Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
I felt deeply cynical going into this movie after The Super Mario Movie,
an enterprise so deeply rooted in its inherent commercialism.
I am pleased to report that I had a good time!
The word that comes to mind — no pun intended, I promise — is gamesmanship. Every single
actor in this role seems like they are having a good time and not above the entire enterprise.
There are lot of reasonable criticisms you can make of this movie. Characters are paper-thin cliches;
the plotting (as one might expect from a D&D campaign) is fairly inane and holds up to little scrutiny;
the emotional moments feel unearned (besides perhaps the final one, which was fairly heavily telegraphed
from the opening scene.) Nothing about this movie was surprising.
But it was a good time. It felt like a campaign, not a commercial.