The Flight of Dragons (1982)

Directed by

Katsuhisa Yamada, Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass

Genre

fantasy film, adventure film, comedy drama, sword and sorcery film

Country

United States, Japan

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

G

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 112 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An evil wizard wants to rule a magical world with dark magic. A modern man is pulled into this world to join a quest that stops him. The story asks if science and magic can live together.

whimsicalnostalgiclightheartedfantasticalgentleadventurousquaintcharming

What happens

The Flight of Dragons is a 1982 animated fantasy film produced and directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr. loosely combining the speculative natural history book of the same name (1979) by Peter Dickinson with the novel The Dragon and the George (1976) by Gordon R. Dickson. It stars the voices of John Ritter, Victor Buono (in his final role before his death), James Gregory, James Earl Jones, and Harry Morgan. The film centers upon a quest undertaken to stop an evil wizard who plans to rule the world by dark magic. A major theme within the story is the question of whether science and magic can co-exist. This is told mostly through the experience of character Peter Dickinson, drawn from the 20th century into the magical realm. Released direct to video in the United Kingdom in September 1983, it was aired as an ABC "Saturday Night Movie" on August 2, 1986, and released by Warner Brothers as a made-to-order DVD in the US on 17 November 2009 as part of the "Warner Archive Collection". The opening song is sung by Don McLean. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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