{5\/5} “My name’s Hiccup. Great name, I know. But, it’s not the worst. Parents believe a hideous name will frighten off gnomes and trolls. Like our charming Viking demeanor wouldn’t do that.”<\/p>\n
Hiccup is a Viking. He lives in Berk, a small hillside village whose people fish and herd sheep. But occasionally fierce dragons come and attack them — of course, the Vikings bravely beat back the dragons each time, though often their homes are burned to the ground in the process. Hiccup is small for a Viking, but he’s created a gun to kill a dragon. He ends up capturing a dragon but inexplicably releases it. He comes to realize that the dragons are perhaps not the enemy everyone thinks they are.<\/p>\n
How To Train Your Dragon<\/strong> was released in 2010. This is the second or third time I’ve seen it. I’ve also watched the first season of Dragons: Riders of Berk <\/strong><\/a>which continues the story after this movie.<\/strong><\/p>\n In case it happens to return to theatres, I do remember that the 3D in this movie was\u00a0stunning — flying on a dragon would be fun.<\/p>\n The first 7 minutes are a brilliant introduction to the setting, characters, and situation. It’s exciting and funny.<\/p>\n It’s about friendship and caring enough to learn the truth.<\/p>\n The animation is gorgeous.<\/p>\n The only problem I have with the movie is with the ultimate villain.*<\/p>\n Other than that, it’s enjoyable from start to finish.<\/p>\n The music is intriguing right from the first few notes. It’s one of my favourite soundtracks, and it’s by John Powell (Chicken Run<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n Jay Baruchel (Fanboys<\/strong>)\u00a0voices Hiccup and America Ferrera\u00a0(the TV show Ugly Betty<\/strong>)\u00a0voices Astrid. Gerard Butler (Reign of Fire<\/strong>) voices Stoick and Craig Ferguson (Brave<\/strong><\/a>) voices Gobber. Jonah Hill (Megamind<\/strong><\/a>) voices Snotlout and Kristen Wiig (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty<\/strong><\/a>) voices Ruffnut.<\/p>\n The movie was directed by\u00a0Dean DeBlois\u00a0and Chris Sanders\u00a0(Lilo & Stitch<\/strong>).<\/p>\n The sequel is now in theatres.<\/p>\n Spoiler alert<\/strong><\/p>\n *The villain is just a larger dragon. Why\u00a0can all the regular-sized dragons be dealt with peacefully but the larger dragon must be killed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {5\/5} “My name’s Hiccup. Great name, I know. But, it’s not the worst. Parents believe a hideous name will frighten off gnomes and trolls. Like our charming Viking demeanor wouldn’t do that.” Hiccup is a Viking. He lives in Berk, a small hillside village whose people fish and herd sheep. But occasionally fierce dragons come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,9,6,5],"class_list":["post-5181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5181"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5405,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions\/5405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}