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List Price: $34.98 | | Label: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Salesrank: 32223
Released: March 20, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
Description of Eragon (Two-Disc Special Edition):
While it owes much of its appeal and appearance to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Eragon can stand on its own as an enjoyable fantasy for younger viewers. Faithfully adapted from the bestselling novel by teenage author Christopher Paolini, this boy-and-his-dragon tale offers clean, fast-paced family entertainment without compromising the darker qualities of Paolini's novel (the first in what is known as the "Inheritance" trilogy). The plot centers on 17-year-old peasant farmboy Eragon (played by appealing newcomer Ed Speleers) who discovers a mysterious blue object that turns out to be an egg that eventually hatches to reveal Saphira, a blue-scaled dragon that quickly grows to full-size. According to prophecy, Eragon is destined to be a dragon-rider like those who once protected a benevolent kingdom, thus reviving an ancient conflict against the army of King Galbatorix (John Malkovich), a former dragon rider who turned to evil, now in alliance with a! dark-magic "Shade" sorcerer named Durza (Robert Carlyle). While the movie serves up familiar fantasy elements and offers little if anything new to fans of the genre (or anyone who's read the books of Anne McCaffrey and Ursula K. Le Guin), it's visually impressive (especially the dragon scenes, with Rachel Weisz providing the telepathic "voice" of Saphira) and full of timeless wisdom, much of it delivered by Eragon's heroic mentor Brom (Jeremy Irons), himself a former dragon rider with memories of past battles and hope for Eragon's future. Add a fair warrior-maiden named Arya (Sienna Guillory) and you've got all the ingredients for a worthwhile (if not particularly original) fantasy that points directly to a sequel. Whether that's a good or a bad thing is up to individual viewers to decide. --Jeff Shannon
Eragon Extras
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OH DEAR GOD WHY?!?!?!?! 
2009-11-27 - first i will say for one thing its not the book be cause the book is epic i will say however the only real redeeming quality is that jeremy irons was perfectly cast as brom. and who decided that the ra'zac have to die in the movie??? also let it be known that lord of the rings is lame too. go star wars!!! yeah lets see elija wood get his arm cut off and not cry about it. i digress i would not recomend this movie. although arya was hot her hair was the wrong color and her ears were not pointed seriously how hard of a change was that i wonder?
Good actors & Dragons makes it worth a look..fans of the book find it lacking... 
2009-11-06 - Entertaining fantasy movie not as well done as Lord of the
rings or dragonheart but it does have outstanding
special effects and excellent acting
by John Malkovich,Jeremy Irons and Ed Speleers..
visually beautiful...great scenes with the dragon.
A Poor young teenage boy finds a beautiful
blue stone that turns out to be a Dragon egg..(Dragons pick
the people they want to be their rider before hatching.)
Eragon curiously listens to a downtrodden man in his village telling
tales about the evil king and unknown to Eragon...
it is Brom who was a exdragon rider(his dragon died)
Brom's inner powers senses that Eragon may be the new rider that
the oppressed people are expecting to release them from
the evil clutches of the king...and is dissapointed that
the dragon picked such a young boy....
Brom follows Eragon home and feels the responsibility to
to teach him the ways of a dragon rider.
When Eragon found his uncle dead and his home burned,
Despair and Revenge are burning in his mind... and he and Brom
set out to fight with the varden (a mixture
Of beings elves.etc) to get rid of the King (played by John Malkovich)
an evil dragon rider that strayed from being a protector to be
mad from power and dark magic.
The books are extremely well written and some are dissappointed
with the first movie adaption.. the book is just a difficult act to follow...
books that are good in character development just dont translate as
well to a movie...if you are expecting it to be very close to the
book and feel let down if it doesn't... you may not like it....
The reviews go from one extreme 1 star to 4 & 5 stars ..
I gave it 4 stars not for the adaption from book to movie,
because fantasy movies make me feel like a kid for a while
I have this dvd...despite the negative reviews and enjoy watching
it.
Disappointing
2009-10-26 - I watched this in the theater with my son. The first 20 minutes of it are pleasant and wonderful.
Then the shift comes in tone, scenes are edited quickly. Episodes from the second book are introduced to fill gaps. The story becomes one great big mess. Whole other episodes go unfilmed, unexplained.
My son who had such glee for the first two reels walked out of the theater fairly angry.
He ticked off several things wrong with the picture's framework, and large gaps in the story line, missing important elements.
PS: he doesn't want to even think about owning a DVD of the feature.
it was nothing like the book
2009-10-10 - You do not get an impression of the book from the movie. The book is way better.
What Happened?
2009-09-28 - Spoilers, ahoy.
Well. This was quite the disaster. I've been reading the books for several years, and purposely didn't see the movie when it was in theaters because I kept hearing bad things about it. Curiosity got the best of me the other day, however, and I rented it.
I'm not exaggerating when I say 90% of the movie was inaccurate. It all began with a butchered pronunciation of "Alagaesia." When there's a pronunciation guide in the back of the book, there's just no excuse for that. One could argue that the writer/director/producer/whatever didn't know how to pronounce it because they didn't read the book, but let's at least give them the benefit of that particular doubt.
For my fellow book fans: Eragon was fine, but everyone else was completely out of character. Roran skips town because he's old enough to be recruited into the Empire's army, and he ain't down with forced military service. Brom wasn't wise or very helpful. Arya flirts with Eragon in every scene they have together AND her ears aren't pointy (which isn't her behavior, but still). And, the icing on the cake, Murtagh shows Eragon how to find the Varden. I know.
What could've been a slower-paced epic like Lord of the Rings ended up being a jumbled mess, zipping through scenes fast enough to give me whiplash. A 500+ page book was squeezed into an hour and 45 minutes. A lot of important plot points were removed, too, making it practically impossible to ever make a sequel without re-doing this one first. Actually, that's an idea I could get behind.
If you're after a GOOD dragon story, stick to the books.
