How To Train Your Dragon

Rating: 10/10 (24 January 2011)

How to Train Your Dragon may seem like a movie geared toward a younger audience, but personally I loved it. It certainly brings out your inner child and sparks your imagine. It has a great voice-over cast including Jay Baruchel (from She's Out of My League) as Hiccup,Gerard Butler, and even Christopher Mintz-Plasse who played McLovin from Superbad.
Hiccup is a teenage kid living in a viking society. Most of the vikings are all strong and muscled up, even the women, and their main job is to fight off the dragons that steal their cattle in the night. Of course, Hiccup is the outcast of the teenage bunch. Being kind of puny and weak, he doesn't get to fight the dragons and just gets in the way. Eventually Hiccup brings down one of the most feared dragons and finds out their really just a misunderstood species. He makes the dragon his pet and then the two have to save the village.
If I had to compare it to another movie I would have to say Shrek. Hiccup is like Shrek in a certain way because at first he is nobody then helps save the day in the end. People see him differently and he finds his place in society. Both movies teach the viewer to embrace the differences in people and you really can do anything you set your mind to.