The Best Fantasy Adventure Of The Decade Is Now Streaming Free For Everyone

By Jonathan Klotz
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Between Stranger Things, The Adventure Zone, Dimension20, and Critical Role, fantasy role-playing is hotter than ever. Nerds aren’t being stuffed into lockers, instead, they’re selling out Madison Square Garden for live Dungeons and Dragons games. You’d think Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves would have been the biggest movie of the decade, but instead the 2023 fantasy adventure was a disappointment, financially anyways. Critically and according to fans, it’s an amazing adventure well worth your time, especially now that it’s streaming for free on Pluto TV. 

Dungeons And Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Is The Greatest Adventure Of The Decade

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves plays out like your home campaign on the big screen. Edgin the Bard (Chris Pine) and his party of thieves are betrayed by a Red Wizard and framed for a crime they didn’t commit. After breaking out of jail with his friend Holga the Barbarian (Michelle Rodriguez) by using an aarakocra in the only way that race should be used in your games, they get the band back together for one last heist. The plan is to get revenge on the wizard Sofina (Daisy Head) and Forge the Thief (Hugh Grant), rescue Edgin’s daughter, recover a lost artifact, and bring his wife back to life. Simple plan, what could go wrong?

They recruit Simon the Wizard (Justice Smith) and his ex, Doric the Druid(Sophia Lillis), who did more for Druid acceptance in playgroups around the world with her wild chase sequence than years of buffs and reworks from Wizards of the Coast ever did. Together they somehow bumble their way through a dragon’s lair, rob a stage coach, and survive an arena death game while bickering, arguing, and growing as people at the same time. The writer/director duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daly (Sweets from Bones) had ot have worked in real-life gaming experiences to make this story happen, there’s no other explanation for how perfect it is.

Bringing The Game To Life

A common occurrence playing Dungeons and Dragons is using a magic item in a strange, unintended way to solve a puzzle the Dungeon Master laid out. While breaching the dragon’s lair, that’s exactly what happens when a bridge puzzle with a hilariously convoluted explanation is cut short by an errant step, and solved with a portable dimensional hole device. The crowd-pleasing scene from the trailers of Edgin talking to corpses leads to one of the best sequences of the movie, and one of the best comedy scenes to come out of Hollywood in years. 

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves had the bad timing of coming out the same month, March 2023, that Dungeons and Dragons parent company Hasbro managed to anger the entire fanbase by trying to charge for every use of the game, from actual play podcasts to homebrew creations. The boycott destroyed the film at the box office, but now that it’s been lifted since Hasbro came to their senses and learned now to mess with the fans of Matt Mercer and Brendan Lee Mulligan, it’s recognized as the greatest version of the game to hit the big screen. 

Removed from the Hasbro boycott, there’s never a bad time to stream Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. It’s a feel-good comfort movie and it’s now free to stream on Pluto TV.