Best Animation Story of the Last Decade

Rating: 10/10 (15 November 2014)

I almost never gives tens. But the more I look back on this unassuming, fatefully named animation production and the aftereffect that it has had. Not only for Dreamworks, but for other animations to follow (Frozen being a good example) the idea of a "serious story with serious themes, but made for children" has been taken to a whole new level with this film - Dreamworks and otherwise.
Warning several clichés are used in this film, but its (almost) impossible to find a decent one that doesn't. Vikings speak Scottish, children don't, weaponry and terminology centuries ahead of its time, and well... dragons. None of it makes sense. It doesn't even follow the book it's based on. But it works. It really does.
As previously said by others, Dreamworks Animation should see this production as their new "true north". Credible characters, positive roll models, great music and, above all, dragons! Kids love it and so do I.