The reviews for Dragon Hunters are glowing, but I found it to be literally one of the worst movies I have ever seen (and probably the worst animated film I've seen).The thing reviewers seem to go on about the most is the animation, writing and writing about how beautiful and breathtaking it is and how it gives Pixar a run for the money. I disagree so strongly! The animation of the setting is mildly interesting, but more in idea than actual visual stimulation and lacks a lot of detail. The characters are anatomically clunky and their movements don't even seem natural to that clunky design - they just flat out don't work for me. All in all, I would say that visually this movie looks more like a draft...it lacks so much that it seems entirely unfinished.The voice acting is mediocre at best and utterly fails to emote, but that isn't even my biggest beef with it! The voices themselves are so grating and obnoxious that they go beyond being caricatures, as animated characters are expected to be, and simply irritate. Speaking of "character" and "emoting"......the story itself lacks any substance at all! Yes, the bare bones idea is a bit cliché, but that doesn't really matter. It's all about the meat you put on those bones, after all, and unfortunately this meat is lean, stringy, and crude. There is no real...anything here. No true journey. No character development. It's an as of yet unformed idea that tries to parade as fully formed, and I hate it for that.Honestly, I feel angry that I watched this movie. Disgusted. Writing this review civilly took a lot of self-control. If I could have given Dragon Hunters no stars I sure would have (and that's still more than it deserves).

"Dragon Hunters" is without a doubt one of the best animation movies that I have ever come across. It is right up there with "How to Train Your Dragon".The story told in "Dragon Hunters" is a classic tale of good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, and the unlikeliest of heroes emerging to save the day. And we, the watchers, are invited along for a ride of a lifetime.From the very beginning, you are in for some visual treats. There are so many fine details and amazing work made here. From the floating chunks of rock and such, having a very chaotic limbo-like feeling to it, to the details on the characters and creatures. There is really a very unique style going on in the movie, and it works out so well.The characters in "Dragon Hunters" are well thought up, though they are taken right out of the classical "how to make a fairytale" workbook. And the voice acting behind the characters supports and carries these animated characters so well.I was genuinely surprised by the movie and it blew me away, instantly becoming one of my favorite animated movies of all time.If you like adventure, animated movies and heroics, then "Dragon Hunter" is definitely a movie that you have to check out. It is so cool, that this review hardly does it any justice.

First time I saw this movie I was fascinated and have since watched it again and again. The storyline is one someone should have done years ago. The characters are only enough to tell the story. The time is instead spent developing the characters and setting up for the huge finish.The visually stunning world floating around is fascinating all by itself. The unique graphics to make a gravity defying universe must have been a huge effort. This is a different world than any you've seen. Who ever wrote the screen play really believed in the story to fill it out like they did, down to the little puffing plants. The people are not the best graphics but are a very characterized style which manage to be amusing particularly in motion.Fold in good characters, well developed by the end of the movie (the dog is awesome funny) new monsters and by the end you're totally rooting for the underdogs in the face of an unbelievable foe.Love it. Will always be one of my favorites and probably the biggest surprise hit to me of animation ever.

The almost entirely 3D animation is some of the most imaginative, detailed, and careful that I've ever seen (I'm writing in 2010). The level of entirely believable detail is like taking the most complicated frame from something like Wall-E or Ponyo by the Sea and equaling or besting it in scene after scene throughout the film. The story is a modified "fantasy action adventure", which may seem excellent, or just adequate, depending on your predilection about that genre. (If you have your doubts about the genre, you'll find the usual suspects here: plot loose ends, exaggerated characters, not entirely believable motivations, an awful lot of coincidences, and so forth. If though you just let go with the flow, it will be a rollicking good time.) The characters are pretty much straight ahead (a lot of sly character humor has made its way into the TV series though).It's a bit confusing to find the right thing, as there are two movies, a TV series, and a comic book series all with pretty much the same name (maybe differing only in an 's' or a '!', and even that not consistently). One of the movies is a Korean live action movie, and the comic book series is also Korean. The other movie is an animation and had mostly French involvement, and the TV series is a spin off of the movie (or is the movie a spin off of the TV series?) with the same characters, locale, and back-stories. While the TV series is one of the best animated serials I've seen, with unusual characters that are funny in a very modern understated ironic way, and animation much much more careful and detailed than you'd expect from a TV series; it's this animated movie (original title "Chasseurs de Dragons" by the French company "Futurikon") that's the most outstanding of the bunch.If this movie is what you're looking for and you accidentally get the TV series instead, it's worth watching anyway. But afterward try again to get this movie. If on the other hand you accidentally get the live action movie, your expectations will be disappointed. I believe the voice actors in this movie and in the TV series are different (both good, just "different"). And of course the appearance of the characters is more complex and subtle in this movie. The Region 1 DVD doesn't have either any subtitles or any choice of spoken language; spoken English is all you get without obtaining a different DVD. This will generally be just fine, as the English sound track has no "accent" at all and is so good you won't puzzle over anything.