How To Train Your Dragon

Directors: Chris Sanders, Dean Beblois
Writers: Chris Sanders, Dean Deblois, Cressida Cowell (author)
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerrard Butler
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

From the director of Lilo and Stitch comes another adorable animated family film, How To Train Your Dragon. Set in the Viking times of a town called Burk, Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) is the impish teenage son of the great Stoick (Gerard Butler), with no expectations. When Burk is attacked by dragons (which occurs often), Hiccup sneaks out of his house to try and catch a dragon. He does and no one believes him. When Hiccup finds the dragon a few days later and can’t find the courage to kill him, he lets him free and comes up with an original idea to train this adorable creature. Hiccup names the dragon, Toothless and starts what may create a revolution within the town of Burk. Jay Baruchel is on a roll of great films with She’s Out Of My League and now How To Train Your Dragon. He is the perfect voice of Hiccup and in my opinion, he should voice every animated teenage boy, with his awkwardly funny voice that everyone just can’t get enough of. America Ferrera does good voice work as Hiccup’s love interest, Astrid and Gerard Butler finally get’s to use his thick Scottish accent as Hiccup’s father. Jonah Hill, Kristen Wiig, T.J. Miller and Christopher Mintz-Plasse are all hilarious as Hiccup’s friends and talk show host Craig Ferguson lends his Scottish accent to the film as Gobber, Hiccups mentor and Stoick’s good friend. Although I have seen some great films this month, How To Train Your Dragon was surprisingly the most enjoyable for me to watch. Based on the children’s book by Cressida Cowell, How To Train Your Dragon has one of the most original, clever, simple scripts, written for a children’s movie. Everything happening in the movie is for the one simple plot played out in the film. Now I would usually add my comments on the imperfections of this great film, but I’m all out of answers. If that means less writing for me, it also means less reading for you. How To Train Your Dragon has one of the most genuinely touching stories displayed on screen and the 3D effects aren’t bad either. How To Train Your Dragon is a must see for all ages.