Now for something fun from the vault, 1982 film Flight of Dragons.
In a world of magic and Dragons flying to Don McLean records, four color coded wizards come together to discuss creating a new realm where magic can stay separate from a world increasingly rejecting it.
The red wizard Ommadon voiced by Darth Vader says it isn't necessary for he will rule the lands himself suggesting from his visions that the world will go to war regardless and he's the right man to lead that carnage; The other wizards decide to stop him but each has their own excuse. Yellow wizard Lo Tae Zhao is a pacifist so he only leaves a flute, Blue wizard Solarius wants to beat something up but ends up just providing a shield, so Green wizard Carolinus picks some heroes to go on an epic quest along with Green Wizard's Dragon Gorbash.
Here's where the names get weird.
The fantasy party consist of the Dragon Gorbash. (Okay that's a good name for a dragon)
A knight called Sir Orrin Neville-Smythe. (Someone with that name served me tea once)
A man from the future called Peter Dickinson. (Because Green Wizard's secret weapon is a scientist from the future who funds his research by pawning Dungeons & Dragons games)
later joined by Aragh the Wolf, Giles the Elf & Danielle the Archer. (The naming is either bad or strangely normal)
Oh there's a Princess as well called Milisande (I think you feed that to parrots)
Things go wrong fairly early when Peter gets stuck in Gorbash's body through a poorly timed spell, from then on he spends most of his time dismissing dangers as science logic including a frustrated quote from another dragon teaching him how dragons get their fire "Shut up and eat your limestone!".
The fantasy journey is your standard affair until an army of dragons show up only for a convenient plot item namely the flute to put them all to sleep, accept for one dragon who kills everyone only for himself to get killed by the knight and then he dies as well. So before the climax everyone dies! Or so you think as Peter rises from the dragon he was trapped in and defeats the red wizard by and I kid you not by shouting science terms at him. Not joking watch the video.
With the Red Wizard defeated everyone is back to life, Peter is back in his world having pawned off all the special items he picked up in the fantasy realm and is also joined by the princess while the magic realm gets a new home as promised, happy endings all round.
For an 80s animated movie it looks both dated and nice looking, Cartoon Network actually managed to broadcast it despite the fact that people die in quite nasty ways, it's interesting to note that the film was co-created by Japan so that does explain quite a lot.
It's a cheesy film with an ending that deserves to be an internet joke.
Also during a showcase at a convention they played this film and I was proud of the fact that I was the only one that saw it when the presenter asked if anyone had seen it.
