How To Train Your Dragon

In my eyes Dreamworks Animation Studios has always been unable to find its way from under Pixar's giant shadow. Dreamworks has made some entertaining movies, but has never reached the greatness in storytelling that the guys and gals at Pixar give us every single time. Well now we have How To Train Your Dragon, and this time Dreamworks got it right. It tells the story of a kid named Hiccup, he's a Viking but you wouldn't be able to tell it by looking at him. He's scrawny, timid, and not really good at doing what Vikings do best, killing dragons. One day he actually ends up trapping a dragon that no one in his village has even seen, but when he goes to kill the dragon, he just cant do it. This was crushing to him inside knowing he didn't have it in him to do the one thing Vikings were born to do. After this crushing blow something happens between him and the dragon the he eventually names Toothless that made him look at dragons in a completely different way. What I like about 'Dragon' so much is the fact that the story develops so well, it's always natural and never feels hokey or forced like most Dreamworks films do. Hiccup really has to earn the trust of Toothless before the dragon even let's him interact with it, and there are a few surprises and plot twists that truly keep this story very interesting. It never stays in one place to long and we find out something about the dragons near the end of the movie that ends up changing the whole film. As I was watching it though it had occurred to me that this is Avatar with dragons. One person finds himself on the inside of a misunderstood society and ends up trying to protect them, it's the same thing. I'm not complaining, Avatar was awesome, and so is How To Train Your Dragon. Dreamworks best film to date, and it's about time. Pixar you now have real competition.

5 out of 5

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