Saturday, March 27, 2010

MOVIEW REVIEW - How To Train Your Dragon

It's really great when a major studio makes an animated movie, that is completely family friendly, and a great story at the same time.

How To Train Your Dragon (especially in 3-D) is a fantastic new flick, that kids and adults alike will love. A wonderful little story of Vikings and Dragons, and their at first adversarial relationship, but in the end, they of course learn to live in harmony. That's HTTYD in a nutshell. There's really no reason to go into the plot in detail. It's just fun for families to go and explore a new adventure together.

Fantastic animation and 3-D that is a rival of Alice in Wonderland, and even Avatar. This movie is simply well done. One thing I really like about the way Dreamworks does animated movies is that it doesn't follow any other studio's formula. There's no huge production singing numbers, or memorable songs to sing in at the end. They simply make animated movies for youngsters that are more like adult movies....just for kids.

HTTYD is a tidy 90 minutes and filled with wonderful animation, terrific voice performances, and sizzling 3-D that will leave you breathless. This movie may be possibly a bit too intense at times for the very young. (You know your kids the best). There are some dragon battle scenes that could put a shiver through some. But for most, this will be simply a fun afternoon or evening at the moves.

How To Train Your Dragon. Well done!

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