In D&D, Sorcerer's get their magic from their bloodline, and Charisma is their main stat (where Wizards study arcane lore and use Intelligence). So, Simon doubting himself is a serious problem, when Self Confidence is basically how they cast spells.
@@TenmaStupidity And when he wants to cast a shield spell, he accidentally casts a FIFTH level spell. He IS a lot more powerful than he gives himself credit for. :D
There's actually a reason Ed keeps handing everything to Simon - Simon carries a Bag of Holding, a magic pouch that's bigger on the inside but never gets any heavier no matter how much stuff you put in it.
As a mention: Themberchaud is an actual dragon in D&D lore - an overly fat dragon kept placid with an overwhelming and free diet of gold (and slaves) by an evil underdark civilization. The dragon felt it was easier to just accept the gifts and light the forges than to hunt food, and so became very fat. However, this has its own pitfalls, he even has a lament: "And now, I am far too large to ever leave. Even if I tore the entire place down around me, I could not claw my way to the surface from here. Instead, I remain buried in a prison of my parents' making, far beneath a sky I've never seen"
FYI, Bradley Cooper's character isn't a hobbit, he's a halfling. What's a halfling you ask? Well, it's basically a small version of a human, and they're known for loving food, the comforts of home, gardening, being good at avoiding notice, and most importantly they are legally distinct from hobbits! OK, OK, halflings are hobbits. They were even called hobbits in the earliest version of D&D, but then J.R.R. Tolkien's estate sued them for copyright infringement, so they got renamed to halflings...
If it wasn’t already clear from the reaction - I’m a big Lord of the Rings fan! So I see a little man living in a little house cooking and tending to his garden and he will always be a hobbit to me! Interesting though that they were hobbits until the Tolkien estate sued D&D, makes sense though
The reason D&D could use everything else they took from tolkien is because legal they could use the concepts, but because one of the books is actually called 'The Hobbit' that term itself was trademarked and thats why it couldn't be use that one thing.
The movie really catches the very essence of what D&D is. The characters, their conversations, how they are never out of options even though it seems grim or impossible to continue, how the stakes feels high and why everything is comedy gold. The DM (Dungeon Master) that leads such a game is responsible for the narrative flow but also describes the world and are also a referee of the rules of D&D (And keep tracks of 100 more things ... pjuh!). Every action the player takes that seems like it's a test of their skills; dices are rolled to determine the outcome if the player succeeds of fails. The unwritten rule is this: If someone succeeds massively, It is epic, if someone fails miserably, It's comedic. This movie is the result of that very essence of D&D. Cheers!
To be fair comedic fumbles rather than brutal ones entirely depends on the table, the setting and the GM. Some D&D groups prefer adventures that are in darker worlds and have a real chance of failure and death.
22:15 This is the usual progression of D&D adventures. The DM (dungeon master, the one who designs the game scenario) usually tries to make things work like The Lord of the Rings, but the players have a way of turning it into Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (Recommend your watching those movies, by the way, if you have not yet done so.) 34:45 Dragons are usually far more intelligent than humans, elves and the like, and can cast spells, to boot. That dragon wasn't just hungry; it pretty well knew what it was doing. Love your reactions. Subscribed!
Simon ruining the bridge puzzle immediately is such a meta-joke and I love it. When a DM prepares some overly complicated puzzle with a really clever-but-intricate solution hoping the players can work it out, but one of the players instantly blows it by failing the first roll and the entire thing falls apart, so the DM then needs to immediately handwave something like a portal staff so the players aren't just stuck. Xenk's face is also such a DM "Are you serious right now?" look that sells it as a sort of 'The DM is trying not to slap you silly right now' expression. My personal favourite part of the movie.
I've said this before at other reactions. You might see it coming a mile away, that Edgin has to use the tablet for Holga, but it's done so well that it really doesn't matter, because the characters are so well realised.
So Xenk Yendar is basically the DungeonMaster NPC character. A paladin they inserted to get the party back on the track of the quest and also kindof showboat a little bit how cool he is in combat. The NPCness is deliberately enforced a little more when they told the actor on the beach scene to just walk off until they yelled 'Cut'. But they didn't... Chris started ad-libbing there and I think the other guy decided on a whim to just go over the rock. Like a videogame NPC pathing poorly as the game makes it go away and despawn eventually.
