Blazing Dragons: The Movie

Blazing Dragons: The Movie is a 2000 animated full-length movie is based on the popular animated tv series, created by Terry Jones and based on the graphic adventure video game of the same name was released for the original Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn in 1996 by Crystal Dynamics.

Plot
"There once was a Queen named Griddle, Heavily thighed and McMuddled, She was taken for ransom, By a suitor unhandsome, And... um... Not much rhymes with Griddle, oh well, Let's see what's going on in Camelhot, shall we?"

- The Wandering Minstrel

King Allfire calls for all of the Knights of the Square Table to assemble. Sir Galahot, Sir Hotbreath, Sir Burnevere, and Sir Blaze heed the call. Sir Loungelot, on the otherhand, stays in bed and calls for his squire Flicker to serve him breakfast. Flicker attempts to show off Princess Flame his latest invention, a foodcess processor. Though things do not go smoothly, it nevertheless makes Loungelot's breakfast.

Allfire announces to the knights heeding his call that they are to embark on a quest for the Holy Quail. Queen Griddle is not happy that Allfire and his knights are taking off on another quest, though Allfire reminds her that it merely the same quest they go on every year. When they depart, Griddle sorrowfully wishes to merely be showered with a cartload of affection. This is overheard by a human spy, disguised as a dragon, who immediately reports back to Count Geoffrey.

Count Geoffrey has his knights kidnap the village monk with the intention of making him drink a potion to do his bidding. However, the monk seems willful to do whatever the Count asks, so Geoffrey has him locked up and forces him to write a romantic poem that would woo Griddle. With Griddle entranced, it would make her easy to kidnap and hold for ransom with the asking price being nothing less than Castle Camelhot.

Meanwhile, Loungelot notes to Flicker, who is oiling the knight's socks and filing his toe nails, of a new plan to kiss up to Griddle. This involves Flicker getting a tub-full of frankincense and myrrh that was recovered from the Crusades. With Allfire and the other knights off on the annual quest for the Holy Quail, Loungelot sees this as a great opportunity to do a lot more than just win the Queen's favor.

Back with Count Geoffrey, the monk has finished writting the love poem, although he has suddenly grown older as a result. With his knights afraid of reading, Geoffrey goes over the poem himself. Though he only speaks aloud the grammatical mistakes, the other knights tearfully state that it is the most beautiful poem they have ever heard, which appears to be enough to please Count Geoffrey, the sinister Black Knight arrives at Castle Threadbare and gives him an idea, but Evil Knight #1 tells him that was in the Star Wars Movies.

King Allfire and the accompanying Knights of the Square Table search through a nearby human village in search of the Holy Quail. After Sir Hotbreath questions the creatures existance, Sir Blaze gleefully announces his capture of the holy pail. After Allfire scolds him for misunderstanding him, as well as capturing something that isn't even holy, they spot the Holy Quail and chase after it.

Count Geoffrey's knights arrive at Camelhot to deliver the love poem, which is taken by Cinder and Clinker. At the same time, Loungelot and Flicker visit the Queen with Flicker carrying a large barrel of frnkincense and myrrh. Just as she is excited by Loungelot's presence, Cinder and Clinker deliver the poem, with Geoffrey's grammatical corrections apparently being the actual poem plus a P.S. at the end for Griddle to meet the secret admirer outside the outside. Enamored at the fact that she has a secret admirer, Griddle brushes Loungelot aside and rushes off.

Once she is outside, Griddle falls into a trap and is captured by Geoffrey's knights, though she believes the admirer is merely being frisky to her delight as she is blindfolded. Flicker happens to witness the events and informs Princess Flame. They both immediately conclude that Count Geoffrey is behind the kidnapping.

The knights deliver Griddle to Count Geoffrey. With her blindfold removed, Griddle is shocked at the turn of events, but is seemingly turned on that she has been kidnapped for ransom. However, she is displeased that Geoffrey wants Camelhot in exchange for her. Believing that she is worth more than a big lump of real estate, Griddle demands that Geoffrey up the ransom demand. Geoffrey finds himself having to get his knights to grab the village monk again.

Meanwhile, Allfire and the Knights of the Square Table are having a difficult time capturing the Holy Quail. After a plan by Sir Burnevere fails, Blaze once more announces having captured the Holy Cail. After Burnevere explains that it is kind of a cabbage, Allfire is once again frustrated before the Holy Quail passes by and they resume their chase.

Back at Camelhot, Flicker informs Loungelot of Queen Griddle's capture. Loungelot tries to assemble the other knights, but Flicker reminds him that they're out while Loungelot remains. Loungelot does not wish to go, trying to counter Flicker's reminder of the knight's code to aways rescue a damsel in distress by noting another code of always weighing the odds. However, Princess Flame's presence forces Loungelot to take action.

