if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Dreamworks has done it again with a well made film for the whole family to enjoy. A great cast as the voices with Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. A well written story about a young boy who is to be a Viking Daragonslayer as he grows into it. He is much smaller and frail than the rest of the kids but he has drive and ambition. What he finds is that the dragons are not as mean and ugly as they are represented. It is a creatively drawn format on how a boy befriends and trains a dragon. I thought the film flowed perfectly and was well made in animation and cinematography. I strongly suggest watching this film, it is a feel good action and comedy animated success 8 out of 10

I OFFICIALLY WANT A PET DRAGON. I literally fell in love with the Dragon that it feels that his (yes I said his) character arc is even deeper than the main character's. 10/10 no thought about it.

So in my review of The Prince of Egypt, I briefly mentioned how I adored the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. And... yeah I do. Today I am only talking about the first one, the second one is so amazing that it needs it's own review too.This 2010 DreamWorks film is one of the most beautiful 3D-animated movies I've ever seen. Amazing animation, first of all. It is very photo-realistic. I can get lost in the world it establishes so well. It's one of the best looking world I've ever seen, on par with Avatar (2009). The flying scenes especially make you feel you are flying with the dragons.The story is riddled with cliche's, HOWEVER this is one of the times when the writing, pacing, and characters are so well done that it makes me feel like I'm hearing the cliche's for the first time. The story follows the formula of Steven Spielberg's E.T. with Hiccup, the main character, hiding the seemingly monstrous but apparently harmless dragon Toothless from his father and other vikings, however I would argue it's done as good if not better than it. On a side note, the sequence after (SPOILER) Hiccup loses a leg and Toothless helps him is not only heartwarming in of itself, but it is reflective of earlier in the film where Hiccup helps Toothless with his broken tail to help him fly again.The characters are all memorable, understandable and likable, and that includes all the various dragons (I love you Toothless). On the subject of the dragons, this is one of the few movies I've ever seen that doesn't personify or anthropomorphize the dragons, but it treats them like they are ACTUAL animals, not monstrous beasts as the vikings in the film see them as first. Hiccup and Toothless, the main character and main dragon, are some of my favorite DreamWorks characters.This film is very emotionally investing, partially due to the writing as well as the tone of this movie, which knows when to be dramatic and funny at appropriate times.Overall, this film and the sequel (which I'll talk about another time) is fantastic and one of the few things that prevents DreamWorks from being a complete laughing stock the past decade.RATING:9/10

Overall this is a fun and entertaining movie. I would highly recommend this one. Animation - The animation in this movie is absolutely incredible. The creature design is fantastic. Characters - A lot of these characters are pretty underdeveloped. Most of the plot relies on characters making dumb decisions. There are many points in this movie when I want to yell at characters for being idiots. Plot - The plot is full of devices that make mad. There are so many instances in this movie where illogical things just happen to be convenient for the plot. There are lots of things that are set up and then later ignored. Overall the story is very entertaining but there is enough stupid in it holding it back from being as great as it could be. That doesn't mean that this movie isn't extremely entertaining. There's just a little too much nonsense for it to be as good as it could be.