“Dark Fury” is an animated film in the “Chronicles Of Riddick” series that seeks to bridge the gap between “Pitch Black” and “The Chronicles Of Riddick”. This is a stylish animated film that sadly does not have much substance to it.

Fugitive Riddick (Vin Diesel “The Fast and the Furious”, “Babylon A.D.”) as well as Jack and Abu al-Walid are travelling through space when they get captured. They are taken aboard a ship where a mysterious villainess enjoys collecting vicious criminals. She now wants to add Riddick to her collection. Can Riddick use his skills so that he and the others can escape this dangerous place?

I get that Vin Diesel looks tough so he fits the role of Riddick but in animated form, all we get from Diesel is his mumbling voice. Jack and Abu are back and they’re both voiced by the cast from the movies too so fans won’t feel cheated as some animated films fail to get the live-action actors in to do the voice work. The evil Chillingsworth (Tress MacNeille) is a moderately interesting foe. I like the animation on the characters as it looks pretty slick when Riddick is wasting all the bad guys.

I’m sure “Dark Fury” will delight fans of the franchise by providing them with some more Riddick action and it’s certainly not a bad little animated flick but it just didn’t do all that much for me. It’s still miles better than “Pitch Black” but I didn’t get into it the way I got into “Chronicles Of Riddick” and “Riddick”. The animation style is enjoyable though. If you are a fan then go and check this one out but if you’re not already familiar with the series, definitely do no start here because you won’t know anybody is or what the heck is going on.