| | |  | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Home » » Eragon (Widescreen Edition) | | | | | | | Description: | | Edward Speleers, John Malkovich, Jeremy Irons. A young farm boy longing for adventure finds a mystical dragon egg that hatches into a winged creature which adopts young Eragon as its rider. At the age of 15, Christopher Paolini began writing this first installment of his epic Inheritance trilogy. 2006/color/102 min/PG. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Ed Speleers, Sienna Guillory, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Djimon Hounsou | | Director:
| Stefen Fangmeier | | Format:
| AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Subtitle:
| English, Spanish | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation | | Run Time:
| 104 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| March 20, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 562 reviews |
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262 of 298 found the following review helpful:
 This could have been a masterpiece.Mar 14, 2007
By S. Ulrich
"I have good taste, trust me."
Honestly, I wanted to cry as I sat there in the theater watching this movie. What a waste of ten bucks. If you have read the books, and excitedly waited out the release of the movie, you are undoubtably as disappointed as I am. The books had such scope, like a Lord of the Rings junior. There was no way to get everything important shoved into an hour and a half movie. Why not go ahead and make a 2 and a half hour epic? I'd have watched it!!
Here is what you'll miss in the movie:
-The relationship between Brom and Eragon is very underdeveloped, so much so that when Brom dies, you're like, whoopdeedoo.
-Saphira ages from a tiny dragon into just about full grown in one ridiculous moment.
-Eragon's journey with Murtagh is like, 5 seconds long. No Hadrac desert, no bonding. Again, you could care less about Murtagh in the movie.
-The Dwarven kingdom was UNBELIEVABLY disappointing. If you read the book, you probably had quite a vision workded up in your head, with the Star Rose and all. The movie pretty much annihilates all that. And the dwarves themselves are stupid-looking. You can't slap some armor on a guy with a beard and call them a dwarf.
-Arya is an ELF. Did they really go over on the budget that they couldn't even give her POINTED EARS???
-The battle between Eragon and the Shade is like nothing. I was so bored.
Over all, this movie takes a perfectly paced book and puts it into hyperdrive, taking all the wonder and fun right out of it. You'll sit down to watch this movie and all you'll be able to do is watch in horror as they slaughter it. It is a terrible shame. Had they had a larger CGI budget, blatantly copied some LOTR stuff, and had Mr. Paolini perhaps overseen the novel-to-script process, well, maybe he did, but they just shoved some more money at him and he said, "Whatever, I'm alright with you destroying my cool book. Go for it."
Now, if I were to choose one or two things from the movie that didn't totally and completely suck, I will say this:
Saphira, for the amount of CGI that was spent on her, is perfect. She was totally real. The voice of Rachel Weisz is perfect as well. Eragon, Edward Speelers, he was great too. Too bad he had to over-act in order to compensate for the crappy, crappy dialogue and lack of character development.
If they happen to make a sequel, Lord help us. The second book is even more complex and wide-scoped than the first. It will not translate well based on it's predecessor. I say they scrap the first movie, and make it all over, with a bigger budget, and the fans of the book get all editing priveledges. Then we'd have our Eragon come to life, rather than this horrible, mess of a mutilated movie!!
29 of 33 found the following review helpful:
Star Wars meets DragonheartDec 27, 2006
By G. M. Handlon
"the brewfisher"
I am the only member of my family who didn't read the books. That said, we all saw Eragon the movie together. It was noted beforehand that I alone had no expectations. The rest of this review is a spoiler, so proceed at your own risk.
I'm sorry to report that none of us enjoyed the movie. It was all about the animation. The story was recycled. The dialogue was inane. They repeated one line at least three times, and I'm told it was never in the books..."One part brave, three parts fool."
This project had the depth and imagination of Ralph Bakshi's "Lord of the Rings", meaning not much. My family (the Eragon fans) were intensely disappointed, outraged and offended. They said it was like taking a novel and condensing it to a four-frame comic strip. I wonder what the author, Christopher Paolini thought? There is mention of elves and dwarves, but you never see them...or so I thought. I was told afterward that the female lead character, Arya, was an elf. The movie never revealed that. At the end, I thought she was Minnehaha the Indian princess.
Personally, I did not hate Eragon as much as the others in my family, but I would not recommend it. I thought that as presented, this movie was a bold-faced rip-off of Star Wars; the king is a dragon-rider who turned against his brethren to gain ultimate power...there is a secret encampment of rebels, waiting for a leader to appear...that leader has no idea he is the chosen, or why...the hero's adoptive family is slain in the search for him by the evil king...the hero's mentor is slain by the evil king's more evil minion. Sound familiar? On and on it goes, a regurgitation of the same old thing. Even the dragons are reminiscent of the worms in Dragonheart and Dragonslayer, nothing innovative.
The computer graphics are very good, but that's about all you'll get in this offering. Given that, even the best of the CGs will remind you of Lord Of The Rings, but not as good.
18 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 Two Thumbs DownDec 18, 2006
By Jeff M. Williams
"JW"
Eragon- While the actors and special effects were excellent, I couldn't get over the story line. I read and liked the book. They skipped and completely left the story line in the movie so often it was hard to keep up. If I were Chris Paolini I would be furious at how they butchered my story. The dumbest part was when Saphira was first learning to fly. She took off a baby dragon and came back full grown. This book's story was destroyed in the theater. Maybe my expectations were too high as I went to see the movie looking for Lord of the Rings quality and I got a USA up all night with Joe Bob Briggs movie. Had they made this movie 3 1/2 hours long and stayed with the story line it would have rivaled Lord of the Rings. As it is we may never see Eldest in theaters.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Somebody wanna tell me what just happened here?May 25, 2007
By C. D. Glascock
Well lets begin with flaws shall we, seeing as there was nothing but flaws throughout the entirety of the film. First off, did anyone notice that when the camera was looking down on Eragon and Roran that Eragon was wearing blue jeans? Yes. Blue Jeans. Also, how about the death of Garrow? Eragon's quick change of heart went something along the lines of this: " Oh my god he's dead!"
Brom, "Just burn the old man and lets go!"
Eragon, "Okay. I don't really know you but lets go run away together!"
Ya.....exactly.....Lots of depth here. Lots.....Throughout the rest of the movie his weapons change constantly. He'll be carrying one bow and the next second it's not there and then all of a sudden he's carrying a completely different bow. His sword will disappear and reappear just as frequently. Setting all of that aside, was Arya even an elf in this movie?
I didn't see any pointy ears. Also, why did she look like she was giving birth when she was being tortured?
The Urgals looked like dum human brutes. Don't even get me started about Durzas' giant moth...thing....
Half the main and more interesting characters were left out or botched. Angela the old herbalist was some kind of large 18 year old girl w/ a nose ring and a thing for our great hero. All in all this movie was probably the most horrible peace of film I have ever seen. I lost a whole hour and a half of my life that I can never get back. If you are thinking of buying this, DON'T for the love of god.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
How Disappointing!!!Dec 27, 2006
By M. Bennett
"Dragon Tears"
I have been counting down the days to this movie. I haven't been this excited to see a movie in a long time. How sad I was when the movie was over. Not because it ended but because how much they marred it from the book. I really loved the book and I understand that the movie will cut bits from the book to squeeze it all in but what was the reasoning for making it totally different??? It left out so many important issues, people and places. I do not see how they can make a second movie when they totally screwed up the first. I gave it two stars because my kids (who didn't read the book) did enjoy the movie.
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