![]() Up until then, you get a rather boring set of navel-gazing, mostly based around Marek agonizing about whether she is being turned to the dark side, with a side-helping of angst from Teela. When we get that, it still shines, yet you’re well into the second half of the movie before the party is reassembled and gets going on anything resembling an actual adventure. The film seems to have forgotten that it was the characters, and the interplay between them, which was its predecessor’s strongest suit. Cutting to the chase rather faster than the script here does, they capture our hereoes, along with newcomer Hairgel the dark elf and hold Teela as a hostage, using her as leverage so her friends will retrieve the stone. Szorlok and sidekick Kishkumen are searching to reassemble the titular artefact, which was cracked to four pieces in a previous age. is warned by her mentor, Gojun Pye (Kevin Sorbo, in much the same kind of cameo are last time), that evil necromancer Szorlok is watching her, seeing the darkness which lurks within her soul. Our four adventurers from the first movie are still about, though haughty cleric Teela (Posener) now has a dead sister, which she blames Marek (Stone), the rapidly XP-gaining magic-user. The answer is likely, not quite as well, much though it goes over the same, well-worn fantasy/D&D tropes. So I thought I might as well fast-track that one, and see how it compares. The original movie sat in my “pending” pile for so long, that the sequel showed up about a week after finally reviewing it.
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