Worth Watching

Rating: 9/10 (24 August 2015)

How to Train Your Dragon tells the story of "Hiccup", a skinny, quirky young boy growing up in a Viking village. He's clumsy, intellectual and prone to inventing things using the raw technology available at the time. The village is a difficult place to live and the Vikings are portrayed as big, beefy, hearty men and women who have to fight not only the elements but invasions of attacking dragons, which they've fought for generations.
The Vikings in the village define their lives through their battles against the dragons, and Hiccup's father is the biggest and bravest of them all – and the leader of the village. He thinks Hiccup is not cut out for dragon-battle despite Hiccup's desire for just that very thing. Hiccup is fascinated by a blonde warrior Astrid, who in training can hold her own against the boys her own age with whom she is training.
There are many, many types and varieties of dragons shown in the movie, but the most elusive one – that no one has ever seen, is the mysterious and super-fast Night Fury. Hiccup uses one of his gadgets to bring down the Night Fury far from the village. Of course no one believes him, and he goes out in search of the deadly dragon. Finally Hiccup finds it (he names it "Toothless" ) and the film is basically about how they come to be friends.
From Toothless Hiccup learns how to train dragons and appears to subdue them in dragon battle training. Astrid is none too happy about it because she wants to be the number one pupil – eventually of course she decides to find out how exactly Hiccup is learning all these things and stumbles across his secret.
Overall I found How to Train Your Dragon to be great fun with the animation very detailed and awesome.