- People, I love Vikings. They are superior to all other types of cult favourites that people like. Quite possibly, they are superior to ninjas, pirates, and cowboys combined. VIKINGS! These Vikings are Scottish, which I thought was weird but then I spent ten seconds googling this and apparently there were indeed Viking settlements in Scotland. I think I’m also confusing Vikings with the Saxons and the Sutton Hoo burial treasures.
- Totally worth seeing in 3D. Usually when I watch a 3D movie, the 3D effect begins to wear off midway through and feels pointless, otherwise the filmmakers abuse their 3D privileges by including hokey shots of pointy things coming out of the screen. At the end of this one when the ash was settling after the fight to end all fights with the dragon to end all dragons, I actually thought the ash was dust floating around in the theatre and was momentarily tempted to swat it away. (Fail, I know.)
- The animation itself was also quite spectacular; the hair in Hiccup’s dad’s beard was amazing, as were the skin textures on Toothless (and the rest), the water, and the whole flight/fight sequence.
- Speaking of which, I’m betting now that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire feels immense shame when comparing its unnecessarily long and completely pointless dragon chase scene with the spectacular chase scenes in this movie.
- The dragons were ADORABLE and amazing. They each had great little personalities and, yeah, you kind of want one as a pet.
- I liked Fishlegs calculating the various point values of each dragon they were to fight during training.
- The giant dragon that I am henceforth dubbing the Exogorth dragon was frightening as hell, oh my god. When it came busting out of the rocky cliff facade? EEK! I was a little dubious at it’s ability to fly, on account of it probably weighing seven zillion tons.
- “Your mother would have wanted you to have it… It’s half her breastplate.” HAHA.
- Loved that the Viking ladies got to go fight dragons with the best of the male Vikings. Go team!
- “Bride of Grendel”. I love a good Beowulf joke.
- Loved the dragon textbook Hiccup read and all the fabulous drawings inside. I also loved that they continued these drawings into the closing credits.
- Gobber’s various attachments for his prosthetic limbs were great, especially his built-in tankard and his rotisserie chicken skewer.
- Note to self: in the future, a 7:10pm screening of a kids film will still be packed with kids weeks after a movie is first released. Note to parents: make your kids go to the bathroom before you leave the house and, for the love of Odin, don’t buy them anything to drink once you’re at the theatre! Up and down and up and down and up and down the stairs we go.
- Checking my stats, this is the best movie I’ve seen yet this year, apparently.
How To Train Your Dragon
Delightful and wonderful!
IMDB Plot Synopsis A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.
3. OMG! His beard was amazing! The knots at the ends? Brilliant touch. So was umm Gobber’s eyebrows (or monobrow), almost distracting they were so good.
8. hee yah I giggled at that too
13. I saw this at 5pm, but was kinda happy to have the kids in the theatre. Then my giggling like a 6 year old wouldnt be so strange ;D
Gerard Butler is the favorite actor of my sister because he got this macho factor.”~;
3d movies are so cool, i just wish that we could watch 3d movies on TV’~”