Simon's name is a deeper dig I believe... Simon the Sorceror. It's a 1993 point-and-click adventure game about a boy who is transported to a magic world where he becomes... well, he becomes a wizard but the point is the name of the game :D
Simon's magic disk, it is both a Focus and a holder for Reagents. In D&D, a Focus is often required, like a wand in Harry Potter, for many spells to be useful, and spells sometimes also require use of materials (Reagents). Dungeon Masters can allow "flavoring", which is cosmetic-only changes for a character, like Simon's disk instead of a wand and bag of materials, or Doric's wrist slingshot instead of a sling.
31:14 "How convenient" Aint that just DnD in a nutshell. Oh this really shiny cool thing we found that the DM let us have? Welp, it's for a puzzle mechanic. And sometimes it's a 50-50 chance!
Mine does this but the item will be some rediculous thing we found 6 sessions back on the body of some "random npc bad guy" that somehow will correlate to a puzzle mechanic and the "random bad guy" was actually some big baddies assistant or something...
To your early comment around the lore - yes this actually does a really good job at tackling the Forgotten Realms campain setting for D&D. Towns, organizations, people, creatures, and even spells are tackled more or less accurately (with some creative license). Was really nice as a player actually because I could visualize my own group in the games and found myself wondering how my old Wizard that spent quite a lot of time fighting Thayan liches would have handled it. Perfect example of that "player perspective" they put in is the whole portal/painting plan. That is 100% the sort of clever but overcomplicated plan a D&D group would come up wuth only to be defeated by "you look through the portal and all you see is a stone floor"
That’s so interesting - we have been so interested in all things dnd since watching this movie. We’re actually hoping to take part in a campaign with some friends soon 😊
Not to mention the Hither-Thither staff itself: the DM preps a challenging puzzle for the party to solve, but the players somehow manage to fumble it up beyond all repair, so while they're still flailing about the DM quietly improvises _some_ way for them to just sidestep/bypass the puzzle entirely, just to keep the session moving at all (sometimes to a fault, if the improvised solution was some tool the party is free to exploit again and again later on).
For the overall world lore, it's based on a module (pre-built specific settings & mechanics) that D&D normally uses called "The Forgotten Realms" that tends to usually be the default. But you can do a ton of different genre's and settings with D&D's mechanics aside from the typical high fantasy like Lord of the Rings, stuff like going Sci-Fi or even if you can homebrew (home make) it, based on other existing settings. For the rope scene: Sometimes moments in games can be like that, you try your best to get past it but sometimes the dice rolls just DON'T like you. A well known meme (mostly via Critical Role) is dealing with stubborn doors that. JUST. WON'T. UNLOCK. Simon's reintro with the bit about Fresh Cut Grass: Most of us D&D fans see that as a reference to Critical Role, where one of the player's most recent character is an automaton named "Fresh Cut Grass." Simon's side belt wheel item: That is an item called a "Component Pouch" which meant to be an item that holds different spell components, because you need certain materials to cast some spells depending on the strength (level) or effectiveness. Normally in D&D you need stuff like Gold or Diamonds, or even some stranger components like animal waste. Doric: Now it can be sometimes hard to tell but she's what's called a Tiefling, which is basically a devil-like person, not an elf but they DO exist (as noted by Simon being half-elf). In the 5th edition handbook, they're noted skin color is "Same as humans, plus shades of red," but most of the time people have tended to go with more visually striking/chromatic skin colors. Her escape: It honestly WOULD be more logical to stay as a fly the whole time and escape (not to mention it slightly exaggerates the amount she can shift because normally you only have a couple you can do in a row), but the sequence is more to help show off the range of animals a Wild Shape Druid can be to non-D&D folk, also to a degree how frantic thinking on the fly can be when things tense up and can get hectic/out of hand rapidly (also payoff for the deer joke setup, of course). Beholder: Basically a floating cycloptic head but with tendrils with more eyes at the end of the stalks. Turns you into stone with a gaze SOMEWHAT like the typical depiction of Medusa in media, but I think it's more of like God of War where it's via a beam of light and other magical abilities through each eye. Intellect devourers: Nah, they ARE a pre-established thing, but they ARE there just for that joke. lol Xenk: He's a Paladin, which is basically "someone with holy powers." The wide shot of him walking off: Fun fact, the director wanted to have a bit of fun and not cut, the scene was MEANT to end with him walking off, but they figured they'd wait to see if Xenk's actor breaks character before calling cut, but he kept walking and the whole thing of "what would Xenk do with the big rock?", they waited to see what would happen, and then we get the visual comedy gold of him stepping over the rock instead of around because that's what Xenk would do. lol Elminster: He is also a pre-established D&D character. The dragonfly: It may be the case of her spirit talking to her husband, due to likely passing to the afterlife realm if you're more aligned with nature. I forget the details but i DID see someone talk about it in comments on another video about this movie, but it's been a little while so I don't remember which. Maze: The cat-like beast is what's called a "Displacer Beast," the chest is a "Mimic," and the blue cube is a "Gelatinous Cube," and all three are counted as monsters, even then one that seems more like an object that the one with a mouth.
