DRAGONQUEST is a typically inept Asylum movie designed to cash in on the latest dragon-themed Hollywood movies. This one has the usual youthful hero - a novice of some sort - who comes into possession of a magical amulet and must use it to battle an evil warlord who has summoned a deadly dragon. This is an ultra-cheap adventure filled with genre cliches and tropes and lots of bad CGI effects to take your mind off the tediousness of it all. The only fun comes from various old-timers from the 1980s showing their weary faces, from Jason Connery to Marc Singer (is he high?) and the hulking Brian Thompson lurking around in a robe. Cheesy stuff indeed, but not much cop either.

The plot is an adaptation of "Star Wars" (Hans and Princess Leia combined into one character),for a middle earth movie complete with bad dragons, a quirky Yoda-like instructor, and a boy who must be taught, who isn't ready. The acting is bad. The dragon, fight scenes, and blood are all CG effects, and not very good ones at that. The movie certainly has some MST, it might be funny if stoned quality to it. But for the normal sober viewer this is a big time avoid.

In the beginning our horn-dog hero is spying on a young topless girl, then later he won't get into a bath tub with a major league babe. The movie has some gem lines: "You may call me...Stranger." or "You must continue along this route until...you find shelter."

No F-bombs, no sex, was that brief teaser nudity in the beginning?

I was thrilled when I stumbled upon "Dragonquest" and saw that Marc Singer starred in a sword and sorcery fantasy movie. But my thrill was cut brutally short when I saw that it was a movie by The Asylum and that Brian Thompson was portraying the villain.

And true to the mockbuster legacy that The Asylum is known for, then "Dragonquest" is one another such countless titles spewed out by the intrepid machinery at The Asylum. "Dragonquest" is a blatant rip off of the Tolkien fantasy classic, just instead of a ring then it is a pendant.

As much as I wanted to like or enjoy this movie given my lifelong romance with fantasy and Dungeons & Dragons, then "Dragonquest" was a poor movie with very Little entertainment value.

The characters were one-dimensional and had the personalities of wet cardboard cutouts. And most laughable of all was the Maxim character; whom was a mutated hybrid between Yoda and Popeye, it was such a blemish on Marc Singer's usual performance.

As with just about every other movie spewed forth from The Asylum, then the special effects were laughable and looked like something straight out of an 1980's movie.

And the final confrontation between Arkadi (who looks awfully much like Frodo) and Kirill (the villain) was utterly anti-climatic and rushed.

If you enjoy fantasy movies, do yourself a favor and stay well clear of this one.