How To Train Your Dragon Movie Reviews

There have been numerous films made on battling dragons and legends surrounding them. But nothing compares to the colour and spirit of this one. Hiccup (Baruchel) is a teenager living in a Viking village right out of Asterix's Gaul surroundings. The folk constantly live under the fear of being attacked by ferocious dragons. To protect themselves, the villagers have to constantly train the young ones to master the art of killing a dragon.

The story told by How to Train Your Dragon is a fairly standard one, exploring themes that are so familiar in the universe of allages cinema that they hardly need elaborating. The hero, a young Viking named Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel), is a misfit adolescent who proves his mettle, pleases his hard-to-please father (Gerard Butler) and saves the world while learning important lessons and rattling off some wisecracks. Supporting characters

Grab your kids. Grab your popcorn. Grab your 3D glares and go fall in love with Toothless, the dangerous dragon who ends up as one of the most adorable animated creatures after the Kung Fu Panda. And yes, while you soar in the sky with him, in full 3D splendour, ducking for his tale swishes and his toothless darts, do send out some salutations for teen hero Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), who not only speaks some of the smartest lines in recent animation cinema

How to Train Your Dragon, the new 3D animated film from DreamWorks, is directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders, who earlier made Lilo & Stitch and wrote Mulan. The film follows a familiar trajectory and imparts life-lessons that you’ve seen in a dozen kiddie flicks including Kung-Fu Panda and Finding Nemo. These are all sweet, coming-of-age movies in which the misfit protagonist finds himself, gets the girl and saves the world.

One of those rare films that kids and adults will enjoy equally, How To Train Your Dragon marries gorgeous, imaginative animation with a familiar story that is nevertheless inspiring. Our hero, a nerdy young Viking boy named Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) is a disappointment to his fearless, butch father, Stoick the Vast (voiced by Gerard Butler), who's leader of his tribe. When their island is attacked by dragons, Hiccup takes down one of the beasts