10:21 I was so happy when I saw Kira for the first time. I'm also part black and part white, and she has similar features to me. I don't see that very often, so it was just nice.
Holga has the Improvised Weapon ability from D&D, something which isn't uncommon for wild warriors like Barbarians. It turns practically the entire environment into a weapon, even potatoes!
THe constant hold this is reference to bag of holding. Simon basically has bigger on the inside bag so he can store almost anything. So when edgin say to him hold this he mean to store it in bag of holding.
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this in other comments but the cat-like creatures that you see in the scene where the kitten is saved, are called Tabaxi. They are also a playable race in the game now.
The Underdark in Faerun there are a few Civilizations that has cities in it such as the Illithid/Mindflayers (Psychic Humanoid Squidlike beings that feast on Brains), Drow/Dark Elves (The Evil cursed Children of Lloth), Dwagur/Under Dwarves (Much like Drow they were cursed and doomed to the Underdark) and a few more..... You can think of the Underdark as a place of various Horrors and dangers......and most of the civilizations that live there reflect that, being cold, cruel and dangerous.
Quite a bit of this was shot in Norn Iron - they re-used some GoT sets and locations like Castle Ward and exterior shots in the Mournes. Carrickfergus is in there too. Also I love how Hugh Grant is essentially playing Boris Johnson.
During the arena scene, just in case no one has posted this, there is a "cookie" for those who grew up in the 1980s. One of the groups you see in the arena is the group of characters who were in a Dungeons and Dragons cartoon series that came out in the 1980s.
To be fair to the woman on the council, she's a halfling ( + unarmed and not a warrior), she couldn't do much against even 1 full grown human, that's why all she could do was say 'Jarnathan' in an exasperated voice. And it's valid the second time, Jarnathan walked into that even tho he'd been grabbed the first time, it's less than year later he should have remembered it lol.
Loved how you guys had so much fun watching it & you caught all the details! (See, you don't need to be a D&D player to enjoy this masterpiece. Pacing, characterisation, action choreo, costumes, sets, CGI, storytelling, world-building... this film executed it ALL so confidently! & the movie had Monty Python levels of jokes.
This was such a fun movie! As a long-time D&D nerd, I had a blast with this film. Great story, good comedic bits, tight dialogue, and well rounded with lore from one of the main settings from the game. Glad you both enjoyed it too!
So I got to this channel because of the Percy Jackson reactions, but after seeing this one I made sure to subscribe! You two are hilarious and I can't wait to watch more!
Glad you guys had fun with this one - and thanks for bringing us along. Great watch. A bit on D&D. The game is fundamentally a set of rules that give structure. For some people, those rules... the mechanics... are everything. But more play styles these days take those rules and use them to give the shared story at the table a sense of structure. The story itself can be almost anything. The movie draws from the Forgotten Realms setting and all its lore and world building. That's largely the default setting so you'll see a lot of official modules (i.e. a pre-written adventure a DM can run their table through if they don't have their own prepared), novels, and video games, and of course movies in that setting. There are other official settings a well. But Forgotten Realms is hugely popular and even DMs who do their own campaign and world often draw from it.
This movie is so great. I had no idea about DnD before seeing it but through it I found Baldur's Gate 3 which has become my favorite video game ever. Highly recommend.
If you enjoyed this, you might be interested in the animated show "Legend of Vox Machina." It's a show based on an online D&D campaign run by the guys at Critical Role. It has a very similar vibe.
@@CoyzyMovieNight Out of curiosity, did you see the other comment at all, or was it just thrown into the void by youtube? It might have been too long, lol.
@@CoyzyMovieNight Well, tl;dr version is: DnD is great, definitely wrangle some of the folks you know who already play and ask them to teach you. Most players I know will arrive with a stack of books, character ideas, spare dice, and a powerpoint presentation at the slightest hint someone new wants to learn :p
Wonderfull reaction earned a new sub! For people who never have played DnD you have a good understanding of how it works. Also love the pudgey dragon part that is something I wanna try and spring on the DnD group I DM for.
