Review of There Be Dragons (2011) by Charles P — 27 Jul 2011

Enjoyable. Edifying. Scattered epiphanies of beauty and genuine feeling. Yet Joffé seems out of his depth when it comes to treating real struggles within the soul between love and strife, faith and doubt, forgiveness and vengeance.

This emerges as something like an intelligent first draft--a sketch or an outline--of a real work of art, of an alternative world containing real characters with real personalities battling their "dragons" in either the external world of human society or the internal world of feeling, imagination, and thought.

Further, the film emerges as a sketch or outline with enough material for at least three stories and, thus, three feature films. The result: "There be iguanas." Best review I've read about the film: S.

Greydanus in "National Catholic Register," and "Decent Films Guide" (below).