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Mood:
- StylizedExciting
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Plot:
- Supernatural AbilityGood Versus EvilRescueCurses Spells and RitualsHeroic MissionImaginary KingdomLegends and MythsDanger more...
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Genres:
- AdventureFantasyHollywood ToneActionFamily
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Audience:
- Family OutingKidsTeens
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Praise:
- Blockbuster
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Style:
- Epic
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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- SeriousFantastic
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Look:
- Special Effects
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Flag:
- Mild Violent Content
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Eragon, 2006
English
USA, UK, Hungary
Profile of Eragon
Eragon can be described as stylized and exciting. The plot revolves around legends and myths, an imaginary kingdom, and curses, spells and rituals. The main genres are adventure, fantasy, and action. In terms of style, Eragon has a Hollywood tone and is epic. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. Visually, it involves special effects. Eragon is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being a blockbuster. It is well suited for kids, a family outing, and teens. Note that Eragon involves mild violent content.
Summary of Eragon
Based on the first novel in Christopher Paolini's popular INHERITANCE trilogy, ERAGON is a fantastical adventure in a vein similar to that of the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy and THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA. A classic story of a quest driven by destiny and set in a land where elves, magicians, and humans live side by side, the battle between good and evil, innocence and cynicism, is taken up once again. John Malkovitch camps it up as the evil King Galbatorix, a former guardian of peace who long ago went over to the dark side. He now rules over a land from which dragons have all but disappeared, until humble farm boy Eragon (newcomer Edward Speelers) happens upon a mysterious blue object that turns out to be a dragon egg. Eragon befriends the charming dragon cub, Saphira (voiced with aplomb by Rachel Weisz), and becomes her rider, designating him as the principal warrior in the fight against evil. Jeremy Irons steals the show as the wise and mysterious old man who becomes Eragon's mentor, guiding him through the tasks of saving a princess (Sienna Guillory) battling an evil sorcerer (Robert Carlyle, TRAINSPOTTING), and fending off hordes of the hideous Urgals. All of this will strike the seasoned fantasy viewer as familiar territory, but the formula is given life by veterans Malkovitch and Irons, as well as the young Speelers. The film was shot mostly in Hungary, whose breathtaking landscape combines to great effect with excellent cinematography. The special effects, created by LORD OF THE RINGS' Digital Magic and STAR WARS' Industrial Light and Magic, more than live up to the precedent set by those films, while the dragon is film's true star.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA, UK, Hungary |
| Release date: | 15 December 2006 |
| Runtime: | 104 min |
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as Brom
as Galbatorix
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USA Today
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- by: Claudia Puig
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Peter Hartlaub
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