Exhilarating

Rating: 10/10 (30 March 2010)

This was a great film, a legendary kid (Hiccupp)who seems to be the odd ball of the viking bunch befriending a dragon known as a Night Fury. The most powerful of all dragons, with great speed, and fire power. The misconception that dragons are to be feared is a two sided coin. The belief of lore is that in these tales knights would fight and kill these dragons because of their killing sprees, albeit to feed themselves or their young. In fact most stories include dragons as friends to those who protect them. Vikings were one of them, they did fight, but in later tales, they worked with them as close friends to protect each other. But in this tale, Toothless (Night Fury) was one of the special dragons which helped Hiccup believe in himself to fight the most dreaded dragon of them all. A beast with such size and strength, it matches no other. Nearly two hundred feet tall, with an appetite that could match most sumo wrestlers. The gist of this story is most of the dragons raided villages only to feed this monstrosity, and in some ways most of the dragons feared it, being a personal slave to the behemoth. But as luck would have it, Hiccup and his gang of misfits manage to work with their dragons that they trained with in viking school, to finally be rid of the Dreadnaught dragon. Hiccup's father just needed to see it with his own eyes to believe that dragons are not the enemy, and never were. This film had everything, fun, action, laughs, and sadness which compels the human heart or for that matter, a dragons heart. I enjoyed it beginning to end. What a refreshing way to see how the young and old can come to grips with the misconceptions of those long past tales and how the confusion got started in the first place. Brilliant movie.