Welcome to my third movie review but this one will be different from my last two. My first review was of Quest For Camelot, which hardly anyone dikomen on after I worked HARD on it. Anyway in that review I talked about the movie's problems but that it shouldn't get the criticisms it gets, especially when other Filem do similar things but people don't mind. keseluruhan it was a great movie with an amazing, well-developed, and totally kicka** protagonist, lovely animation, incredible songs, and some funny comedy. I will admit it could have been better but for what it is it's still really great.

In my saat review I talked about Beauty and The Beast and The Enchanted Christmas. A movie that gets a lot of hate when it's one of the best Disney sequels and in my opinion is one of my kegemaran movies. They stayed true to the characters, had beautiful and artistic animasi (though no where near as good as the original animation), some great songs, menunjukkan lebih to Belle and Beast's relationship, a pretty cool villain, amazing emotion, and a lot of heart. Truly a Disney and a Krismas classic that's unfortunately underrated.

In this review I am actually a lot lebih negative because I feel like this movie is HIGHLY overrated and has A LOT of problems. Now let me be clear, I do NOT think this is a bad movie, though it's not good. In my opinion it's just okay. It has some good things but unfortunately a lot of bad and silly things out weigh it. Without any further ado, here is my review of How To Train Your Dragon.

We open up with some kind of Scottish, Irish, German, atau whatever kind of land, it's never really explained. Anyway, we get a narration from an irritatingly annoying voice that I can't stand. Wow, it sure didn't take me very long to find something to complain about. Anyway it turns out this is a land of vikings, so I guess we're in Scandinavia, okay so I guess that takes away from my first complaint. Anyway it turns out these vikings have a little pest problem, depending on what your definition of small is, because their pest problem it turns out are dragons, Naga that don't look like Naga apparently. Also apparently vikings are too hardheaded and stupid to just leave and think it's a lot better to risk their lives trying to fight and kill the dragons. I will give the movie credit for actually mentioning it in the annoying voice narration.

It turns out the annoying voice is that of our protagonist, Hiccup, a scrawny and dorky teenage boy. Hiccup? What was Burp and Achoo taken? They couldn't give the guy a better name, it's like they're trying to beat us over the head with the fact that he's a dork! But I digress. The village is being attacked sejak "dragons" and Hiccup is trying to help but no one wants his help because he's such a dork and will mess things up. He's apparently only allowed out to help give the real vikings weapons. Hiccup wants to kill a dragon to make something of himself but apparently he can't until he stops being everything he is. Mean spirited much? This is a kids movie?

Anyway Hiccup sneaks out and tries to kill a dragon called a Night Fury, which no one has ever seen atau killed before because it flies so fast that no one has the chance. But Hiccup manages to hit it and assumes that he killed it. He starts geeking out about how great he is, which he does a lot of in the beginning, which is very irritating, and doesn't notice a dragon behind him that was about to kill him until he runs off. Long story story he makes a big mess of the village, the Naga leave, the chief is Hiccup's dad, he's a real d bag, Hiccup acts like he's a strong dragon killer (ANNOYING), and he's sent utama with an escort.

We cut to Hiccup's house where Hiccup talks about how ashamed his father is of him. That dude who is so unmemorable that I don't even bother to remember his name makes it worse when he tries to cheer him up that it's not what he looks like but it's what's inside that his father can't stand. Man, this movie really is mean spirited! Anyway when Hiccup goes inside he sneaks off into the woods to try to find the dragon he caught.

The chief assembles a meeting to decide who will sertai him on their quest to find the dragon's nest and threatens those who don't come to watch Hiccup, so they all decide to go. WHAT THE HECK? He's using watching his son as a threat that's apparently worse than going off on a dangerous journey that could cost them their lives? COME ON ALREADY! That's just HORRIBLE and too mean spirited! Afterwards the chief discusses with what's his face about what to do with Hiccup, while the chief continues to talk bad about his son, yeah father of the freaking year, and what's his face decides that it's best to put him in dragon training. Shouldn't they have done that in the first place? Wouldn't that have saved them a lot of this mean spirited-ness and complaining? Also the chief says that when he was a boy and his father told him to bang his head against the dinding atau rock atau whatever and he did it. So he was stupid enough to do that and Hiccup is the problem? I wouldn't care if my dad told me to do that! I would tell him if he thinks I'm doing that he's NUTS! So instead of getting the biggest headache EVER he apparently breaks it in half and saw that it means that it shows what a viking is capable of. It also shows why viking are closed-minded morons! But in the end they decide Hiccup will sertai dragon training, even though they should have done that in the first freaking place.

