Variety said this movie is full of Easter eggs for the Dungeons & Dragons literate among us, but also delightfully consumable for people who never played and don’t know a bit about it. The reviewer also wrote that it’s “a mash-up of “The Lord of the Rings,” “The Princess Bride,” “Star Wars,” “National Treasure,” a medieval “X-Men”…and “Gladiator”! It’s at once cheesy and charming, synthetic and spectacular, cozily derivative and rambunctiously inventive, a processed piece of junk-culture joy that, by the end, may bring a tear to your eye.” Well, if I wasn’t in before, I am now, sheesh.
