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When i was a kid i loved this feature length cartoon called Flight of dragons.
Somehow my cousin tracked it down for my last birthday(only on vhs she couldn't get a dvd) and i still love it. It is full of really cool charachters and the bad guy(voiced by James earl jones i think) still puts the fear in me.
I was just wondering if anyone else out there had seen this movie and if so what they thought of it?
 
This has got to be one of my all time favourite movies. Amazon has it on VHS but believe it or not e-Bay has it on DVD. I was given one for Christmas last year and it's great. Clear visual, great audio. Saw it for the first time when I was in grade school and bought it on VHS when I was in High School. Have not found many people who've even heard of it let alone seen it. I think I know all of three people now including you. :)

Yes James Earl Jones did the Red Wizard Omadan. The dragons were awesome. I really loved the idea that magic was essential to the world; that it inspired all the wonders of science and therefore had to exist even if in a separate realm.
 
Okay, now you folks are getting me curious -- how come I've never heard of this thing before? (See, that's what I like about this place; now my only problem is figuring out how to cram all of this into the remains of one lifetime!):eek:
 
j. d. worthington said:
Okay, now you folks are getting me curious -- how come I've never heard of this thing before? (See, that's what I like about this place; now my only problem is figuring out how to cram all of this into the remains of one lifetime!):eek:
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You have to get it if you can j.d. It's wonderful. Four wizards and dragons in a time when science is just coming into force. The story shifts between the present (age of science) and the time of the wizards. It's basically an attempt by the wizards to create a realm where all that is magical might be safe to live and feed the inspiration and dreams of mankind. The Red Wizard of course is on the side of pure Science because he sees its potential for destruction.

Each wizard has his own dragon. There's Carolinus the green wizard of nature with Gorbash. Solarius the blue wizard of the skies and oceans with Bluenarion, Lo Tae Shao the golden wizard of contemplation with Chin Tzu and finally the Ommadon the red wizard with Bryaugh.

Movie has a lovely song as soundtrack as well. Shall just stop telling everything right now. :)
 
Nesacat said:
This has got to be one of my all time favourite movies. Amazon has it on VHS but believe it or not e-Bay has it on DVD. I was given one for Christmas last year and it's great. Clear visual, great audio. Saw it for the first time when I was in grade school and bought it on VHS when I was in High School. Have not found many people who've even heard of it let alone seen it. I think I know all of three people now including you. :)
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Well appart from my cousin, who watched it with me i never knew anyone who had even heard of this film either. I will definately have to get a copy on DVD as the video(from Amazon i think) is not the best quality. It's good to know i'm not the only fan of this movie out there:)
 
it's great. one of my all time favs. there is a book, ut the book is more about the nature of dragons, than actually what happened in the toon. they show it on the cartoon network a fair bit. ior they did.
 
It's loosely based on the book, the Dragon and the George by Gordon Dickson.

Back in the eighties, when Return of the Jedi came out on VHS, my husband bought it, and although the slipcase and title stickers all say Return of the Jedi, it is actually Flight of Dragons. A few years later, I was working in a video store and assigned the task of cleaning out the backroom when I came across the Flight of Dragons case with no movie. Now I have it in one, neat little bundle. I thought I was just about the only person in the world to own this movie. It's great! My kids love it, and their friends are always completely charmed by it when they get the chance to see it with us.

Wasn't the animation done by the same guy who did the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings cartoons? I believe John Ritter voices the lead.
 
Ummm yes ... Katsuhisa Yamada did the animation for the The Hobit (1977) and The Return of the King (1980) and John Ritter is Peter Dickenson.

Wow ... didn't know so many people have seen and like this movie. It's good to know. :)

There is a book called Flight of Dragons and it's by Peter Dickinson but its almost a scientific sort of book on how dragons could have actually existed. It gives theories on how they breathed fire, flew, lived, etc, drawing on evidence from story lore and legend. The movie "The Flight Of Dragons", was based on this book. But it was only based on it in terms of how the dragons were designed. The (very) basic plot and characters were taken from Gordon R Dickson's "The Dragon And The George".

But the book "The Flight Of Dragons" is different from the movie. For one thing, Peter Dickenson views dragons as lethargic beasts with a dull intelligence. He included a chapter on dragon-slaying, which, to me, was something of the last straw.
But most of Peter Dickenson's theories- especially the one about why there are no fossils of dragons - are very well thought out. And I love his saying: "Remember. The dragons live. Inside us."
 
I remember it also, although not that well.....was The Ogre of Gormley Keep somehow involved??????
 
i relmember this movie, unleash a flight of DRAGONS!!!!

doesnt it have a three headed dragon at the end? i aont seen this since i was like four, and tried to get a copy some time back but failed utterly in the attempt.
 
it has a many headed dragon. the evil wizard grows lots of heads and peter dickson chants a tonne of scientic reason at him to make them explode. then he gets the girl and they live happily ever after :)

i know the film pretty much backwards. :) also features the nice cliche of a totally obvious woman, dresed like a boy, confusing the knight. knights are naive, apparantly :)
 
the_faery_queen said:
also features the nice cliche of a totally obvious woman, dresed like a boy, confusing the knight. knights are naive, apparantly :)
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Too many knocks on the noggin with very hard objects. Not only do you get the impact, but those tin hats reverberate!:eek:
 
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