Wednesday, May 12, 2010

How To Train Your Dragon

Released Year: 2010
Directed by Chris Sanders & Dean Deblois

Vocal by:
Jay Baruchel as Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
America Ferrera as Astrid Hofferson
Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast
Craig Ferguson as Gobber the Belch
Story:
In the Berk Island, Stoick the Vast, chief of the Viking is leading his villagers to fight against the dragon who came and attack; while his son, Hiccup is an apprentice and work for Gobber the Belch. During the war of Viking and dragons, Hiccup shot down a rare dragon called Night Furry with a bolas cannon that he made.

Skinny Hiccup has always wanted to become like others to catch dragon, so he went to look for the dragon he caught on the next day but he didn't kill the dragon and just set it free. When the dragon is free, it did not kill Hiccup but just flew away. Stoick appointed Gobber to train the youngster of how to attack different types of dragon. In the camp, Hiccup met up with Astrid whom he likes a lot, but too bad, she's a rough and tough girl and she has no interest in boy but killing dragon. Gobber mentioned that dragon will kill human whenever they have chance, this make Hiccup confuse of why the Night Furry did not kill him.

Hiccup went back to the valley and brought a fish for the dragon. By touching each other, Hiccup slowly bond a friendship with the dragon and name him as Toothless. Toothless is fun and taught Hiccup a lot of knowledge/habbit about dragon. Hiccup later use all the tactics he learned to tame all dragon during his training. Everyone praise Hiccup and he started to get popular. Astrid doubts about Hiccup sudden improvement and went to trace down Hiccup.

Astrid discover that Hiccup has been taking care of Toothless including making a fake tail for Toothless. Hiccup beg Astrid not to tell others and took her for a ride on Toothless. While flying, Toothless followed a gang of dragon and fly into a cave. Seems like every dragon caught a fish to feed a gigantic dragon or else they will be killed. On the next day of battling, Hiccup did not kill the dragon and announced to everyone about the truth. Stoick get dissapointed and lead the team to catch Toothless. The vikings also went all their way to the gigantic dragon nest to kill him.

Hiccup teached other kids how to tame the dragon and they went riding on the dragon's back to the dragon nest. In the meanwhile, Stoick and gang can't defeat the gigantic dragon and everything is in the mess. Finally the kids reach on top of the dragon and faught with the gigantic dragon. Hiccup free Toothless and both of them used their new tactics to kill the gigantic dragon. But they also falled from sky. While Stoick thought he lost his son, but Toothless protected him with wings. Hiccup lost one leg and replace with a wooden leg. Every Viking is fancy with dragon and live peacefully with them now.
L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:
I missed this great movie in the cinema :( This is based on the children's story book from Canada. Heard that dreamwork production is gonna make a sequal of this film and its gonna be in a tv series in the year of 2013.

Overall its a very nice and cute movie, especially those different species of dragon... they make me laugh~ hahaha

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