@@CoyzyMovieNight I have been playing with the same group of friends for the last six years and I can’t understate how much it means to me it is my weekly safe space where all the toil and trouble of the real world goes away for a few hours we just play and laugh it is amazing.
While there are only a few discrete easter eggs referencing the rules of the game, it still really feels like a goofy D&D campaign you could have been playing around the table, with all the half-assed plans, and the absurd situations that arrive because of it.
"Is it an underground city? I love underground cities" Just imagine if they ended up in Menzoberranzan. Way to make ANYBODY hate underground cities lol
Yeah but Forge is a Rogue. I still maintain that Ed is a flavored Bard, which is to say that his spellbook is entirely utility and he doesn't "cast" but rather he just "does".
@@jlinkous05 well first of all, it's Edgin, not Ed. Second, if you're talking Forge, they already have 2 caster with a sorcerer and a wizard (or warlock, as I maintain), so what's to say you couldn't have 2 rogues? Or if you want to look at the later party, you still have a sorcerer and a druid, without a rogue of any type.
This is my favorite film of last year. I have loved reading novels set in this world for years and I’d love another movie or even a show now that we know that it can work on screen. ^v^
Enjoyed their reactions. You should make a reaction video where you watch Puss in boots the last wish, super awesome, amazing and funny movie! Truly worth the watch! Just do not watch spoilers before watching
We're currently working our way through the HTTYD series and would like to continue moving through the various DreamWorks series after that. Puss in boots is on that list for sure! Thanks for the recommendation
@@CoyzyMovieNight Puss in boots the last wish is truly one of the best movies ive watched in a long long time! Truly worth the watch. Just do not watch spoilers before watching. Far better than puss in boots1 and far better than any Shrek movie. You will not be disappointed
Well, yes and no...the movie broke even in theaters (not sure about streaming) so it didn't make money there, but one of the moderators at D&DBeyond said there was a big boost in users after it released, so if it made enough money there they might be willing to make another...
In D&D, Sorcerer's get their magic from their bloodline, and Charisma is their main stat (where Wizards study arcane lore and use Intelligence). So, Simon doubting himself is a serious problem, when Self Confidence is basically how they cast spells.
This makes so much sense! Thanks for explaining 😊 And it was great to see Simon gain his confidence come the end!
It's also why the Intellect Devourers skip them. They're a Paladin, Barbarian, Bard, Sorcerer, and Druid party. All use INT as a dump stat.
Thas why Simon was called So-so Sorcerer
Also Sorcerors can have the Wild Magic Background which means that there is a small percentage chance every time they cast a spell it will go nuts....
@@TenmaStupidity And when he wants to cast a shield spell, he accidentally casts a FIFTH level spell. He IS a lot more powerful than he gives himself credit for. :D
There's actually a reason Ed keeps handing everything to Simon - Simon carries a Bag of Holding, a magic pouch that's bigger on the inside but never gets any heavier no matter how much stuff you put in it.
Well, there is a 500 lb limit but yeah.
As a mention: Themberchaud is an actual dragon in D&D lore - an overly fat dragon kept placid with an overwhelming and free diet of gold (and slaves) by an evil underdark civilization. The dragon felt it was easier to just accept the gifts and light the forges than to hunt food, and so became very fat. However, this has its own pitfalls, he even has a lament:
"And now, I am far too large to ever leave. Even if I tore the entire place down around me, I could not claw my way to the surface from here. Instead, I remain buried in a prison of my parents' making, far beneath a sky I've never seen"
Ahhh, you beat me to posting that! I just love Themberchaud so much...
FYI, Bradley Cooper's character isn't a hobbit, he's a halfling. What's a halfling you ask? Well, it's basically a small version of a human, and they're known for loving food, the comforts of home, gardening, being good at avoiding notice, and most importantly they are legally distinct from hobbits! OK, OK, halflings are hobbits. They were even called hobbits in the earliest version of D&D, but then J.R.R. Tolkien's estate sued them for copyright infringement, so they got renamed to halflings...
If it wasn’t already clear from the reaction - I’m a big Lord of the Rings fan! So I see a little man living in a little house cooking and tending to his garden and he will always be a hobbit to me!
