Best Animated Feature...ever.

Rating: 10/10 (4 April 2010)

I went into this movie with much curiosity because of the excessively good reviews, and I will simply say that this is the best animated movie of all time. From the beginning I was simply in awe because of how beautifully done the 3D was, and how amazingly it was visually. Although, visuals SHOULD NOT be the only thing to drive a movie forward... but How to Train Your Dragon has it all. The plot immediately caught my interest and held on until after it was all over. It just felt so real... a feeling animated features rarely give me. The strongest factor in this feeling was the character development. Every single character in this film developed and changed in the same ways real people do. Nothing extreme like going from evil to good, but in more subtle ways just as real people do. My personal favorite character was Toothless the "Night Fury" dragon. I could not believe how much personality this non speaking creature had...it reminded me so much of how a pet would act in real life only with a bit more intelligence. The musical score and the animation matched (maybe even surpassed) Pixar in quality. See this in 3D as it is meant to be. Visually and emotionally STUNNING!