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Mar 25, 2023 · Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is great — you just have to roll with it. Engaging, comical, and unapologetically dorky, Honor Among Thieves occasionally stumbles under its own...
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By Matt Donato
Updated: Mar 14, 2023 12:14 am
Posted: Mar 14, 2023 12:13 am
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves opens in theaters on March 31, 2023.
Even if you've never rolled a 20-sided die, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a fun-filled and wholly accessible fantasy adventure that leans into the spectacle and silliness of D&D campaigns. Sure, there are plenty of in-jokes and Easter eggs to delight hardcore role players, but they never come at the risk of losing newcomers. It’s a movie that’s rich with imaginative quests and colorful characters, and together they bring realms from Baldur's Gate to Icewind Dale alive – like a tamer, family-friendly version of the excellent The Legend of Vox Machina animated series.
The cast is very clearly having a blast playing familiar character types you'd select from at the start of any home D&D campaign – in this case, a heist-like quest to rescue a kidnapped daughter from the clutches of a treacherous lord. Chris Pine shines brightest as the wisecracking Edgin, a lute-strumming man with all the plans – plans which usually need a few iterations, adding more humor as he improvises on the fly. Michelle Rodriguez is her typically badass self as the axe-swinging warrior Holga, and Regé-Jean Page steals scenes as the virtuous paladin Xenk, who speaks in eye-rolling prophecies. Everyone – including Justice Smith and Sophia Lillis, respectively playing an amusing self-doubting sorcerer not-so-supreme and a straight-faced druid who doesn't trust humans – falls into rhythm as unexpected teammates with a common goal and contrasting personalities.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves may not be as epic as The Lord of the Rings or as treacherous as Game of Thrones, but there's nothing wrong with being the jokier sibling of the fantasy adventure genre. Writers and directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein display a passion for Wizards of the Coast's famous tabletop roleplaying gam...
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Mar 11, 2023 · Essentially, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is authentically fun in vein with the game because of how it embraces the complications and comedy of a great group dynamic. And props...
Mar 11, 2023 · Humour, handsome settings, high-stakes action: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves turns the board game into a big-screen treat.
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Mar 31, 2023 · It's easy enough to make a movie out of someone's home campaign, but capturing the game is a very different challenge. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves pulls off the trick in every...
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Mar 31, 2023 · Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves has this problem multiple times over. Dungeons & Dragons (the game) isn’t one story. It’s a tabletop role-playing game that players and their drunk ...
Mar 14, 2023 · Honor Among Thieves takes absolutely no risks, but it still manages to feel authentic rather than an IP cash grab. Its worst parts feel tacked on, like the MCU jokes, but it’s far more earnest than any of us were expecting, and that makes it more than worth the ride.