Interesting though that they were hobbits until the Tolkien estate sued D&D, makes sense though
The reason D&D could use everything else they took from tolkien is because legal they could use the concepts, but because one of the books is actually called 'The Hobbit' that term itself was trademarked and thats why it couldn't be use that one thing.
Weeeeeeell... Halflings are basically Hobbits with the serial numbers filed off. ;D
For the record, Halflings ARE Hobbits. D&D lore states that they are more closely related to humans than any other humanoid race.
@@TarossBlackburn lmao that is a fantastic way to describe it 😂
The movie really catches the very essence of what D&D is. The characters, their conversations, how they are never out of options even though it seems grim or impossible to continue, how the stakes feels high and why everything is comedy gold.
The DM (Dungeon Master) that leads such a game is responsible for the narrative flow but also describes the world and are also a referee of the rules of D&D (And keep tracks of 100 more things ... pjuh!). Every action the player takes that seems like it's a test of their skills; dices are rolled to determine the outcome if the player succeeds of fails. The unwritten rule is this: If someone succeeds massively, It is epic, if someone fails miserably, It's comedic.
This movie is the result of that very essence of D&D. Cheers!
To be fair comedic fumbles rather than brutal ones entirely depends on the table, the setting and the GM. Some D&D groups prefer adventures that are in darker worlds and have a real chance of failure and death.
@@aikighost That is more than fair to point out.
It is the truth of TTRPGs in general. The game can be anything infinitely so.
One of the teams in the maze was from the original characters from the Dungeons & Dragons 1990s cartoon that played in the US
Oh what a cool cameo! Thanks for telling us!
@mikehoke3822 1990? No, 1980's.
22:15 This is the usual progression of D&D adventures. The DM (dungeon master, the one who designs the game scenario) usually tries to make things work like The Lord of the Rings, but the players have a way of turning it into Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (Recommend your watching those movies, by the way, if you have not yet done so.)
34:45 Dragons are usually far more intelligent than humans, elves and the like, and can cast spells, to boot. That dragon wasn't just hungry; it pretty well knew what it was doing.
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Simon ruining the bridge puzzle immediately is such a meta-joke and I love it. When a DM prepares some overly complicated puzzle with a really clever-but-intricate solution hoping the players can work it out, but one of the players instantly blows it by failing the first roll and the entire thing falls apart, so the DM then needs to immediately handwave something like a portal staff so the players aren't just stuck. Xenk's face is also such a DM "Are you serious right now?" look that sells it as a sort of 'The DM is trying not to slap you silly right now' expression. My personal favourite part of the movie.
I've said this before at other reactions. You might see it coming a mile away, that Edgin has to use the tablet for Holga, but it's done so well that it really doesn't matter, because the characters are so well realised.
Best reaction joke I've seen for this. "He's been walking in a straight line to exactly this point." LOL!
So Xenk Yendar is basically the DungeonMaster NPC character. A paladin they inserted to get the party back on the track of the quest and also kindof showboat a little bit how cool he is in combat. The NPCness is deliberately enforced a little more when they told the actor on the beach scene to just walk off until they yelled 'Cut'. But they didn't... Chris started ad-libbing there and I think the other guy decided on a whim to just go over the rock.
Like a videogame NPC pathing poorly as the game makes it go away and despawn eventually.
This was my favorite movie of the year. It's just fun.
Pure comedy gold… we want more
Simon's name is a deeper dig I believe...
Simon the Sorceror. It's a 1993 point-and-click adventure game about a boy who is transported to a magic world where he becomes... well, he becomes a wizard but the point is the name of the game :D
Simon's magic disk, it is both a Focus and a holder for Reagents. In D&D, a Focus is often required, like a wand in Harry Potter, for many spells to be useful, and spells sometimes also require use of materials (Reagents). Dungeon Masters can allow "flavoring", which is cosmetic-only changes for a character, like Simon's disk instead of a wand and bag of materials, or Doric's wrist slingshot instead of a sling.
31:14 "How convenient"
Aint that just DnD in a nutshell. Oh this really shiny cool thing we found that the DM let us have? Welp, it's for a puzzle mechanic. And sometimes it's a 50-50 chance!
Its for when you fuck up the puzzle mechanic lol. The DM hopes otherwise but doesn't expect much else.
Mine does this but the item will be some rediculous thing we found 6 sessions back on the body of some "random npc bad guy" that somehow will correlate to a puzzle mechanic and the "random bad guy" was actually some big baddies assistant or something...
