How to Train Your Dragon

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Jagriti Sharma Time-Passer

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How to Train Your Dragon Review - Cool

Jun 23, 2010

4.0/5

The best animated movie I've ever seen come out of Dreamworks. Heartfelt with surprisingly sharp dialogue, the studio finally has something that might give Pixar a run for it's money.
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Anumeha Singh Time-Passer

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Youd want this dragon as your pet Jun 23, 2010

4.0/5

How to Train Your Dragon a thrilling action-adventure saga with exhilarating 3-D animation, a clever comedy with witty dialogue, a coming-of-age ta... read more

How to Train Your Dragon a thrilling action-adventure saga with exhilarating 3-D animation, a clever comedy with witty dialogue, a coming-of-age tale with surprising depth and a sweetly poignant tale of friendship between man and animal. Jay Baruchel provides the voice of Hiccup, son of Viking chief Stoick (Gerard Butler), who despairs of his scrawny offspring ever taking his place as supreme dragon slayer. In fact, after helping heal a wounded dragon and secretly training him as a sort of pet, Hiccup becomes, in essence, a pacifist warrior.

Adapted from a book by Cressida Cowell and co-directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBloisthe team behind the similarly winning Lilo & StitchHow To Train Your Dragon retains a dash of the modern, winking attitude thats served as the not-always-welcome trademark of DreamWorks Animation, but its emphasis falls squarely on heartfelt storytelling and sumptuous images. The latter element makes the strongest first impression. The humans have a pleasing, expressive cartooniness, and the dragons share a slightly forbidding, alien appearance, switching from dreadful beasties to overgrown puppies with subtle shifts in expression. Toothless, the wounded dragon Hiccup first befriends is specially endearing, which makes it easy for the films middle portion to become a boy-and-his-dog tale, as kid and dragon come to understand each other against one expansive vista after another. Its a great-looking filmand an impressive use of 3Dbut ultimately, the story makes it memorable. Dragon drops viewers in the middle of an impossible situation grounded in a fundamental misunderstanding, then saddles an unprepared, easily wounded kid and his scaly, big-eyed sidekick with the task of fixing it. Theres a lot at stake here, and the film never loses sight of that amid all the dragonfire and whooshing flight sequences.

Everything is smoothly integrated into a visually rich, emotionally gripping, thoroughly irresistible adventure tale.
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Raghvendra Singh Gohil Time-Passer

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Hiccups and Emotions Jul 27, 2010

3.0/5

The film is based on the book of the same name by Cressida Cowell, a British Author, who has also written seven other books in the series. The plot... read more