How to Train Your Dragon

[quarter_to_five]

This was nice bit of fluff. I liked that the love interest got to be genuinely badass (to the point of being a little nuts) but since she was tagged very early on as the love interest she was just narratively unconvincing as the foil for most of the movie, so that undercut it a little. Not sure about the kids having different accents from the adults either. Seems like pandering. Wasn't super in-love with the animation either, come to think of it. Eh, i'll stop complaining now. It was nice. 

Comments

[retsuko]

I liked that movie, too, and Astrid was pretty cool, except I could not understand how she sat down in that spiked skirt! I think Toothless was my favorite character, though, mostly because she/he seemed to be, alternately, a cat or a dog in a dragon's body.

[quarter_to_five]

I did like Toothless, he has this weird, like-a-cat-but-not-a-cat, familiar but weird thing going where he managed to be both quite cute and quite alien. I think the rest of the dragons being more broadly spiky and silly and cartoonish let it down a bit though.