Dragons are fun little creatures

How to Train Your Dragon (2010)

I keep bashing formulaic movies all the time and most of the time there's a very good reason to do that. But what about a predictable, formulaic, entertaining, heart warming, fun and great looking movie like this? Well it's not bad, that's for sure. The story is this movie's weakest part, being the same old story but with new characters and surroundings. It's about this young Viking boy whose village is being terrorized by dragons. He's not a brutal killer like the others and ends up becoming friends with one of the dragons. The Vikings, who speak with Scottish accent and somewhat reminded me of another Dreamworks' character (the green one), are surprisingly fun bunch of people. The dragons are quite personal also, not exactly scary but then again this is a children's movie so that's ok. The voice acting is very good and a pleasant surprise that there weren't that many big stars in the cast making it feel a lot more personal. The movie is brilliantly done, it looks stunning and is entertaining throughout with a nice heart warming feeling to it. So no matter that it's formulaic, this movie works so well that it's for sure great entertainment for the whole family, there's something for everyone in there.
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