One of the best movie experiences I've had in years!

Rating: 10/10 (6 April 2019)

It took me a while to get to watch this movie, since I've heard and seen so much about it (that includes the TV show on CN). I only got the chance to see it recently this year and I was extremely pleasantly surprised by it.
Recently I started watching movie trailers way more rarely than I did years ago... and that made me totally blind coming into this movie. I knew almost nothing about it and that made me experience the movie and appreciating it a lot more than I would have, had I watched the trailer/s.
From the first scene this movie captured my attention and made me interested in the story since it was something about medieval times and dragons. And being a somewhat fan of Game of Thrones I was hooked on from the moment Hiccup told the story about Berk and the fight against the dragons. First of all the animation and the way this movie is created is absolutely stunning and way ahead of its time. The story got me from the first moment and there wasn't a single moment where I was "can we get over with this to move on to something more exciting?". The 98 minutes flew by me and I felt inspired, moved and most of all motivated throughout the whole movie. The soundtrack... now I gotta address this... John Powell was robbed of Oscar in 2011. I don't care what anyone else says about that... I've seen The Social Network and that soundtrack was absolutely horrible. There were at least three other soundtracks in 2010 way better than that: The King's Speech - Alexandre Desplat, Inception - Hans Zimmer, and this one. Now I understand that you shouldn't award another oscar to a composer who already won one (Hans Zimmer) but how could the academy rob John Powell of the oscar is beyond me. His score was inspiring, powerful, well suited for the time frame in the movie and motivating. There were tracks that while the movie was playing and the scene was going, it made me shed tears of joy and inspiration. Now that doesn't happen often and I can only name a couple of movies that did that to me: Interstellar, Braveheart, Avengers: Infinity War, The Dark Knight, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, ... I can honestly say that the best part of the movie was the score. The other great parts were, aside from the story which I already mentioned, the conclusion, the interactions between the characters and how everything tied together with everything.
I could go on about the animation, cinematography or voice acting but for me a movie with a captivating story, wonderful soundtrack and inspiring and motivating moments is enough to call a masterpiece. And this is for me a masterpiece. One of the best animated films I've ever seen in my life!