Eragon: Movie, DVD & Blu-ray disc Review (2007)

Tolkien lite.

This mediocre fantasy movie based on Christopher Paolini’s best-selling novel encourages comparisons to the “Lord of the Rings” series, which is part of its problem. Too much of it is derivative. The dialogue is SPAM.

That said, the film is technically accomplished, with excellence achieved in the digital creation of the dragon Saphira (voice of Rachel Weisz)--she's a beauty and her flights with Eragon (Edward Speleers), the boy who found her, are the movie at its best.

With John Malkovich, Robert Carlyle, Edward Speleers and Jeremy Irons. Directed, rather fittingly, by Stefan Fangmeir.

Rated PG. Grade: C