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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Salesrank: 7491
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 (Widescreen 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
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Good Fantasy movie ..... 
2009-11-06 - I am just a kid at heart...and a fan of the books..
I bought the dvd and have added it to my collection..
Well acted fantasy about a teenage boy that finds a beautiful
stone that turns out to be a Dragon egg....
The dragon Saphira picked Eragon to be her rider while she was still in
her shell..(Dragon Riders are supposed to be defenders of the
people sort of like a knight and acquire the abilty to do
great magic)Eragon meets a man in his village telling
tales about the evil king and he turns out to be Brom a famous
ex-dragon rider(HIs Dragon died)Brom feels responsible to train
Eragon as a Rider..Eragon lives with his uncle and
cousin and finds out his home has been burned and his Uncle
killed by the evil razac...Brom and Eragon set out to
join the Varden to defeat the King who(played by John Malkovich)
is a evil dragon rider and tormentor of his kingdom.
this movie is based on the first part of a series
of books and is designed to be a sequel so it doesn't
end the like the typical movie...
since no movies have been made of the
sequel books you might enjoy reading them...
Beautiful and Powerful Elves,fierce dwarfs,dragons,magic,
good escapism for a little while....
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.
Good movie, not like the book...
2009-09-25 - This is one of those instances where the book is better than the movie (Isn't that how it usually is?) In fact, the movie was a little bit disappointing. It barely followed the book, and the parts that did were almost destroyed. Also, time is a problem in the movie. No not the fact that it only lasted about an hour and 45 minutes, although I didn't like that either. It was how the movie ran. The book takes place over a period of weeks. The movie made it look like Eragon lived right next door to the Varden instead of traveling miles and miles every day. All in all, dissappointed. Only buy this if you are a real, die-hard Inheritance fan. Otherwise, just rent it and save your money.
