How to Train your Dragon (2010)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2010
	Director: Dean DeBlois (Lilo & Stitch), Chris Sanders (The Croods)
	Actors (voices): Jay Baruchel (The Magician's Apprecntice, This is the End), Gerard Butler (300, Gamer), Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jonah Hill (21, Jump Street)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Animation, Fantasy
	Conditions of visioning: 15.11.2015, HD VOD, Home cinema
Synopsis: The young Viking Hiccup (Baruchel) aspires to make his father (Butler) proud by killing dragons like all of his people is expected to. On a decisive night he actually befriends one instead of killing it.
Review: I had read some good about this animated movie and it must have had some success to generate many spin-off short movies and a sequel. I was at first disturbed by Jay Baruchel's voice that doesn't fit a young boy, but it turns out to loosely fit this nonchalant character, I got used to it and it gives a different style to the movie. The story is not particularly original but pleasant enough to follow in this Fantasy Viking society. Oh, I almost forgot to mention that in that world the dragons actually look and behave like... cats! This makes for some offbeat jokes including one involving the equivalent of a laser pointer. It is unfortunately too obvious that the target audience is young boys feeling outcast and that dream of becoming heroes like the main character does. Some scenes of the movie are remarkable like the ones showing the growing relationship between the boy and his dragon, the flight scenes (reminding of Avatar) or the whole ending. From the looks of the 2D version of the movie, I would expect the 3D version to be immersive (particularly during the flight scenes) and not too much in-your-face. It is probably worth watching in that format.
Rating: 6 /10