To your early comment around the lore - yes this actually does a really good job at tackling the Forgotten Realms campain setting for D&D. Towns, organizations, people, creatures, and even spells are tackled more or less accurately (with some creative license). Was really nice as a player actually because I could visualize my own group in the games and found myself wondering how my old Wizard that spent quite a lot of time fighting Thayan liches would have handled it.
Perfect example of that "player perspective" they put in is the whole portal/painting plan. That is 100% the sort of clever but overcomplicated plan a D&D group would come up wuth only to be defeated by "you look through the portal and all you see is a stone floor"
That’s so interesting - we have been so interested in all things dnd since watching this movie. We’re actually hoping to take part in a campaign with some friends soon 😊
@@CoyzyMovieNight saw this video a bit late, but you may have fun with some of Dimension 20 campaigns. Super funny and fun to watch.
Not to mention the Hither-Thither staff itself: the DM preps a challenging puzzle for the party to solve, but the players somehow manage to fumble it up beyond all repair, so while they're still flailing about the DM quietly improvises _some_ way for them to just sidestep/bypass the puzzle entirely, just to keep the session moving at all (sometimes to a fault, if the improvised solution was some tool the party is free to exploit again and again later on).
For the overall world lore, it's based on a module (pre-built specific settings & mechanics) that D&D normally uses called "The Forgotten Realms" that tends to usually be the default. But you can do a ton of different genre's and settings with D&D's mechanics aside from the typical high fantasy like Lord of the Rings, stuff like going Sci-Fi or even if you can homebrew (home make) it, based on other existing settings.
For the rope scene: Sometimes moments in games can be like that, you try your best to get past it but sometimes the dice rolls just DON'T like you. A well known meme (mostly via Critical Role) is dealing with stubborn doors that. JUST. WON'T. UNLOCK.
Simon's reintro with the bit about Fresh Cut Grass: Most of us D&D fans see that as a reference to Critical Role, where one of the player's most recent character is an automaton named "Fresh Cut Grass."
Simon's side belt wheel item: That is an item called a "Component Pouch" which meant to be an item that holds different spell components, because you need certain materials to cast some spells depending on the strength (level) or effectiveness. Normally in D&D you need stuff like Gold or Diamonds, or even some stranger components like animal waste.
Doric: Now it can be sometimes hard to tell but she's what's called a Tiefling, which is basically a devil-like person, not an elf but they DO exist (as noted by Simon being half-elf). In the 5th edition handbook, they're noted skin color is "Same as humans, plus shades of red," but most of the time people have tended to go with more visually striking/chromatic skin colors.
Her escape: It honestly WOULD be more logical to stay as a fly the whole time and escape (not to mention it slightly exaggerates the amount she can shift because normally you only have a couple you can do in a row), but the sequence is more to help show off the range of animals a Wild Shape Druid can be to non-D&D folk, also to a degree how frantic thinking on the fly can be when things tense up and can get hectic/out of hand rapidly (also payoff for the deer joke setup, of course).
Beholder: Basically a floating cycloptic head but with tendrils with more eyes at the end of the stalks. Turns you into stone with a gaze SOMEWHAT like the typical depiction of Medusa in media, but I think it's more of like God of War where it's via a beam of light and other magical abilities through each eye.
Intellect devourers: Nah, they ARE a pre-established thing, but they ARE there just for that joke. lol
Xenk: He's a Paladin, which is basically "someone with holy powers."
The wide shot of him walking off: Fun fact, the director wanted to have a bit of fun and not cut, the scene was MEANT to end with him walking off, but they figured they'd wait to see if Xenk's actor breaks character before calling cut, but he kept walking and the whole thing of "what would Xenk do with the big rock?", they waited to see what would happen, and then we get the visual comedy gold of him stepping over the rock instead of around because that's what Xenk would do. lol
Elminster: He is also a pre-established D&D character.
The dragonfly: It may be the case of her spirit talking to her husband, due to likely passing to the afterlife realm if you're more aligned with nature. I forget the details but i DID see someone talk about it in comments on another video about this movie, but it's been a little while so I don't remember which.
Maze: The cat-like beast is what's called a "Displacer Beast," the chest is a "Mimic," and the blue cube is a "Gelatinous Cube," and all three are counted as monsters, even then one that seems more like an object that the one with a mouth.