We are then cut to Hiccup who finds the dragon and thinks it's dead but it turns out it's not. He tells it that he's going to cut out it's hati, tengah-tengah and bring it to his father, dude you're stealing material from the Evil Queen from Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. But he can't do it and instead cuts it free, the dragon corners Hiccup against a rock, stares at him, roars in his face, and then takes off (sort of). We then come back to Hiccup and his dad talking about how Hiccup doesn't want to slay Naga anymore and how he's going to dragon training, talk about bad timing. His dad then tells him that he needs to stop being everything he is, mean spirited and one-sided.

We then cut to the first hari of dragon training where of course Hiccup is being mocked, as always. Good gosh, everyone in this movie is against him! Anyway we have a macho idiot that tries to act like he's all that, a large and nerdy guy who constantly blurts out facts and looks like an early Rekaan of Young MacGuffin (maybe they're cousins), two twins that constantly fight and never agree on anything, and lastly the only one of them who's name I can actually remember, Astrid, the total kicka** tough girl that's a real pro but is a real b*tch. I wonder if she'll turn into a generic and unnecessary Cinta interest with no real point of existing.

Anyway they end up fighting a dragon for practice because what's his face believes in learning on the job. Boy, this guy makes Mr. Barkin from Kim Possible look soft and that's saying something. The macho idiot flirts with Astrid, who ignores him, so he gets blasted and is out of the game atau whatever but doesn't die, the twins fight and are out too, the geeky one is out, and Hiccup is out of course leaving Astrid to be the winner. Hiccup is almost killed sejak the dragon until the teacher saves him. It all ends with the teacher saying to kill a dragon whenever they have a chance because it will kill on sight.

Hiccup then goes off into the woods to find out why the Night Fury didn't kill him. He follows a trail of broken pokok branches and finds the dragon down in some kind of pit atau whatever, I don't know. Hiccup wonders why it doesn't fly away and later in the film we'll find out because if a dragon's wing atau tail is damaged it can't fly and because of Hiccup the Night Fury's tail is damaged so it can't fly. Hiccup tries to draw the dragon but drops his pencil and the dragon sees him. They stare at each other for a moment as they examine each other.

The seterusnya hari in dragon training Hiccup continues to ask soalan about Naga while being chased sejak one. Is that really the best time to be asking about that? Anyways they all mess up except for of course Astrid, who takes down the dragon. She then acts b*tchy towards Hiccup and says their parents war is about to become their's so he needs to figure out who's side he's on.

I think this is a good time to bring up a little problem that the movie has. Why is it that all the other vikings have accents but the teenagers don't? They talk like american's and not like the other vikings. Shouldn't they also have accents? I mean Frozen didn't have their characters have accents but all except for the Oaken guy didn't have accent so I let it slide. But when almost all of the characters except for a certain number don't have accents it sticks out like a sore thumb. One of the things I loved about Brave what that all the actors were Scottish and had accents, which fit the setting of the movie. This movie is just ridiculous with this plot hole! I wish the teenagers did have accents because at least than maybe they would've gotten a voice for Hiccup that wasn't so dang painful to listen to!

Anyway the story continues with Hiccup and the dragon, which he names Toothless, slowly becoming friends. In my opinion this is the strongest aspect of the movie. Their friendship is very touching, it's not rushed, is believable, their bond is strong, and is just incredible. We have several scenes of them getting close together and eventually Hiccup creates something that will help Toothless fly but he needs Hiccup to ride him in order for it to work. It even makes for some great action moments, which I wish this movie had lebih of.



During all of this Hiccup uses tricks he learned from being with Toothless to take down the Naga in Dragon Training without fighting atau killing them. He ends up becoming a huge celebrity in the village and makes Astrid incredibly jealous and continues to act b*tchy.

