No, it's a Brazilian live action rendition of the characters from the American mid-1980s Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, used as a Renault car commercial woth the heroes escaping in a Renault. Apparently Brazil REALLY loved the cartoon. The site that linked me to the video indicated that the fanbase there is super passionate and considers the cartoon America's loss and Brazil's gain.
Ooooooh. Nice! I only saw... I'm not even sure if it was part of the cartoon itself, or if it was a separate movie, somewhere in the early '90's. The cartoon was just a little before me, alas.
Part of me wants to nominate this commercial for next year's Yuletide... !!!
There was a live-action movie called Dungeons and Dragons, starring Generic White Guy and Marlon Wayans (I think it was Marlon rather than Damon) as his sidekick Snails. Jeremy Irons as the bad guy and I have forgotten who the female lead was. Possibly you saw that? It wasn't related to the cartoon, but the only animated D&D movie foo I remember wasn't related to the cartoon, it was something like Dragons Of The Autumn Twilight and I have only ever seen it on Youtube in passing.
This was definitely either partially or fully animated, though voiced very seriously. That element may have been what gave me the impression of at least some live action somewhere. Then again, I was also a squirt with poorly-functioning eyeballs, so take it as you will. I distinctly remember the line, "A dragon... who does not know how to be a dragon?!" after someone was drawn into their game and shape-changed.
Hrm. Well, that definitely wasn't the official Dungeons and Dragons movie, then. That one came out in 2000, and none of the characters were from our world. (The script was bad, the acting was bad, the effects were sort of okay, and the whole thing could have been made way more bearable by a five minute final scene of the camera pulling away from the fantasy world to show that the whole thing had been a tabletop session and Marlon Wayans' player was still sulking over not only dying but nobody being willing to get a cleric to raise him.)
However, after a bit of digging I've found that there was an animated movie made in 1982 called The Flight of Dragons, based on the Gordon R. Dickson book The Dragon And The George and another book of speculative biology about the physical science stuff that would be required to make dragons work. At one point early on, the movie involved a character in the fantasy setting using a spell to reach a thousand years into the future and inadvertently yoink a science-using future guy's mind into a dragon's body, requiring one of the actual dragons to teach him how to be a dragon. They aired it on TV in 1986. Perhaps that was it?
Some while back (a year or more ago), I was midway down a YouTube rabbit hole when I stumbled across a video featuring a lot of the people who worked on that cartoon telling stories about it getting made. It was fascinating, and now I can't find it. It's out there somewhere, though, and it's good stuff. :)
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Date: 2020-01-08 05:10 am (UTC)Part of me wants to nominate this commercial for next year's Yuletide... !!!
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Date: 2020-01-09 01:57 pm (UTC)However, after a bit of digging I've found that there was an animated movie made in 1982 called The Flight of Dragons, based on the Gordon R. Dickson book The Dragon And The George and another book of speculative biology about the physical science stuff that would be required to make dragons work. At one point early on, the movie involved a character in the fantasy setting using a spell to reach a thousand years into the future and inadvertently yoink a science-using future guy's mind into a dragon's body, requiring one of the actual dragons to teach him how to be a dragon. They aired it on TV in 1986. Perhaps that was it?
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