This is a long-in-the-making complaint. I was bitching about this to my girlfriend in the theater halfway through the movie. Eragon is just Star Wars with a dragon. No wonder Eragon is so popular, everyone loves Star Wars! I haven’t read the book so it could be completely different from the movie for all I know. Unlikely. I hadn’t seen the movie in so long I thought there was a chance I might have mislabeled it so I watched it again. Well… no I hadn‘t mislabeled it. This is the most shameless cinematic, and possibly literary, rip-off I’ve ever seen. The two movies are so similar I could write one plot summary for both of them and just swap out various nouns and pronouns where needed. Look…
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The movie opens with Princess Arya/Princess Leia smuggling a dragon egg/message or Death Star plans from the evil kingdom/Empire. She manages to hide it successfully but is captured by Ozzy Osbourne/Durza/Darth Vader and interrogated about it’s location. A simple orphan farm boy named Eragon/Luke acquires the egg/message/plans but doesn’t really know what to do with it. One day/night he returns home to find his uncle and aunt murdered by ra’zak/storm troopers who were trying to recover the egg/plans. With his surrogate parental figure(s) dead he decides to leave home forever to ultimately get revenge. He journeys with an old man named Brom/Obi-Wan who actually knows a thing or two about the dragon/message. (Yes, the egg is now a dragon.) Since he was a former Dragon Rider/Jedi Knight he begins to teach Eragon/Luke how to use a sword/lightsaber and how to master magic/the force. While on their journey, the evil kingdom/Empire draws them to their fortress/Death Star. Once there, they are able to rescue the princess but Brom/Obi-Wan ends up being killed by Durza/Vader. After escaping the fortress/Death Star they meet up with Murtagh/Han Solo who says he can take them to the hideout of the Varden/Rebel resistance movement. (O.K. so this is a chronological discrepancy with the two events occurring at opposite ends of their respective movies but it still doesn’t change the fact that it’s the same crap.) The ever-present evil kingdom/Empire tracks them to the hideout and initializes an attack to wipe out the entire resistance movement. At the climax of the battle is an aerial confrontation between Eragon/Luke with his dragon/X-wing and Durza/Vader with his dragon/Tie bomber. (Or was it a Tie fighter?) Durza/Vader is defeated and Eragon/Luke blows up the fortress/Death Star. Oh wait, no he doesn’t. Well there you go, Eragon is legally distinct from Star Wars Episode IV because Eragon didn’t blow up the evil fortress. What an original idea.