The chief and the volunteer's come back and the chief is pleased to find out how great Hiccup is doing in dragon training. The hari comes where the elder picks who will kill a dragon and sertai the army atau whatever, which is between Hiccup and Astrid. Hiccup wins and now he has to kill a dragon so he decides that he and Toothless are going to run away.

I have to be honest, this movie would've been lebih interesting if Hiccup ran away with the dragon earlier in the movie and it's about Hiccup traveling around and discovering new things about all of the dragons. That would've been really interesting and we'd have a lot less of the closed-minded parent, the unmemorable supporting character, the mean spirited-ness, and the lies that will lead to a liar reveal moment bla, bla. bla! Talk about a complete missed opportunity, I know this was based off a book but take a look at Shrek and Tangled, they're based off buku and they're completely different from the original sumber material and it was really for the better. But I digress!

Apparently Astrid had been following Hiccup, demands to know how he got so good so fast, and ends up beating Hiccup like the b*tch she is. Toothless see's Astrid, gets scared, he and Astrid are about to fight, but Hiccup stops them, and Astrid goes off to tell everyone about this. Hiccup and Toothless stop her and Hiccup forces her to listen to him sejak menunjukkan her how amazing flying is. At first it doesn't go well but when Astrid apologizes, Toothless starts to loosen up and she's able to see the beauty of flying.

I will admit that animasi in that scene was pretty impressive but the rest of the animasi in my opinion is very standard computer animation. It's not bad and it's lebih than just okay, it's just not incredible like a lot of people say it is. It's nice but pretty standard for computer animation. When I think about Filem that are computer animated that have amazing animasi I think of Filem like Brave, the Shrek sequels (though the original had some good animasi too), Legend of The Guardians, and especially Rise of The Guardians, which in my opinion is the best computer animasi EVER. World around the characters were realistic, the character's looked realistic (minus a few characters from Brave), there was a lot of detail, and the effects were mind blowing. This movie's animasi is not anything special and is highly overrated.

Anyway it is now night time and apparently a hole group of Naga gather as they travel to their nest. Apparently they need to gather Makanan for their Queen bee dragon, which is the only dragon in the whole movie that looks like a dragon but we'll get to that later, and if they don't it will eat them. Okay, this is actually really complicated. First of all since when are Naga like bees, ants, and termites? Since when do they have some kind of Queen that they serve atau they will die? If that was the case shouldn't only Naga of the same species be doing this instead of a whole bunch of different ones doing this for one huge dragons? Plus why don't they just leave and never come back? What's making them come back? This dragon can't force them all to come back and with their powers combined they can take it down. This makes absolutely NO SENSE! This is a major and poorly explained plot hole!

Anyway Hiccup and Astrid escape on Toothless and head back home. Astrid says they need to tell someone but Hiccup says they can't because they'll kill Toothless. Astrid agrees, punches him for kidnapping her, and then kisses him on the cheek for everything else. Yep, she ends up becoming an unnecessary and pointless Cinta interest but we'll get to that later.

The following morning Hiccup's dad makes a big speech about how he used to be embarrassed of Hiccup and is glad that he's different now. OH MY GOSH! THIS MOVIE IS REALLY MEAN SPIRITED! I mean he actually gives a speech about how ashamed he was of his own son? This guy is so unlikable that when I first saw it I hoped a dragon would eat him because he's just HORRIBLE! I don't freaking care if he's a viking, this is just too despicable, especially for a kids movie! BUT I FREAKING DIGRESS!

Anyway Hiccup is getting ready for what he was about to do and gets some minor from Astrid. The dragon then comes out, Hiccup puts down his weapons, tells everyone that the Naga aren't what they think they are, he tries to tunjuk them and it works, until Hiccup's dad ruins everything sejak shouting and banging a dinding like the macho moron he is, and the dragon goes CRAZY! Astrid tries to help but it doesn't work that much, Hiccup's dad tries to save them, Toothless hears that Hiccup is in trouble, and saves him. But do the vikings think that Hiccup being saved sejak Toothless means they can trust him? No, they clearly see that he saves Hiccup and decide they need to tie him up. Yeah, banging your head against a dinding really made these vikings total genius' that make great decisions! NOT!