As Allfire and the Knights of the Square Table continue their quest for the Holy Quail, Count Geoffrey's knights deliver a ransom note him in the quise of a squirrel. However, before Allfire can read the note, the Holy Quail passes by. Allfire sets the note aside and proclaims that duty calls, once more resuming their chase.

Griddle is infuriated that Allfire did not even read the ransom note and refuses to leave Count Geoffrey's castle until she is rescued even though Geoffrey is willingly letting her go. Seeing very little options, Geoffrey calls forth Merle The Wizard to conjure a wicked demise for Griddle.

Flicker, Flame, and Loungelot arrive at Count Geoffrey's castle to hear Griddle seemingly being tortured. However, it appears that Merle is merely plucking at her chin hair, the sound of which driving Griddle crazy. Griddles goads the wizard into doing her worst, which Merle oblidges by transporting everyone out of the castle. Flicker, Flame, and Loungelot arrive too late and are informed by a prisoner that Griddle has been taken to Merle's Cavern of Dispair and Occult Museum where she will be fed to Yogmort The Many Fanged.

The Holy Quail runs into the Cavern of Despair's back door, and Allfire and his knights run in after it while Flicker, Flame, and Loungelot take the front door (with a ticket wicket as what Loungelot sees as an insurmountable obstacle" but is not insurmountable at all, as Flicker and Flame put a coin in to get through).

As Griddle is about to be fed to Yogmort, she yells at him for interrupting her soliloquy, and he runs away crying. Merle teleports away with Geoffrey and his Evil Knights the instant before Allfire and his knights arrive, and Griddle thinks they are here to rescue her. Flicker catches the Holy Quail, and Loungelot takes the credit for it.

Back at Camelhot, Allfire and the dragon knights roast the Holy Quail and eat it.

When King Allfire, Griddle, Flicker, Princess Flame, Sir Loungelot, Sir Galahot, Sir Hotbreath, Sir Burnevere, Sir Blaze, and Cinder and Clinker are looking for hidden clues, the bully Cowsius Clay was in the back of the tree. Allfire and Griddle complain to King Don, the king of Spain, who suggests a boxing match between Loungelot and Cowsius. But Flicker says that if Count Geoffrey was sent him traveling back in time in the distant future, doing a reference to Back to the Future Part II, Loungelot insist that Flicker using a plan on the clues and hidden treasure.

Count Geoffrey gets Duke Rudolph's note, which says "This means war." In a rage, Count Geoffrey battles Duke Rudolph in the fashion style of The Empire Strikes Back.

Flame arrives at the castle with the hag, who becomes the guest of honor and leaves with Pierre (whom she falls in love with) after returning Loungelot and Flame to their original forms, and make the newt design the rage in Paris, the cage folds the wooden wheels into the fully hover-converted cage and flies away in the air.

Sound Effects Used

 * Sound Ideas, BURP - LARGE BURP, HUMAN 01
 * Sound Ideas, BURP - LARGE BURP, HUMAN 02
 * Sound Ideas, RICOCHET - CARTOON RICCO 02
 * Sound Ideas, HEAD SHAKE, CARTOON - THROAT GARBLE, MEDIUM (heard once in the Nickelodeon Movies logo)
 * Sound Ideas, BITE, CARTOON - BIG CHOMP
 * Sound Ideas, RUN, CARTOON - FAST RUN, LONG
 * Sound Ideas, AUTO, HORN - DOPPLER CAR PASSING BY, SINGLE HORN BLAST - (Heard once in "Higher Pitch".)
 * Sound Ideas, BELL, RAILROAD - RAILROAD CROSSING SIGNAL BELL: RINGING (Higher-pitched)
 * Sound Ideas, BITE, CARTOON - BONE BITE
 * Darth Vader's Breathing Sound (Used for the evil Black Knight)
 * SKYWALKER LASER BLAST SOUND
 * SKYWALKER HYPERDRIVE FAILURE SOUND (Heard after Cowsuis Clay crashes into Count Geoffrey's Doomsday Device.)
 * SKYWALKER, CAR - VARIOUS TIRE SCREECHING
 * SKYWALKER LIGHTSABER SOUND
 * SKYWALKER BIG METAL SQUEAKING 01
 * SKYWALKER, SCI-FI GUN - X-WING FIGHTER GUN
 * SKYWALKER, SCI-FI GUN - TIE FIGHTER GUN
 * SKYWALKER, SCI FI GUN - AT-AT GUN
 * SKYWALKER, SPACECRAFT - TIE FIGHTER ROAR BY 01 (Heard once during the space battle in Camelhot)
 * SKYWALKER, SPACECRAFT - TIE FIGHTER ROAR BY 02 (Heard once during the space battle in Camelhot)
 * SKYWALKER, WHOOSH - SYNTHESIZED JET FLY BY
 * SKYWALKER, AIRPLANE - INERTIA STARTER-LIKE WHINE UP
 * SKYWALKER, METAL - AT-AT LEG ROAR

