How to Train Your Dragon - 5 Stars

Rating: 10/10 (14 March 2012)

Dreamworks, congratulations, you have made an amazing movie. Paying more attention to story and characters rather than to the jokes that can be drawn out of them, "How to Train Your Dragon" has the soothing feel of a Pixar movie. I can't remember the last time I was sincerely engaged in the obligatory final battle in movies like these where (Spoiler) the underdog hero overcomes the much bigger adversary. (End spoiler)
"How to Train Your Dragon" takes us to the island of Berk occupied by vicious Vikings that are often visited by those unwelcome, pesky, fire- breathing Dragons. Them Dragons keep taking the livestock of the island of Berk, and the Vikings, as the violent bastards that they are, seek to wipe out the Dragons. You see, the earlier Vikings have passed down their fighting skills, and their hatred for Dragons, from one generation to the other. Killing Dragons seem to be a natural, how do I say this, talent, for the Vikings.
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