This first installment of the animated version was so horribly produced it shouldn't have gone direct to DVD but directly to the recycle bin. The animation is of such poor quality it makes the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon series of the 80s look like Golden Age Disney by comparison. Not only is the two dimensionally animation bad but they go the 3D route for the dragons and draconians which of course are not only badly rendered but interact horribly with their 2D opponents and environments. The voice cast includes such luminaries as Kieffer Sutherland, Michael Rosenbaum, Lucy Lawless, and Michelle Trachtenberg and pretty much all of them don't even seem to be trying. Rosenbaum voices the half-elf Tanis and just sounds like he is doing Wally West on downers, while Kieffer provides the voice of the wizard Raistlin and though he may have been trying something more than just reading the dialog (as most of the cast appeared to be doing) he really just came across as somebody who needs a lozenger.