Voice Talent

 * Edward Glen as Flicker
 * Aron Tager as King Allfire
 * Suzanne Coy as Merle the Wizard
 * Steven Sutcliffe as Queen Griddle
 * John Koensgen as Count Geoffrey/Evil Knight 1
 * John Stocker as Sir Burnevere/Evil Knight 2
 * Dan Hennessey as Sir Hotbreath/Evil Knight 3
 * Richard Binsley as Sir Blaze/The Wandering Minstrel
 * Stephanie Morgenstern as Princess Flame
 * Scott Wentworth as Sir Loungelot
 * Rick Waugh as Cinder and Clinker/Sir Galahot

Selected Credits

 * Concept Created by: Terry Jones, Gavin Scott
 * Executive Producers: Terry Jones, Robert Rea, Stephane Bernasconi, Patrick Loubert, Clive A. Smith, Michael Hirsch
 * Produced by: Jocelyn Hamilton
 * Directed by: Lawrence Jacobs
 * Voice Director: Dan Hennessey
 * Animation Supervisor: Mark Petlock
 * Music Score by: Amin Bhatia
 * Theme Song by: Pure West

Trivia

 * Count Geoffrey﻿ and his Evil Knights appear in this episode and in the film.
 * Sir Loungelot's transformation into a newt is a reference to the line in Monty Python and the Holy Grail "She turned me into a newt! I got better."
 * Second Nickelodeon movie rated G, the first is The Rugrats Movie.
 * Count Geoffrey makes a reference to Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back as he battles Duke Rudolph with a lightsaber.
 * Flicker carries the sword of Camelhot, In which, the sword transforms into a lightsaber from the Star Wars films.
 * Sir Loungelot makes a reference to Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace as he carries a double-bladed lightsaber.
 * The shot of Flicker's invention "The Camelhot Flying Machine" flying by is based on an identical shot in the re-released Star Wars. Flicker wears a Rebel Alliance X-wing starfighter pilot's helmet while flying "The Camelhot Flying Machine", which comes with the front laser cannons. The battle planning session (and battle) is very reminiscent of the scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and the Battle of the Yavin. During the attack on Black Knight's space station, you see the Trench Run in the view while trying to shoot down a fighter. This is exactly the same as a small scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, during the attack on the Death Star.

Spoofs
The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Bambi (1942)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Count Geoffrey battles Duke Rudolph with lightsabers

Blondie: Live! (1982) (Video)

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

SpaceCamp (1986)

Back to the Future Part III (1990)

The Fugitive (1993)

The Lion King (1994)

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)

Quotes
Count Geoffrey: Evil Knights 1, 2, and 3.

(Evil Knights 1, 2, and 3 runs in)

Count Geoffrey: I wanted to find the village monk and then...

(Evil Knights 1, 2, and 3 pulls out the list of collect unfair Taxes in Castle Threadbare)

Count Geoffrey: Here's one of the rules in the throne at Castle Threadbare: Now all I needed some light. Some dry. A roof! And a few extra tall serfs to holding up.

(Duke Rudolph walks in)

Count Geoffrey: Huh?

(Duke Rudolph laughs evilly)

Count Geoffrey: Not since Evil Knight #4 to use my toothbrush.

(Evil Knights 1, 2, and 3 pulls out their swords)

Count Geoffrey: They something around here works.

(Duke Rudolph uses the Force to grab a lightsaber (light green).)

(LIGHTSABER SOUND)

(Duke Rudolph swings his lightsaber (light green) around.)

Count Geoffrey: Round up some Peasants to test out the catapults.

(Evil Knights 1, 2, and 3 salutes Count Geoffrey)

(Count Geoffrey puts the sword in his purple armor's pocket)

(Duke Rudolph laughs, then stops suddenly.)

Duke Rudolph: Oooh!

(Count Geoffrey pulls out a lightsaber)

Count Geoffrey: This is working better than I thought.

(Count Geoffrey activates his red lightsaber.)

(LIGHTSABER SOUND)

(Count Geoffrey clashes Duke Rudolph with lightsabers.)

Duke Rudolph: Don't mess with lots of fruitcake and the one-and-only Jedi Master.

(Count Geoffrey swings his red lightsaber around)

(Duke Rudolph jumps in the air, turning a somersault over Count Geoffrey. He lands on the ground and clashes at Count Geoffrey.)

Count Geoffrey: I'm so devious, I even confused myself.

(Count Geoffrey swings his red lightsaber around)

(Count Geoffrey clashes Duke Rudolph with his lightsaber.)

(Count Geoffrey laughs)

(Count Geoffrey cuts Duke Rudolph's hand off)

Duke Rudolph: Aaahhh!