Warcraft: 10 Reasons It's A Huge Disappointment
7. The Tone Is All Over The Place
Considering how utterly goofy Warcraft as a property is, it's stunning that Jones decided to go the almost totally earnest, self-serious route, treating the lore like it's Shakespeare and rendering it tiresome and dull as a result.
It's offputting as a viewer when something so blatantly daft is given such a joyless treatment, and yet the film's occasional divergences into humour also fall pathetically flat. One minute it's deathly serious, and the next...someone's getting turned into a sheep.
In what feels like it was mandated by a nervous studio, the script is occasionally obliged to include some cringe-worthy moments of "humour" and "comic relief", usually a quip from the mouth of protagonist Anduin.
The vast majority of these moments clash harshly with the more stern, gritty tone of almost everything else, and it doesn't help at all that they're mostly not funny at all.
Perhaps the most hardcore Warcraft fans might be able to put up with the film being so invested in its own being taken seriously, but for most others, it makes it all add up to a lot less fun.