10:21 I was so happy when I saw Kira for the first time. I'm also part black and part white, and she has similar features to me. I don't see that very often, so it was just nice.
Holga has the Improvised Weapon ability from D&D, something which isn't uncommon for wild warriors like Barbarians. It turns practically the entire environment into a weapon, even potatoes!
Loved this film, wish it got more love in cinema!
We genuinely couldn’t stop laughing. Need more hype for this movie! We want a sequel
THe constant hold this is reference to bag of holding. Simon basically has bigger on the inside bag so he can store almost anything. So when edgin say to him hold this he mean to store it in bag of holding.
Ahhhh!!! That’s brilliant 😂 thank you for explaining
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this in other comments but the cat-like creatures that you see in the scene where the kitten is saved, are called Tabaxi. They are also a playable race in the game now.
"Jaaaarnathan!!!!" Gets me every time.
The Underdark in Faerun there are a few Civilizations that has cities in it such as the Illithid/Mindflayers (Psychic Humanoid Squidlike beings that feast on Brains), Drow/Dark Elves (The Evil cursed Children of Lloth), Dwagur/Under Dwarves (Much like Drow they were cursed and doomed to the Underdark) and a few more.....
You can think of the Underdark as a place of various Horrors and dangers......and most of the civilizations that live there reflect that, being cold, cruel and dangerous.
Quite a bit of this was shot in Norn Iron - they re-used some GoT sets and locations like Castle Ward and exterior shots in the Mournes. Carrickfergus is in there too.
Also I love how Hugh Grant is essentially playing Boris Johnson.
No way!! We had no idea. That’s so cool
During the arena scene, just in case no one has posted this, there is a "cookie" for those who grew up in the 1980s. One of the groups you see in the arena is the group of characters who were in a Dungeons and Dragons cartoon series that came out in the 1980s.
Happy to see someone who loves the graveyard scene as much as I do!
To be fair to the woman on the council, she's a halfling ( + unarmed and not a warrior), she couldn't do much against even 1 full grown human, that's why all she could do was say 'Jarnathan' in an exasperated voice. And it's valid the second time, Jarnathan walked into that even tho he'd been grabbed the first time, it's less than year later he should have remembered it lol.
Loved how you guys had so much fun watching it & you caught all the details! (See, you don't need to be a D&D player to enjoy this masterpiece. Pacing, characterisation, action choreo, costumes, sets, CGI, storytelling, world-building... this film executed it ALL so confidently! & the movie had Monty Python levels of jokes.
This was such a fun movie! As a long-time D&D nerd, I had a blast with this film. Great story, good comedic bits, tight dialogue, and well rounded with lore from one of the main settings from the game. Glad you both enjoyed it too!
So I got to this channel because of the Percy Jackson reactions, but after seeing this one I made sure to subscribe! You two are hilarious and I can't wait to watch more!
Aww thanks so much! So glad you’re enjoying our reactions, loads more to come 😊
Glad you guys had fun with this one - and thanks for bringing us along. Great watch.
A bit on D&D. The game is fundamentally a set of rules that give structure. For some people, those rules... the mechanics... are everything. But more play styles these days take those rules and use them to give the shared story at the table a sense of structure. The story itself can be almost anything. The movie draws from the Forgotten Realms setting and all its lore and world building. That's largely the default setting so you'll see a lot of official modules (i.e. a pre-written adventure a DM can run their table through if they don't have their own prepared), novels, and video games, and of course movies in that setting. There are other official settings a well. But Forgotten Realms is hugely popular and even DMs who do their own campaign and world often draw from it.
Love it! It was such a fun movie and it's really peaked our interest in all things D&D - it all sounds so cool! So thanks for sharing
The treasure chest that suddenly turns into a big mouth is called a Mimic.
I some times forgot their accent, then they say "chain" 3 times in 3 seconds. Nice reaction!
Hahaha the accent gets stronger when we’re feeling passionate as well ☘️
You guys missed the after credit scene!
This movie is so great. I had no idea about DnD before seeing it but through it I found Baldur's Gate 3 which has become my favorite video game ever. Highly recommend.
Just found your channel, and loved your reaction to one of my favorite movies from 2023. Also love that you acknowledge commenters. Subbed!
Thank you for your support 💙 so glad you enjoyed
you missed the opportunity during the scene with holga's husband. he's a MINI Cooper.
That is… brilliant
He has a *SMALL* cameo. He’s on screen for a really *SHORT* time.
