Plot: A unlucky young Viking, Hiccup, wants to be just like the other vikings and hunt dragons. He then becomes the unlikely owner of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he, and everyone else, assumed.
Review: I have to say, I wasn't expecting this movie to be good. At the very most, I thought it would be ok. I have a motto about movies, especially when you don't know what to expect going into them. I always say, "you have to go through the shit to find the gold." Basically you have to sit through countless hours of not so great, uneventful movies til you get to the classics or extremely enjoyable movies. With that story told, How to Train Your Dragon is not shit, actually far from it.
3D seems to be the "next big thing"since a lot of movies, including some blockbuster type movies, are using it. Unlike Alice In Wonderland, How to Train Your Dragon uses 3D pretty well. I realized that Alice In Wonderland didn't really have many scenes, if any at all, that used 3D effects. They're are a couple of scenes where things look like they're coming at you, and thats basically the whole point of 3D, make things a bit more life-like and real.
The story of the movie unfolds very nicely as well. It starts off with a puny son of a Viking, Hiccup, who wants to slay dragons and be just like his father and so many of the big, strong Vikings. No one believes that he has the Viking spirit in him but incidentally, Hiccup ends up catching a dragon. He tries to kill the dragon but can't and this is where the bond begins with the Dragon and himself and where some of the good parts of the movie come in.
Watching the bond between the dragon and Hiccup progess ends up being the best part of the movie. Yes, there is a lot of fun action scenes where we see Hiccup still in training to become a Viking, and a good fight scene with dragons but the bonding is really what the movie is about. After a while, the movie becomes more about the dragon, he is pretty damn cute. Hard to deny that, even for an 18 year old college student.
The supporting cast of characters is fun to watch as they do their training along with Hiccup. Its sort of the regular bunch of people, the dominant girl looking to better than everyone, the one nerdy fat guy who seems to know everything there is but can't put it all together, the twins who compete against each other to see whose better and the one show off guy who really has nothing to show off.
The moral of the story is pretty evident, it's along the lines of don't judge a book by its cover. Everyone thought the puny boy with not enough talent to be a Viking was useless and no good and he honestly ends up being the hero of the story.
Sometimes it seems like the story rushes through certain things but overall, How to Train Your Dragon is more than just a great time at the theaters, it's a must see and worth the price of admission.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
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