How to Train Your Dragon
Reviewed by Savira Larasati
How to Train Your Dragon is a computer-animated action-fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation based on the British book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell. The film was directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, the duo who directed Disney's Lilo & Stitch. It stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.
The film was released March 26, 2010 and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score at the 83rd Academy Awards, but lost to Toy Story 3 and The Social Network, respectively. The movie also won ten Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature.
Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) is not a popular Viking. He is scrawny, he is nerdy (he has a knack for invention), and he is so clumsy that he gets in the way of how most of his fellow Vikings spend their time to fighting dragons. To make matters worse, Hiccup’s father Stoick (Gerard Butler) is the chief of the village and the best dragon-slayer around. In an effort to prove himself to everyone, Hiccup uses a bola-catapult to bring down a dragon, but no one sees it. He sets off to find the felled dragon only to discover it’s still alive, but captured in the ropes of the bola. Unable to bring himself to kill the creature, Hiccup begins training the dragon-who he names “Toothless” due to the dragon’s retractable teeth-and discovers that they’re not the violent predators they’re made out to be by Viking lore.
The animation is very detailed, although a little more expressiveness in the characters’ faces might have been nice and all voice actors provide great performances that always keep pace with both the humor and the range of the characters’ emotions. It also has a strong moral lesson about how it’s more courageous to be kind than to be violent.
Overall, How to Train Your Dragon is an excellent movie and we enjoyed it from beginning to end. Feel free to bring kids of all ages to this one, nothing in it is inappropriate or so scary that it would give the little ones nightmares. Personally, I’m looking forward to seeing it again.
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