How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
- 8.1
- 1h 38min
- Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
- 2010-03-26 (USA)
Storyline
Long ago up North on the Island of Berk, the young Viking, Hiccup, wants to join his town's fight against the dragons that continually raid their town. However, his macho father and village leader, Stoik the Vast, will not allow his small, clumsy, but inventive son to do so. Regardless, Hiccup ventures out into battle and downs a mysterious Night Fury dragon with his invention, but can't bring himself to kill it. Instead, Hiccup and the dragon, whom he dubs Toothless, begin a friendship that would open up both their worlds as the observant boy learns that his people have misjudged the species. But even as the two each take flight in their own way, they find that they must fight the destructive ignorance plaguing their world.
Plot Keywords
dragon, viking, village, island, training, teenage hero, coming of age, explosion, sheep, axe, single parent, aurora borealis, artificial leg, amputee, twin, teenage boy, teenage girl, computer animation, fictional war, father son relationship
Short Review
Based on the book by Cressida Cowell, the movie from writer-director Dean Dubois is funny, well-drawn and imaginatively structured so that adults need have no fear about taking the kids to it.
