How to Train Your Dragon

primeos 6/23/2021 3:58:51PM 8.4

# My favorite movie IMO it simply has it all: Action, fun, love, nice animations and CGI, an amazing soundtrack, a good story, etc.

tmdb44006625 6/23/2021 3:58:19PM 8.4

Who wouldn't want Toothless as a pet? Honestly I can see my future kids and their future kids loving this movie as much as I do. How To Train Your Dragon is just that great of a movie. It's gorgeous, funny, heartfelt, and it's got something to say. I can't praise this wonderful film enough.

CinemaSerf 5/29/2025 11:52:05AM 8.4

Who doesn’t like films about dragons? This one draws a bit from mythology, stays just the right side of sentimentality and avoids any power ballads as it tells us the tale of the young “Hiccup” who is the son of the chief (Gerard Butler) and has a reputation for messing things up when it comes to the Viking’s biggest nemesis - the marauding dragon. The young “Hiccup” is quite inventive though, and he devises a contraption that despite the scorn and derision of his friends, he reckons might by capture the ultimate in dragonry - the “Night Fury”. Suffice to say he proves just a bit more successful than he had anticipated and so now has to try and do what it says on the posters. What now ensues entertainingly mixes loads of action adventure with some comedy, tales of derring-do and even some engineering that would have made Michelangelo and Da Vinci proud. It’s almost perfectly paced as it rollicks along with a bit of slap-stick, plenty of courage and amiable characterisations as it builds to quite an exciting denouement that I felt had something of the “Moby Dick” to it. The quality of the animation is pretty high, though perhaps a little too uniform and static at times on the grand scale scenarios but nothing to spoil a solid story engagingly told that I really quite enjoyed.