Whether you're a novice or a fan of this world, DnDMovie serves up enough unabashed silliness and epic storytelling to invite anyone in. Our review:
For years, the concept of adapting the vast and immersive canon of Dungeons & Dragons into a successful feature film seemed insurmountable — but there's no denying that the tabletop role-playing game has been given a new resurgence lately, thanks to various campaigns being played out on streaming.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT It wouldn't be a D&D campaign without a cast of well-defined but somewhat misfit characters, and at the head of the group is Chris Pine's hapless bard Edgin Darvis, whose backstory gets spooled out for us rather quickly and in a quite memorable fashion.
It's inaccurate to label Honor Among Thieves a bonafide star vehicle, not when each actor takes the strengths through which they've made their careers and wields them to the best of their ability here. Pine exudes every ounce of charisma that first earned him the role of Captain James T. Kirk and a name in the pantheon of Hollywood Chrises, but Edgin is a much more luckless character than anyone we've seen him play before, which leads to some of the film's funniest beats.
The biggest appeal of Honor Among Thieves, then, lies in its characters and the journey they undergo together, rather than their target destination — which is also the biggest draw about D&D in the first place. In spite of the arguably perilous situations this group finds itself in, there's also a lot of room left for laughs, and the film's writers know how to utilize jokes that not only ease the tension but keep the story from descending too hard into darker places.
Honor Among Thieves wouldn't work half as well as it does without a natural affection for D&D itself, and that element shines through in nearly every scene. Goldstein, Daley, and Gilio have recognized that successfully adapting this franchise doesn't mean flinging every possible Easter egg or piece of fanservice at the wall to see what sticks.
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