Overall thoughts: This is hands down the best CG movie in about 6 or so years rivaled only by Toy Story 3. How to train your dragon is what pixar should be making. It treats its viewers like we have intelligence unlike some Pixar films *coughcarscough*. How to train your dragon doesn't have a single bit of redneck down yonder humor like certain Disney films. Its a film that is surprisingly dark and dramatic but has some great comedic bits. The voice actors pull this off very well from Craig Ferguson, to Gerald Butler
all are handled wonderfully. Now for what a lot of people wonder with any CG film, how does it look? Fantastic, its world is one of battles, dragons, vikings, and dark and bright scenery and it is all brought vividly to life by the wonderful animation that is a bit cartoonish at times but not to the point of Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. Every time i see the scene of Hiccup and the dragon, toothless taking there first flight i get chills. By the end of the film emotions have run the gamet, you a have felt happy,sad,angry and everything in between.
Score: 9.5 out of 10 A near perfect film, that needed a little bit more originality to be flawless, take note Disney, this is how you make a movie. Fun fact in case you were wondering Pixar has done zero fantasy based films, there last films have been, Indie (wall-e), Family fun (UP) and sequel (Toy Story 3)
I love this movie! It's absolutely fantastic. You did a very accurate review for it. :) I'm glad to see more appreciation of it!
ReplyDeleteThe only thing is, my guess is that you haven't seen Tangled by Disney yet. Tangled, while a very different story from HTTYD and with different concepts and aims, competes with How to Train Your Dragon as my favorite 3D animated movie. I seriously suggest seeing Tangled (if you haven't already) if you loved HTTYD this much. It's also fun, beautiful, extremely well done, and sincere emotion-evoking.