Chasseurs de dragons
Scénario:
Frédéric LenoirMusique:
Klaus BadeltActeurs·trices:
Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Rob Paulsen, Mary Mouser, Philippe Nahon, Amanda Lear, Forest Whitaker, Nick Jameson, Marie Drion, Jérémy PrévostVOD (1)
Résumés(1)
Pour débarrasser son oncle, le Seigneur Arnold, d'un terrible dragon dont la peur le hante, la petite Zoé se met en quête de héros, des vrais, pareils à ceux des contes qu'elle passe sa vie à lire. Pas de chance, elle tombe sur Gwizdo et Lian-Chu, chasseurs de dragons de seconde zone, dont les faits d'armes consistent à trucider des monstres minables pour des paysans bas de plafond et dont la plus haute ambition est de se payer un jour une petite ferme pépère. Qu'importe, l'enfant voit en eux les héros de ses rêves et le rusé Gwizdo, alléché par la fortune du Seigneur Arnold, se garde bien de la détromper... Bien décidé à vendre la peau du dragon sans l'avoir tué, il extorque à leur client une bourse d'or à titre d'avance et... s'apprête à quitter la contrée discrètement. Mais c'est sans compter sur l'enthousiasme de Zoé qui, déterminée à suivre ses héros dans leurs aventures, décide de leur coller aux basques... Dès lors, les chasseurs de dragons n'ont plus le choix. Au grand dam de Gwizdo, il leur faut entreprendre un périlleux voyage vers le bout des terres, là où sommeille pour quelque temps encore le plus terrifiant dragon qui ait jamais vécu : le Bouffe Monde... Pour Zoé,c'est un rêve devenu réalité, pour Gwizdo, un cauchemar qui ne peut que mal finir. Mais ni l'enfant ni le petit escroc ne savent que Lian-Chu et le Bouffe Monde se sont déjà rencontrés. Et qu'ils ont un compte à régler... (BAC Films)
(plus)Critiques (3)
For a fraction of a second, I was amazed by the perfect final enemy, I smiled at a few very shy jokes, at times I longed to embark on this dreamy landscape, and I experienced every note of Badelt's soundtrack with all my senses. But even all of that together does not surpass the disappointment of how terribly tiresome the rest is. Sneaky Gwizdo deserves to die around the first corner, and Hector effortlessly becomes the most annoying animated animal I have ever seen.
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I know the Dragon Hunters TV series, although I have only just watched the movie today. It shares the same creative universe and has the same main characters. The only difference is that this Zoe is not the same as the Zoe in the TV series because she is shouty and not very likable in the movie and sometimes gives me a headache. The other characters are more or less the same; the animation is average, although I like how they portray the world it is set in (as I said about the TV series). The narrative features a classic heroic tale, and when the enemy is revealed, while quite imposing, it does not scare or terrify me. So, while it was entertaining to revisit a bunch of characters that gave me a pretty good time some ten or maybe twelve years ago, the movie is just a mediocre piece of entertainment albeit with a really good and distinctive soundtrack. 5,5/10.
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Elevate How to Train Your Dragon to the skies and write off Dragon Hunters as a cheap, unfunny copy filmed two years earlier? Oh, come on. Dragon Hunters is a full-fledged animated film for the whole family, and as far as I'm concerned, it has a much more tolerable and unsophisticated and unsentimental story, which occasionally spices up the behavior of the characters in a way that we would not expect in a "fairy tale" (I mean especially the dying and the ending with the golden coins). Moreover, the story takes place in a breathtaking world made up of flying, collapsing continents (the levitating mountains from Avatar... but before Avatar), on which the animators worked so hard that the result of their work is breathtaking. The central characters are likable, the dragons have a great "design" (fiery pigs), the action scenes do not lack imagination, Badelt's soundtrack is at least equal to Powell's from the aforementioned film... It's a pity that Dragon Hunters didn't get as much attention. The film deserves it.
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