Honestly, if it were not for the absolutely awful CGI, D&D: Wrath of the Dragon God would be an enjoyable bit of cheese.  It was far better than the theatrical release.  And it was better than 90% of the drek from the 80s, when cheap fantasy was in.

But good lord that CGI is awful.  You would have thought that the movie was made a decade earlier than it actually was.

 Unless it is a comedy or a horror movie, a February release date is generally a bad sign for a film.  Not good.

 The racism in the first one (swarthy Arabs buying white western women for sex) was off putting.  Even the real sex trade in places like Dubai (forget Paris) isn't this ridiculous.

This sounds like it will be worse. 

 The plot holes pile up almost too fast to count – notably when Van Patten and his thugs commit overt acts of assault, and yet no one thinks to simply call the cops on them.

This was an artifact of the era.  Short of extreme physical harm, student-on-student violence was almost never classified as assualt.  Even today, it is controversial on some circles to call it assualt.

 The advantage of the first was not that it was believable. It is that it was made in the peak of the Cold War, when nuclear war with USSR was a reoccuring fear of most of the nation.  No one thinks that way about North Korea, so it will not have anywhere near the impact.

This movie just cannot be remade. It is clearly a product of its time.

Saw it last night.  My complaint is not that it took so long to get started.  It is that Act III felt so hollow. It had the Supremacy problem that Act III is nothing more chase. And to make matters worse, it is a chase with an unknown character introduced at the last minute.  So there is no tension at all.

 This is Exhibit A for how some movies are a product of the time they were made, and simply cannot be remade.

 The wife and I went to see this at the drive in last night (always like an excuse to go to the drive in). To say this movie is full of plot holes (and continuity errors) is an insult to plot holes. It is as if they took the original movie, stripped it down to a bare skeleton, and played Mad Libs on what was left.

 In the immortal words of John Rogers:

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”

Remember that this is a book whose economics is so screwed up that she had to invent a perpetual motion machine to make the ending work out.

 @karas1:

It's Star Trek made by somebody who didn't understand or like Star Trek.

Yet it was still better than every single Next Gen movie. Including the excretable First Contact that decided that it made sense to turn a decentralized enemy with no single point of failure into a hive creature with an "I win" button.