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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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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