Fairy tale

Rating: 9/10 (17 September 2012)

Right up front you should know before you watch this: It's not "How to train your Dragon". In other words it's not as much a comedy as it is a fairy tale. I think the trailer was clear on that, but quite a lot of people seem to have been expecting different. Plus jokes do not equal story! I do understand if that is something that bothers people with the movie (like a friend of mine who told me, that he liked the Dragon movie better).
Having said that, this still has comedy elements in it and you will laugh. But as with all the Pixar movies, they are concerned about the story. And while this sort of fairy tale has been told quite a few times, they still find fresh ways to tell the story. Which is quite simply amazing. The 3-D might not be that amazing, though you shouldn't take your glasses off halfway through the movie and then take it out on the movie (or the filmmakers for that matter).
The voices are really good (some real Scottish talent at work including the one and only Craig Ferguson) and I loved the animation. Pixar itself can be called "brave" for not only tackling the fairy tale this way, but going female lead on us. And again they made it work ...