How do budgets for projects like this get approved, and my Dungeons & Dragons cartoon reunion sinks to the bottom of my blog? Honestly, I tried to follow, much less enjoy, this movie best I could—what choice did I have at 1:30am, especially with the Hitchhiker's Guide out, again—but even with my sensitivity for the genre, I still couldn't understand what happened at the end. The bad guy whose ambition to destroy the world we're reminded of in every other scene just gives up because he had a knife at his throat? Visual effects don't seem to be much of an issue any longer, but the anemic pacing (the franchise-central "party" doesn't set out until more than an hour in), wasted character development/interaction and lack of, well, novelty, make me miss oldies like Hawk the Slayer and even Krull all the more.