Pluskylang Great Film overall

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

VeraWade Unfortunately, the good people at Syfy seem to have thought it does.While "Pegasus Vs. Chimera" is not the absolute worst of the Syfy library, it still fares extremely bad on pretty much all areas. The writing is bad and the acting is either over the top or emotionless (mostly the latter), so be prepared for a lot of cringe-worthy lines. The story is nothing special; there's a couple of bad guys who basically want to conquer the world. It's up to a blacksmith and a princess to stop them, and eventually there are a Chimera and a Pegasus fighting on both respective sides.At a lot of points a badly executed shaky cam technique is used. On top of that there are numerous, and may I add pointless, establishing shots that might give you motion sickness. Also, be prepared for a lot, and I mean a lot of unnecessary and abrupt cuts. Some of the scenery looks okay, however the bad guys do seem to like to visit the same beach a couple of times, which is also the same beach where the father of the hero was murdered years before. What a coincidence, huh?As might be expected of a Syfy movie, it contains a lot of bad CGI and special effects. The Chimera isn't well animated itself, but any scene in which someone fights him looks simply horrendous - that is as far as you can even see any of it, since there are so many cuts, even during the most important scenes. The way they tried to make an ordinary horse look like a Pegasus is possibly the worst aspect of this movie. As the title of this review says, footage of the horse is fast-forwarded to make it look like it has "extraordinary powers".One thing I did like about this movie, is that in one scene near the end of the movie, everyone is involved in a battle, while the horse quietly stands behind them, grazing. Hilarious.

Aki Savolainen Before this current digital age came to being the only way to film something was to actually spend some film on it. You know, the light- sensitive tape, exposed image by image, and then edited and cut with scissors and a carpet knife. If you wanted special effects, now taken for granted, it was arduous work. And all this cost money. The more film you spent shooting, the less you had budget left to work with.Now with everything being digital, shooting film doesn't have to cost anything after the initial purchase of the equipment. For some (I'm looking at you, SyFy) it seems to work as an excuse to churn out intolerable amounts of garbage. What used to be a waste of perfectly fine film and thus money nowadays amounts only to wasted hard drive space.This assumption could not be further from the truth. A film like Pegasus Vs. Chimera proves that there still are cases were no excuses are good enough. Here's a spiteful little take on the movie in question:Knowing the location of the rec-button and having the skill to apply enough pressure on it to make the camera record does NOT mean any commendable camera work is taking place. - Reading through the lines given to you while wearing a costume given to you does NOT mean any acting is taking place. - Making the background music louder and shaking the camera does NOT equal exciting action, no matter what they say in the Michael Bay Film SchoolI had a few more points written down but I think all of us get the picture by now.Sincerely, if you (SyFy) want to make a movie, understand this: no cgi, no fantastic setting, nor sword-fighting make compelling film. What this purest cross-breed of art and entertainment business needs to tick either one of its' parents' boxes is sincerity, some spirit, some feel, enthusiasm and a hint of vision. I may have forgotten to list some here, but what all of them have in common is that none of them can be bought, so budget restraints are no excuse.Pegasus Vs. Chimera has nothing going for it. I wish I could have some of that healing Pegasus blood, so I could wash all those responsible for this flick clean.Yet, I forgive you. It was I who chose to waste my time watching this steaming pile of you-know-what. Now I write this as a warning to any potential viewer before I willingly push this film out of my brain and forget.

wes-connors A couple of men in togas encounter a dinosaur-type beast. The incident ends tragically for the beast and one of the men. Many years later, we are apparently in medieval times, give or take a few thousand years. Our hero turns out to be the younger man, who survived the opening attacks. He is blacksmith Sebastian Roche (as Belleros). The villains are magical Carlo Rota (as King Orthos) and henchman James Kidnie (as General Actae). They both have shaved heads. One drinks the other's blood and throws-up "Chimera"... On the less dark side, Mr. Roche gets royal help from pretty Nazneen Contractor (as Princess Philony) and motherly Mimi Kuzyk (as Queen Caria). They are assisted by the occasionally winged horse "Pegasus". The monster "Chimera" is patterned after a feline. It looks most realistic when jumping a few feet up, in one scene. You'll have to wait until the last moment of this "Syfy" TV movie to see "Pegasus" in all his glory. It's too bad "Mr. Ed" was no longer available to play with the role. There is a molecule of wit contributed by director John Bradshaw and Mr. Rota, but there's no denying "Pegasus vs. Chimera" is a wasted effort. The shaky camera is not a special effect.** Pegasus vs. Chimera (9/15/12) John Bradshaw ~ Sebastian Roche, Nazneen Contractor, Carlo Rota, Mimi Kuzyk

asphalthurtsmyface This movie was perfect! 2 minutes after putting in the DVD me and my date were deep into a make out session. It's the perfect reason play tonsil hockey for an extended period of time. If you need to come up for air, watch the last 15 minutes, it's really compelling. A horse with wings! Also a fun game to play is to put the movie on mute and add your own dialogue! This movie can't be taken seriously. It moves very slowly and will bore you to tears. Make sure you have a partner present who is ready to lock lips because that's the only thing to make this movie enjoyable. Pour some wine and get ready for some hot action, not on the screen but in your pants.