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Mill
Creek Entertainment releases a nine episode edition of
the criminally underrated fantasy series "Dungeons &
Dragons" a series that is your typical kids show about
fish out of water transplanted in to the past with a
diverse young cast, and a cliche comic relief animal
sidekick, but what it lacks in originality it makes up
for in some rather entertaining fantastical elements
that creators Marvel Entertainment injects in to its
series providing an admirable Rankin-Bass/Ralph Bakshi
feeling to it. Anyone looking to relive the fantasies of
their youth while indulging their children will be wise
to enjoy this classic show presented in a three hour
presentation of nine particular episodes, all of which
involve our characters trying to thwart their evil enemy
and his countless minions all with the help of the
weapons granted to them by the Dungeon master some of
which can grant them an invincible shield, a cloak of
invisibility, and a magical bow and arrow.
After a
dark rollercoaster ride brings them in to the realm of
magic, six children spend most of the series looking for
a way back home, always detoured by their call to help a
local village or stop an evil entity thrown on to them
by Venger who looks to keep them in the Magical Realm
for as long as possible while hoping to infiltrate
reality. The sometimes controversial series still holds
up to this day with some masterful animation and
entertaining if simplistic plot lines that will keep
fantasy buffs happy and smiling for most of the time.
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