The English dub track is presented in 5.1. Note this is a region 0 NTSC DVD which can play back on any DVD or Blu-ray player worldwide Edit: A German release was also released a few months prior by Splendid Film with English audio. This Umbrella Entertainment DVD release from Australia is the first English friendly version of the film to be released on home video. The film was theatrically released in China on August 19th, 2016 in both 3D and 2D versions. One may suggest playing one of the video games instead. Children may have some interest but some of the action may be too much, while older audiences might not be so excited with the average storytelling that they have heard before. Compared to the Hollywood standards of Pixar or DreamWorks Animation, "Throne of Elves" does look significantly weaker. Skin textures are flat, walking movements are still, and some shots even seem to be possibly incomplete in texture grading or shading, possibly due to the budget constraints. It does feel more like grinding through a video game which should not be a surprise due to the video game source material, and as it is a video game based film make it no surprise that the 3D animation all seem like cutscenes from a game rather than a movie. It begs to have more originality and sadly that does not come to fruition, with the storytelling, or with the characterizations. But "Throne of Elves" keeps things fairly safe and stale. Many extraordinary tales have been written with these elements and many have been made into video games and cinema. Princess getting kidnapped, a magical world of humans and elves, exotic flying machines, and a battle between good and evil. have all come prior to "Throne of Elves" and have done a much better job in telling the story and setting up the world. "The Legend of Zelda", "The Lord of the Rings", "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", "Princess Mononoke", "Epic", "Maleficent", etc. What follows is sadly a very generic piece of epic adventure fantasy, taking cues from many video games and films from the past and rolled into one. Consistency is thrown out, though it is fairly easy to get into the story as the opening montage explains quickly about the relationship between humans and elves and with Fish and Liya. Although "Liya" remained from the original. "Elena" is changed to "Meyla", "Nerwin" is changed to "Mayre", etc. "Lambert" in the first film is called "Fish" in the sequel. Another major issue is that the English localization team for the sequel decided to retranslate the names of the characters. First off the "Dragon Nest" title has been dropped for the English localization of the sequel, yet the characters and the world remain. Confusion may set in for English audiences watching the first and second films. While the 2014 film was distributed by Universal Pictures outside of China in many territories including English localization, the film was not a major success around the world. "Throne of Elves" is the sequel film to the Chinese 3D animated feature "Dragon Nest: Warrior's Dawn" (2014), which was a spinoff from the South Korean developed "Dragon Nest" video game. So begins an epic quest as Fish and Liya don their weapons and team up with a roguish band of heroes in a battle between humans and beasts, good and evil and love and hatred to, once and for all, restore peace to Altera. Soon after this discovery, Melya kidnaps Princess Maywe holding her prisoner as she sets about her evil plans. A gem so powerful it allows its holder complete authority over the peaceful citizens of Altera. The prospect of a union between human and elf is quickly overshadowed by news of the Princess' bitter rival, Dark Elf Melya's (voiced by Anika Noni Rose) discovery of the dangerous and powerful Black Dragon gem. The human hero of the war, Fish (voiced by Ryan Potter), finally reunites with his true love, the beautiful Elf girl Liya (voiced by Ashley Boettcher), at the grand wedding of Elf Princess Maywe (voiced by Julie Nathanson) much to the displeasure of those closest to them. After years of war and devastation, peace returns to the mythical land of Altera.
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