Box office Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves grossed $93.3million in the United States and Canada, and $114.9million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $208.2 million. In the United States and Canada,
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was released alongside
A Thousand and One and
His Only Son, and was projected to $30–40 million from 3,850 theaters in its opening weekend. The film made $15.2 million on its first day, which included $5.6 million in advance screenings in the week leading up to its release, with $4.1 million coming from Thursday previews. It went on to debut to $37.2 million, topping the box office; 61% of the opening weekend audience was male and 63% was between 18 and 34 years old. The film made $13.9 million in its second weekend (a drop of 62%), finishing in third. In its third weekend, the film grossed $7.5 million, a decline of 46% from the previous weekend. Kayleena Pierce-Bohen of
Screen Rant called the film a "
box office bomb" and said that the film's disappointing profits were due to poor marketing of the film, tough competition with
The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and the fans boycotting the companies
Wizards of the Coast and
Hasbro. Outside of the US and Canada, the film grossed $33 million from 60 markets in its first weekend. In its second weekend,
Honor Among Thieves grossed $15.5 million, for a drop of 45%. The film earned another $13.8 million from 64 markets in its third weekend.
Critical response Audiences surveyed by
CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale, while those polled by
PostTrak gave it a 90% positive score, with 77% saying they would definitely recommend it. Linda Codega of
Io9 called it a "solid film"—"the comedy is a little rushed, but the jokes all land" and "the characters mostly come together as charming iterations of classic D&D classes". John Kirk at
Original Cin wrote that
Dungeons & Dragons is a "shared and collaborative storytelling" game where the players via role-playing "respond to a presented setting and antagonists and other characters by the Dungeon Master.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves manages to present all of these aspects so well that you can see the
D&D players in the audience actually miming the rolling of dice". Benjamin Lee, for
The Guardian, wrote that "the script does a solid job of making it an accessible world to those not already steeped in it although Goldstein and Daley, writing alongside Michael Gilio, are less effective with the film's many attempts at comedy. It's a shame as the cast are game and Pine and Rodriguez have a fizzy platonic chemistry but it's just never as funny as it should be despite ample set-ups". G. Allen Johnson at the
San Francisco Chronicle asserted, "
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves feels like Daley and Goldstein, who also co-wrote with Michael Gilio, asked
ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI: 'Write a Marvel movie except with
Dungeons & Dragons characters.' Seconds later, this spit out." Katie Walsh at the
Los Angeles Times opined that "Aside from its clunky title,
Dungeon[s] & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves has a relaxed, loose energy that puts the viewer at ease" and "yet there is some ineffable quality lacking—perhaps an emulsifying ingredient—that prevents all these elements (the stars, the lore, the creatures) from coming together into something truly magical. Maybe on the next roll of the 20-sided die." Glen Weldon, for
NPR, commented that "the film's plot is purely, ruthlessly episodic—it comes down to a series of fetch quests [...]. But to complain about the number of fetch quests in a D&D film would be like complaining that a movie about Scrabble features too much spelling". On the cast, Weldon highlighted that Pine's Edgin is "a character who not only rides the razor's edge between charm and smarm but who sets up housekeeping there" and Grant's Forge evokes similar smarm to Grant's character in
Paddington 2. He commented that "Rodriguez doesn't get the chance to do a lot that you haven't seen Michelle Rodriguez do before, but she remains great at it" and Page as a paladin "nails the necessary hauteur and supreme confidence while layering them with a guileless sincerity that turns his character into a weapon aimed at Pine's character's every insecurity". Holub highlighted that the cast "seem to be having fun" and "what's especially welcome about the humor in
Honor Among Thieves is that it doesn't wink or mock its material; the characters just say funny things and bounce off each other as organically as a real-life friend group". Codega stated that "there's not a poor performance out of the group". In terms of visuals, Barber highlighted that neither the architecture nor the clothing are attempting to evoke a specific "historical period" but instead "the designers simply stick in whichever castles and costumes seem cool". In contrast, Codega praised the blend of practical effects and
VFX. Kirk commended the film's CGI stating that "the magic is rich, and the effects do not disappoint". Motamayor also highlighted the unique "portrayal of magic" in the film.
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