Movie VS Book - Movie WINS!

Rating: 9/10 (28 March 2010)

Saw the movie yesterday and loved it. I found the books at Costco and bought a couple, read the first today, expecting it to be amazing since so often books outshine their movie counterparts. But on this one I'd say skip the book, go see the movie again. The movie may sell a lot of moms like me on the books, looking for something for their kids to read. But the kids will hardly recognize the book and the movie as having much to do with each other, beyond "vikings," "dragons," and some of the characters.
Whoever converted the book into a screenplay did a wonderful job. The movie was great (see the other reviews) my only real comment on it was it amused me to hear Vikings with Scottish accents, and American accented kids. But hey, I stayed up late more than one night just to listen to Craig Ferguson talk so I'm not complaining too loudly.