How To Train Your Dragon

This movie was great! It was funny, cute, great for kids, and the animation was awesome. I saw this with my family in 3D, and I will say that seeing the movie was worth the 60 bucks we had to pay for us all to go see it (this is another subject in which I'm not too happy about with this whole new surge in 3D movies, perhaps another post). I would in fact see it again, it was that good.

The movie is basically about this tribe of Vikings whose village is constantly being attacked by dragons. The village has gotten so use to this occurring that their children are taught to fight these dragons and most of the adults continue to venture out to find and destroy the dragons' nest. In comes our main character, Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) the son of the brave, tough village leader, Stoick (voiced by Gerard Butler), who is the complete opposite of his father. He is rather weak, clumsy, and try as he might is never able to fight or capture a dragon and instead gets in the way. His one redeeming quality: he is incredibly smart.

Hiccup creates a contraption to trap a dragon, and as luck would have it, actually catches himself a bonafide dragon, not only that but one that has never been seen by anyone in the village because it is so illusive. As I'm sure you can guess, he and the dragon make friends and through the encounters with his dragon, Hiccup is able to defeat the other dragons in his fighting training. His secret friend is uncovered and his father uses him to find the nest, only to discover a more sinister problem than their run of the mill sheep-stealing dragons. Action-sequence ensues.

Oh, there's a little love story in there two, but who cares about that, right? Stoick's brother and the young viking trainer is voiced by Craig Ferguson, whose lines are hilarious! There are a few other big names as voices (America Ferrara as Astrid, the love interest, Kristin Wiig, and Jonah Hill to name a few), but they do such a good job that you can get past their famous voices and just see the characters.

This movie is great for kids and adults alike. I mean my whole family loved it, and my youngest sibling is 12 and my dad is 50. It's a good family movie. With a few more great films like this and Kung Fu Panda, DreamWorks might finally give Pixar/Disney a run for their money.