You missedt he end credits cameo... with the 'leftover' corpse.
If you enjoyed this, you might be interested in the animated show "Legend of Vox Machina." It's a show based on an online D&D campaign run by the guys at Critical Role. It has a very similar vibe.
I did comment yesterday but I think RUclips ate it, so a shorter version: Enjoyed this reaction, love this film. :)
Thank you very much!!! Such a brilliant film, we had so much fun
@@CoyzyMovieNight Out of curiosity, did you see the other comment at all, or was it just thrown into the void by youtube? It might have been too long, lol.
We didn’t see it no! But we appreciate your comment nevertheless ❤️
@@CoyzyMovieNight Well, tl;dr version is: DnD is great, definitely wrangle some of the folks you know who already play and ask them to teach you. Most players I know will arrive with a stack of books, character ideas, spare dice, and a powerpoint presentation at the slightest hint someone new wants to learn :p
Wonderfull reaction earned a new sub! For people who never have played DnD you have a good understanding of how it works. Also love the pudgey dragon part that is something I wanna try and spring on the DnD group I DM for.
Thank you very much for the sub ❤️ we would love to get into D&D! The pudgey dragon ended me hahaha amazing stuff
@@CoyzyMovieNight I have been playing with the same group of friends for the last six years and I can’t understate how much it means to me it is my weekly safe space where all the toil and trouble of the real world goes away for a few hours we just play and laugh it is amazing.
Great movie and reactions!💙💙
Thank you very much! We enjoyed it
While there are only a few discrete easter eggs referencing the rules of the game, it still really feels like a goofy D&D campaign you could have been playing around the table, with all the half-assed plans, and the absurd situations that arrive because of it.
"Is it an underground city? I love underground cities"
Just imagine if they ended up in Menzoberranzan. Way to make ANYBODY hate underground cities lol
I still maintain that Pine's character is a Mastermind Rogue with high charisma, NOT a bard
Yeah but Forge is a Rogue. I still maintain that Ed is a flavored Bard, which is to say that his spellbook is entirely utility and he doesn't "cast" but rather he just "does".
@@jlinkous05 well first of all, it's Edgin, not Ed. Second, if you're talking Forge, they already have 2 caster with a sorcerer and a wizard (or warlock, as I maintain), so what's to say you couldn't have 2 rogues? Or if you want to look at the later party, you still have a sorcerer and a druid, without a rogue of any type.
There was an after credits scene, that I hope you did catch, though it looked like you might have stopped when the credits began.
We did miss it on first watch but have since seen it - that poor guy, such a funny scene!😂
This is my favorite film of last year. I have loved reading novels set in this world for years and I’d love another movie or even a show now that we know that it can work on screen. ^v^
Fantastic and HUGELY underrated movie. I want to see MORE
#justiceforjarnathan
Aww poor Jarnathan had an awful time
You shouldn't stand in Xenk Yendar's way. He'd walk all over you if you stand in his very straight line 😅
If the reactor doesn't watch the after credit scene, is the undead still alive..?
We’ve seen it, this was one of the first videos we filmed 😂 we were nervous and we’re still learning! I just want someone to ask him a question
should react to Detective Pikachu :)
Niamh here, when I found out Danny hadn’t seen it, I decided I will be making him watch it someday soon! Such a good movie 😂
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21:28 How they make it work xd?
y'all are cuter then a bugs ear.
Enjoyed their reactions. You should make a reaction video where you watch Puss in boots the last wish, super awesome, amazing and funny movie! Truly worth the watch! Just do not watch spoilers before watching
We're currently working our way through the HTTYD series and would like to continue moving through the various DreamWorks series after that. Puss in boots is on that list for sure! Thanks for the recommendation
@@CoyzyMovieNight Puss in boots the last wish is truly one of the best movies ive watched in a long long time! Truly worth the watch. Just do not watch spoilers before watching. Far better than puss in boots1 and far better than any Shrek movie. You will not be disappointed
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It Was Great Movie
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Thank you!! Alice In Borderland has been recommend to me for a while! We will add it to the list x
Unfortunately no sequel, as the movie lost money.
So sad 😢 such a brilliant movie
@@CoyzyMovieNight Agreed.
Well, yes and no...the movie broke even in theaters (not sure about streaming) so it didn't make money there, but one of the moderators at D&DBeyond said there was a big boost in users after it released, so if it made enough money there they might be willing to make another...
Chris Pine recently discussed forward motion on a sequel