Principally of interest to kids whose parents fearlessly brave the PG-13 rating, “Dragonheart” will also please lovers of ancient ruins and richly orchestrated Scotch-Irish airs. Peasant revolts against wicked kings open and close this excursion to medieval England, which might be called “Monty Python and the Politically Correct Flying Loch Ness Monster.” There is no love story to speak of, just some spectacular fun and games for Quaid’s hirsute Bowen and Connery’s scaly, sometimes out-of-scale Draco. The plot concocted by Patrick Read Johnson and Charles Edward Pogue for Rob Cohen’s tale of the 10th century mixes together a bit of Robin Hood with some odd-couplemale bonding between a free- lance knight played by Dennis Quaid and a huge, fire-snorting flying reptile voiced by Sean Connery. Though it brims with technical wizardry, “Dragonheart” has the brains of a salamander when it comes to storytelling. **** Excellent *** Very Good ** Good * Fair * Poor
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