How to Train Your Dragon

^ Yeah, nice revision, good as Ht TYD was, it was no Galaxy Quest.

better than The Prince Of Egypt and Road To El Dorado?

edited 30th Mar '10 7:32:57 AM by Noimporta

No way. It's great, but it's no Road To El Dorado.

Chester A. Bum's comments about "Viking accents" intrigues me.

at least Gerard Butler doesn't sound so out of place anymore

I saw this movie, finally. It annoyed me the main characters didn't have accents. It annoyed me how you could've removed the girl character and the movie would've been almost entirely unchanged.

However, I did really like it. A lot.

edited 5th Apr '10 1:52:12 PM by A_H_R

What do you mean? All the young characters had accents. It was the adults that didn't.

I liked this movie quite a bit, especially as it partially subverted the Disney death trope, but I really liked the mother dragon.

Seriously, that thing deserves the esteemed title of being one of the last bosses of the internet. can anyone find any pictures or screens of it?

edited 7th Apr '10 5:29:34 AM by 17thOrb

What do you mean? All the young characters had accents. It was the adults that didn't.

the kids who had American accents

the adults had Scottish ones

Which is appropriate, because Scotland is totally viking...

(Then again, apparently Lithuania is a suburb of Scotland... )

I've not seen HTTYD, and am debating whether or not to do so, though, so I can't offer anything more concrete to this thead. Sorry.

the Scots had numerous run-ins with the Vikings

I suppose since it's just such a Bad Ass accent when compared to modern Scandinavian

On an unrelated note, the impression of the scottish accent by the main character sounds a lot like Shrek

Yeah. More support for my theory that he was adopted

You reminded me of how the March Hare in the new Alice in Wonderland sounded just like Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons. Best character in the film!

that fight with the mother dragon was the most badass thing ever!

it was like Shadow Of The Colossus but with FLYING!

Antz remains Dream Works' best animated feature.

How to Train Your Dragon had a great premise, great setting... and bad, hackneyed villain and climax. Yaaaaaaaaawn. Could have been much better.

other way around

the kids who had American accents

the adults had Scottish ones

Exactly. Scots don't have an accent; everyone else does.

My only wish is that the Dragons were stylized differently. Dragons are cool, but these one's are just too cartoony.

Andrew must be a Scott..

Anyhow, I saw the movie last night, and loved it for being a refreshing take of obviously many cliched plots. I have few complaints such as the love interest who not only could have been removed form the movie entirely, but the hook up seemed forced, predictable, and without reason. Hiccup being vaguely without an accent bugged me quite a bit, but besides that I had no problems with this movie.

The art was beautiful and detailed right down to the movement of the hair, and the slight scar on the chin of Hiccup that just shows how much work and detail they put into making each of these characters look different.

The thing I liked a lot about this movie was that it seemed a lot like other animated films that seemed to take a major in comedy and a minor in action/adventure. HTTYD was refreshing because it was an animated movie that was your basic action story, that just happened to be funny. Neither elements seemed forced into the story.

(bump)

I took my four year-old son to see the film this Saturday, and he loved it and spent the rest of the weekend raving about dragons and pretending to be one. I was bracing myself for a cringeworthy Cliché Storm but found exactly what others have said: a surprisingly fun film that doesn't treat viewers like, well, four year olds. There was surprisingly little Fridge Logic and the filmmakers didn't pretend they were inventing the Greatest Story Ever; they just skipped to the actual storytelling.

The final battle with the Green Death (or whatever its name is; it was not named on-screen but apparently is All There in the Manual) was amazing. I found myself forgetting that it's supposed to be a children's movie and rooting for Hiccup and Toothless every bit as much as the kids.

I'd watch it again in a heartbeat and this is definitely one for the DVD/Blu-Ray library.

Fun story, we went to the bookstore after watching the movie and my wife was a bit taken aback to discover that the book is actually a series of young adult novels. We ended up buying two of the junior reader movie storybooks. I read them to my son at bedtime, and I have a feeling they'll be the standard bedtime stories for the next week at least.

His favorite question: "Why did they tie up Toothless?" That part really made him sad.

edited 12th Apr '10 9:21:50 AM by Fighteer

Yeah, they used to be novels. They were a bit more grittier (well, as grittier as a kid-friendly book can get) and a lot of the plot points are different, but the message is the same.

Also, speaking of the tying up Toothless scene, I can see a lot of kids being inducted through that. Hahaha.

So, who here agrees you could erase the girl and the entire movie would probably go exactly the same?

That's odd; from the comments on the film page here on This Wiki, tropers thought that the books were lighter in tone than the movie.

Astrid's presence... well, yeah. Every plucky male hero figure needs a token girlfriend; otherwise you'd run afoul of A Man Is Not A Virgin (or its teenager equivalent). That's such a Hollywood rule that I can't imagine a film without it.

Really? Maybe it's just my nostalgia filter working then =/, but I always felt it was more 'cruddier' if you would. Not more mature, really, just an odd tone.

Yeah, and the omnipresence of Astrid-esque characters me.

edited 12th Apr '10 1:32:09 PM by A_H_R