The Flight of Dragons DVD Review
December 3rd, 2009 by Tommy Day
Good news! The 1982 Rankin/Bass animated fantasy film The Flight of Dragons is finally available on DVD, via the Warner Archive. The movie is based on a couple books from the 70s, and stars John Ritter as a Dungeons & Dragons-type board game inventor who gets transported into the world of his game (which is really the world of his ancestors, go figure).
I had never seen this movie before, as it was just a little before my time, but it was pretty entertaining. Not in the way that Rankin & Bass intended, I’m sure, but it was entertaining nontheless. It kind of feels like a cross between Dungeons & Dragons and Monty Python at times.
It stars John Ritter, James Earl Jones, Bob McFadden, and Don Messick, and even includes a title song by non other than Mr. American Pie himself, Don McLean.
You can pick it up exclusively on the Warner Archive website today.
Further Reading
The Flight of Dragons on Wikipedia.
christopher tupa
December 3, 2009
Nice! I have never heard of this, look forward to seeing it!
Metal Misfit
December 3, 2009
I’ve always been slightly interested just because of the Rankin-Bass factor. On a related note, WA also released Yogi’s First Christmas and The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus!
Tommy
December 3, 2009
Yeah, I have Yogi’s First Christmas acting all lonely on my shelf because I haven’t been able to get in the Christmas Spirit enough to review it yet!
christopher tupa
December 3, 2009
NO WAY! Yogi’s First Christmas is finally on DVD? You just made day! I have it on VHS and watch it evry year as well as Casper’s First Christmas
Rose
December 8, 2009
It’s not exclusively at Warner Bros., Amazon has it in their on-demand burn to own program.