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Rating: Null/10 (17 September 2010)

Yep - and I mean that from the bottom of my heart! Remember the faces of those hobbit-kids at the beginning from Lord of the Rings 1 when they're listening to Bilbo's story? I'm sure I've looked quite similar while I was watching this lovely fairytale 'How to Train your Dragon' unfold. Absolutely wonderful work, people from Dreamworks & Cressida Cowell - thank you very, very much!
The story starts right in the middle of a dragon-attack of a small Viking-village. Since generations the villagers and the dragons appear to be each others favourite enemies, but via Hiccup it turns out that this dragon-terror of stealing sheep happens for a more banal reason: the dragons themselves are dominated by an über-dragon (I guess the burning the houses-part is just a form of stress-release-for-dragons).
Ergo: the status quo of things is going to change, for both the villagers as for the dragons. And who's changing things? The über- Viking's son Hickup. Hiccup is not your average looser - Hiccup is different (and thank god for him that the other members of the tribe don't consider that to be a threat) - just different ....