Dragon Hunters

Dragon Hunters (Chasseurs de dragons) is a 2008 French-German-Luxembourgish 3D computer-animated adventure action fantasy comedy-drama family film and fantastic tale telling the adventures of two dragon hunters, written by Frédéric Engel-Lenoir, directed by creator Arthur Qwak and Guillaume Ivernel with music by Klaus Badelt and produced by Philippe Delarue and Tilo Seiffert. It features the voices of Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Marie Drion in the French version and Forest Whitaker, Rob Paulsen and Mary Mouser in the English version. The film was produced by Futurikon, and co-produced by LuxAnimation, Mac Guff Ligne and Trixter. It shares the same creative universe as the Dragon Hunters TV series. It was released on March 26, 2008 in France and on March 20, 2008 in Russia and New Zealand. It was also distributed by Icon Productions and Bac Films. The film received a Cristal Award nomination for Best Feature and it earned $12,235,843 on a €12,000,000 budget. Dragon Hunters was released on DVD on April 5, 2008 in the United States by Bridge Arch Entertainment, and on November 5, 2008 in France by Warner Home Video.

Good Qualities ​

 * 1) The CGI animation is beautiful, and the main character designs are really true to the series.
 * 2) The characters are all nice and funny, like Gwizdo, Hector, Lian Chu and Zoe. The new characters, though not so explored, are also decent, like King Arnold.
 * 3) The plot of the movie is good and explains the story of the main characters before the events of the series.
 * 4) The end of the movie is very good, with Zoe abandoning her uncle to join the main characters.
 * 5) The humor and jokes in the movie are good.
 * 6) It was because of this movie that the Dragon Hunters franchise was best known.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Zaza and Jennyline, two important characters in the series, do not appear or are mentioned at any point in this film.
 * 2) Despite the title "Dragon Hunters", only four types of dragons appear in this movie, and they don't even have that much screen time, the only species that appears longer is the Red Cloud.
 * 3) Gwizdo is very unlikable and greedy in this movie, he is also very arrogant towards Zoe, even to the point of wanting to abandon her in the woods while she sleeps.