How to Train Your Dragon :D

Location: Laptop in front of desktop
Mood: Sleepy
Just did: Checked email
Listening to: Lost Road to Heaven (my own composition)

We watched it two days ago. What do I have to say? WOW. I mean, knowing what a staunch anti-Dreamworks person I am (they made our family waste money on the Monsters vs. Aliens 3D tickets!), I'm really saying something when I say that I LOVED HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON.

It's everything anyone would want in a dragon-human movie, and more. It's not just adventure. Yeah, maybe it's the typical son-trying-to-please-father plot. And maybe it's on the cliched (as mentioned) a-boy-and-his-dragon subject. But when you combine the two, you get something really, really, really awesome.

Now for more specifics on the storyline. Since it's Dreamworks, I wasn't surprised to find out that it was a storybook adaptation. I can't expect Dreamworks to come up with a storyline like this. But original or not, it went with the animation SO WELL. For once, this company created something really beautiful, and it was perfect. The story absolutely deserved beauty, and the animators gave it.

So the story went well with the animation. But why would I want you to watch this movie, and not another animated fantasy? Because even if the rest was the usual fantasy type, the last ten minutes was the most wonderful twist on the genre of the children's movie that I've ever seen (other than the wholes of Ratatouille, Wall-e and Up, of course). So even if you can't stand fantasy or animation or both, just watch it for the ending. THE ENDING.

Oh, did I also tell you that I adore people with names adapted from words? Hiccup is an absolutely wonderful name for the main character. :D


So watch How to Train Your Dragon! It's totally worth your money. And get it in 3D too. We chose not to watch it in 3D, and I'm quite sure we missed a lot when it came to the flight scenes.

And the usual footnote. OTDOTS is now 353 pages long, with 140,445 words.