Dragon Hunters 捉龍特攻隊

Visually, the film creates a striking atmosphere that is a treat to watch, even under the guise of a kids' movie, though the vast worlds of Dragon Hunters, which features several powerful "boss dragons" is sometimes reminiscent of a typical platform action game.

The story's a simple one. Under the rule of "Eat, but don't get eaten!" the two heroes become infatuated with the little Zoe, whose grand-uncle Lord Arnold wants to find knights to destroy World Eater, a powerful dragon. All the resident knights have already been annihilated or gone mad.

Lian-Chu, a gentle giant who knits by hand when the fancy takes him, and his partner-in-arms Gwizdo, together with their pet creature Hector, which too proudly spews incipient fires, share a common dream: owning farmland and spending idyllic days tending to their sheep in retirement.

In order to obtain that they must be financially free -- hence their career in dragon-extermination, which doesn't exactly pay off.

That's basically it, but what makes this film a spectacle, is its animation graphics, which is solidly rich, detailed, and an eye-popping marvel to behold. "Dragon Hunters" has some wonderfully crafted set action pieces with photo-realistic moments of non-existent landscapes that eventually become a character in itself within the story.

Yet the powerful "boss dragons" remind one of the previous "Dragon Hunters" cartoon series and video game, also created by Arthur Qwak. The former was featured in the United States on Cartoon Network for a few weeks in 2006, but then vanished from the line-up; the latter is a platform action game to be released on the same subject earlier next year.

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