It's a decent comedy if you're a D&D player and if you lower your standards enough, but it's really only worth a watch with other D&D players, and probably only worth the one.
There are a few decent jokes in the movie, but they're in a large pile of lowest-common-brow-type humor.
The characters will be familiar concepts to D&D players, but really too familiar; most of the party is just the regular band of player archetypes (the powergamer, the murderhobo, the useless guy, and the roleplayer), the DM wants them to play in-character whilst walking the rails, none of them are actually relatable in that you can find anything on which to agree with them, and none of them really change throughout.
The plot of the movie is... actually, most of the plot in the movie is the plot of the campaign, and the campaign is about as linear as any dungeon crawl: nothing interesting happens until the very end.
People who don't already have an interest in D&D probably still won't after seeing this, and people who do will be disappointed the moment they look at it as a film rather than as a collection of jokes. The few good jokes are fun to remember, but only unattached to the entire rest of the film.
Film Worth a watch, but just the one.
It's a decent comedy if you're a D&D player and if you lower your standards enough, but it's really only worth a watch with other D&D players, and probably only worth the one.
There are a few decent jokes in the movie, but they're in a large pile of lowest-common-brow-type humor.
The characters will be familiar concepts to D&D players, but really too familiar; most of the party is just the regular band of player archetypes (the powergamer, the murderhobo, the useless guy, and the roleplayer), the DM wants them to play in-character whilst walking the rails, none of them are actually relatable in that you can find anything on which to agree with them, and none of them really change throughout.
The plot of the movie is... actually, most of the plot in the movie is the plot of the campaign, and the campaign is about as linear as any dungeon crawl: nothing interesting happens until the very end.
People who don't already have an interest in D&D probably still won't after seeing this, and people who do will be disappointed the moment they look at it as a film rather than as a collection of jokes. The few good jokes are fun to remember, but only unattached to the entire rest of the film.