Dragon Hunters is a 2008 French computer-animated

Computer animation

Computer animation is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics. The more general term computer generated imagery encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while computer animation only refers to moving images....

 fantasy film

Fantasy film

Fantasy films are films with fantastic themes, usually involving magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds. The genre is considered to be distinct from science fiction film and horror film, although the genres do overlap...

, directed by creator Arthur Qwak

Arthur Qwak

Arthur Qwak is a French animator and comic-book writer.-Filmography:*Orson et Olivia *Malo Korrigan...

 and Guillaume Ivernel. It stars the voices of Vincent Lindon

Vincent Lindon

Vincent Lindon is a French actor who has been active for more than 25 years.Lindon was a lover of Princess Caroline of Monaco from 1990 to 1995. He is currently separated from his wife, the French actress Sandrine Kiberlain.-Selected filmography:-External links:...

, Patrick Timsit

Patrick Timsit

Patrick Timsit is a French comedian, writer and film director. He has been nominated for 4 César Awards, three times as an actor and once as a writer...

 and Marie Drion. The film was produced by Futurikon, and co-produced by LuxAnimation

LuxAnimation

LuxAnimation is a Luxemborgian animation studio based in Doncols, Luxembourg.The company was founded in 2002 by Lilian Eche and Ariane Payen. The company works with many different companies to produce animated programs and movies. Since 2006, LuxAnimation has been owned by MoonScoop Group...

, Mac Guff Ligne and Trixter. It is based on the Dragon Hunters

Dragon Hunters

Dragon Hunters is a cartoon series created by Arthur Qwak and produced by the French company Futurikon. It follows the adventures of two hunters for hire through a medieval world of floating land masses that is terrorized by a widely varying menace of monsters known collectively as dragons. A 3-D...

 TV series.

Plot

Lord Arnold wants to find knights to destroy the World Gobbler, a powerful dragon which awakens every 20 years causing great destruction in this futuristic, medieval world of floating land masses, ever terrorized by a widely varying menace of monsters known collectively as dragons. His grandniece, Zoe, is a child passionate with the fairy tale

Fairy tale

A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories refer to fairies...

 knights, especially the Silver Knight Gothic, and upon hearing her uncle's distress, flees the castle in search of a knight.

Eventually Zoe is attacked by a pair of Jimbob dragons, and Lian-Chu, a roving dragon hunter, rescues her, leading Zoe to think that Lian-Chu is a knight. Gwizdo, Lian-Chu's only childhood friend, convinces Lian-Chu to pretend to be a knight when they hear that Zoe's uncle is rich, thus enabling them to fulfill their dream of someday owning a farm. They decide to go to the castle, whereupon the blind Lord approves Lian-Chu's bid as a knight, and briefs him on the World Gobbler (This "World Gobbler" is taken directly from the Norse mythological being Jormungandr, the World Serpent). Their mission is to stop the "World Gobbler" from destroying the planet. Lian-Chu, Gwizdo, their little pet rabbit-dog Hector, and (ever escaping and big-mouthed) Zoe, set off to the end of the world to stop him. The "World Gobbler" is a dracolich, an undead dragon or skeletal dragon.

Cast

• Lian-Chu - Vincent Lindon
  Vincent Lindon
  Vincent Lindon is a French actor who has been active for more than 25 years.Lindon was a lover of Princess Caroline of Monaco from 1990 to 1995. He is currently separated from his wife, the French actress Sandrine Kiberlain.-Selected filmography:-External links:...
  
   (French), Forest Whitaker
  Forest Whitaker
  Forest Steven Whitaker is an American actor, producer, and director. He has earned a reputation for intensive character study work for films such as Bird and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and for his recurring role as ex-LAPD Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh on the gritty, award-winning television...
  
   (English)
• Gwizdo - Patrick Timsit
  Patrick Timsit
  Patrick Timsit is a French comedian, writer and film director. He has been nominated for 4 César Awards, three times as an actor and once as a writer...
  
   (French), Rob Paulsen
  Rob Paulsen
  Robert Fredrick "Rob" Paulsen III , sometimes credited as Rob Paulson, is an American voice actor, best known as the voice behind Raphael from the 1987 cartoon of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Yakko Warner and Dr...
  
   (English)
• Zoé - Marie Drion (French), Mary Mouser (English)
• Lord Arnold - Philippe Nahon
  Philippe Nahon
  -Biography:Nahon is best known for his roles in French horror and thriller films, including I Stand Alone, Humains, Calvaire, Irréversible, The Pack and Haute Tension, and he has been featured as a nameless butcher in three films by Gaspar Noé – Carne, I Stand Alone, and Irréversible .-Filmography...
  
   (French), Nick Jameson
  Nick Jameson
  Nick Jameson is an American actor and voice actor, as well as a songwriter, composer, musician and producer. He has appeared in the television series The Critic, 24, Lost and, vocally, in Star Wars: Clone Wars as Palpatine , the radio adaption of Dark Empire, and several other productions of Star...
  
   (English)
• Gildas - Amanda Lear
  Amanda Lear
  Amanda Lear is a French singer, lyricist, composer, painter, TV presenter, actress and novelist....
  
   (French), Jess Harnell
  Jess Harnell
  Jess Q. Harnell is an American voice actor and singer, best known for voicing Wakko Warner on Animaniacs. Harnell has been the announcer for America's Funniest Home Videos since 1998.-Life and acting career:...
  
   (English)
• Hector - Jeremy Prevost (French), Dave Wittenberg
  Dave Wittenberg
  David Richard Paul "Dave" Wittenberg is a prolific South African-born American video game and anime voice actor with nearly one hundred titles to his credit. While Wittenberg was born in a hospital in South Africa, he was primarily raised in Boston...
  
   (English)
• Mamular - Jean-Marc Lentretien

Release

An English dubbed version starring the voices of Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker

Forest Steven Whitaker is an American actor, producer, and director. He has earned a reputation for intensive character study work for films such as Bird and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and for his recurring role as ex-LAPD Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh on the gritty, award-winning television...

, Rob Paulsen

Rob Paulsen

Robert Fredrick "Rob" Paulsen III , sometimes credited as Rob Paulson, is an American voice actor, best known as the voice behind Raphael from the 1987 cartoon of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Yakko Warner and Dr...

 and Mary Mouser was released in the United States on 5 April 2008.