John Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the writer/director duo behind Date Night (2018) and Horrible Bosses (2011), lent their comedy writing chops to Dungeons & Dragons after a spate of failed attempts to adapt the fantasy roleplaying game to film.

Honor Among Thieves interweaves fantasy genre platitudes with lighthearted banter, producing something akin to Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, with the superheroes in space swapped out for knights and mages.