything needing censorship.

*Malaysian viewers only.