Dragon Movie - Enough Said

Rating: 8/10 (10 September 2017)

I remember seeing this film ages ago, but since I hadn't posted my thoughts on it up on IMDb (and also that I prefer to write down my thoughts after having recently seen the film), I decided to sit down and watch it again. Well, there was also the fact that the sequel had recently been on television, and I wanted a bit of a refresher before delving into that one, and anyway, it was also a pretty good movie, at least from what I can remember. Well, now that I have watched it a second time much more recently, I can certainly attest to it being a pretty cool movie.
The film is set in a viking village that happens to have a dragon problem. As such all of the inhabitants are geared towards killing dragons, all except Hiccup, who happens to be rather scrawny. However, despite his stature, he is a bit of an inventor, and he invents a device designed to bring down a dragon, which he does. However, when he finds the dragon instead of killing it, he frees it, and slowly discovers that dragons are nowhere near as bad as everybody else thought.
As I mentioned, this is a pretty cool movie. It's a kids movie which generally means nobody is going to die (with the exception of the bad guy), and despite the antagonists being dragons, they refrain from killing any of the dragons either. Then again, the movie is trying to build our sympathy towards the dragons, so it probably helps with that by having the no killing rule on them as well.
So, the film is about misunderstandings, and how misunderstandings can lead to generations of warfare. This is the case with dragons because while they seem to be dangerous, in reality, when you get to know them, and also show them friendship, then they will actually respond in kind. However, while Hiccup knows the truth, actually convincing others of it is a different story. The other thing is that the young in the village have to go to dragon fighting school, and in using what he has learnt from Toothless, he is able to excel, that is until they ask him to actually kill a dragon.
Okay, I have mentioned it a few times now, but saying it again won't hurt, and that is that this is a pretty cool, and entertaining, film. Now I have to go off an watch the sequel.