Dungeons & Dragons (film)/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Dull Surprise: Ridley, The Empress, and Damodar seems to deliver his lines like this a lot of the time.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Damodar, who proved popular enough to appear in the sequel. Possibly because he kills Snails.
    • Xilus, leader of the Thieves Guild, most likely because Richard O'Brien makes him just so damn entertaining to watch.
    • Are we forgetting PROFION?
  • Ethnic Scrappy: Snails.
  • Fashion Victim Villain: Damador's blue lipstick.
  • Fridge Logic: The Emperess attack with a flock of Golden Dragons, a.k.a. Fire monsters. The wizards counterattack with... fireballs and Red Dragons!? So, you're attacking a creature immune to fire with fire!? WTF!?
  • Ham and Cheese: Irons just revels in Chewing the Scenery here, and is considered the only good part of the film for some.
    • So much so that That Guy With The Glasses says this very phrase when describing Irons' performance.
    • This film also contains Richard O'Brien. This is notable for one very significant reason: he is the most understated actor in the whole film. Think about that for a minute.
      • Actually Tom Baker is. Poor Doctor.
      • Thora Birch also clearly gives no fucks in her performance as the Empress.
  • Narm: Ridley's Big No when Snails is killed, complete with dropping to his knees and a Skyward Scream.
    • Everything Damodar says.
    • That noise that the dwarf makes after his helmet is shot off. It's a high-pitched "Nyur! Nyur!" sort of sound. Some think it was a mating call.
  • Role Association: Hi, Riff Raff! Nice to see you make a cameo in this film.
  • Running the Asylum: Courtney Solomon's credentials consisted of being a D&D fanboy and spending ten years trying to get a D&D movie made.
  • So Bad It's Good: A lot of the movie is hilarious in its cheesiness, hamminess and dated effects (and genuinely hilarious on rare occasions), unless you're a serious D&D fan, in which case it's like being eaten feet-first by rats.