Hiccup's dad drags Hiccup into a room to yell at him about his lies and being Friends with a dragon. He says that Naga have killed hundreds of them and Hiccup balas that they've killed thousands of the dragon's kind. He accidentally tells how he found the dragon's nest and that only a dragon can find it so his dad decides that they'll take Toothless and force him to lead them to the nest. Hiccup tries to warn him about the leader of the Naga and tries to force the idiot to listen but he doesn't. His father tells him that he's not a viking and that he's not his son.

WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? THIS MOVIE ACTUALLY WENT THERE? BLUNTLY TELLING HIS SON THAT HE'S NOT HIS SON ANYMORE? WHAT THE HECK? They've already crossed the ling of being too mean spirited several times in this movie but this is so far past the line that anda can't even see it! I know that he's a viking and this was appropriate behavior for a viking and a parent during this time but honestly I don't care! Just because this happened back then doesn't mean he's a likable character atau worthy of redemption. It's way too mean spirited, especially for an animated movie! Sure he feels bad about right after he says it but it's too despicable and mean spirited to take pity on him.

I mean when I look at King Triton from The Little Mermaid and Fa Zu from Mulan, I see closed-minded parents that are actually developed and I can pity. Triton doesn't listen, yells at Ariel, and even goes too far but he soon regrets it and soalan if he was too hard on her. Fa Zu tells Mulan that she dishonors him, lacks confidence in her, and tells her to remember her place but he also tries to cheer Mulan up with the blossom scene, which works. Both of them had daughters that were different from everyone else and dared to be different. They're both pushed sejak their father's and run away from home, though for different reasons. But as soon as their child is gone they feel horrible, blame themselves, wished they had listened and tried to understand, and would give anything to have them back so they could fix everything. They see that their daughters are greater than they knew, Mulan defeated the entire Hun army and the unstoppable Shan-Yu and Ariel showed that the world her people thought were dangerous aren't all bad. These two fathers are well-developed, realistic, and sympathetic. Fa Zu even says that the greatest gift an honor was having Mulan for a daughter and ignoring the gifts that were meant to bring the family honor. Triton even gives Ariel what she's always dreamed up, which involved letting her got and the two finally make amends.

This is why I think the whole Hiccup running away and studying dragons, maybe even thinking about never going back, would help with the character development of his father. He would see that the way he treated his son was wrong and that he didn't appreciate him until he was gone, didn't know if he was save, atau if he would ever see him again. This guy is completely undeveloped and isn't likable AT ALL! If anyone likes him I have to say they have serious problems and must be fine with abuse, whether physical atau verbal. BUT I DIGRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The vikings take off with Toothless to find the nest and Hiccup just watches from a distance. Astrid shows up and asks him why he didn't kill the dragon when he had the chance and keeps asking until he says that he "wouldn't" kill a dragon. This makes for some good character development for Hiccup because he's finally accepting himself for who he is instead of what others wanted him to be.

This also is Astrid's only useful to the story moment because the rest of the time she's either pointless atau a total b*tch. The whole change of character wasn't really that developed and kind of came out of no where. When she became just the pointless Cinta interest she really just became bland and boring, though that's better than being annoying. Her only real purpose is just to be Hiccup's Cinta interest.

I feel like I really need to compare her to two other girls, Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender and Hermione from Harry Potter. One could say that their only purpose was to have a girl in the group and Katara was also just supposed to be Aang's Cinta interest but they're both much lebih than that. They're both the glue that holds their groups together. When everything seems hopeless they're the ones that tell everyone that they need to stop moping and get to work so that they can accomplish their goal. I'm surprised that the main character of Harry Potter is Hermione, she's the one who's the most powerful and without her Harry and Ron would be dead. Harry didn't even stop Voldemort from killing him, it was his mother so he's done nothing worth of being considered their Jesus. Hermione is the one who is lebih capable in both brains and powers. Katara shows that she's lebih than just a Cinta interest atau the girl of the group because she does all she can to bring hope to not only her group but to other around her and she accomplishes it because of what a strong and incredible person she is.

These are two characters that could easily be done wrong and be like Astrid, someone who is pointless and is only there to be the Cinta interest atau the main girl of the story. They have qualities that tunjuk real strength and make them their own characters with distinct personalities that brings a lot to their stories. Astrid on the other hand, besides that one scene she contributes nothing. That scene could have been done without her anyway because the main character realizing something like this sejak themselves isn't anything new. But I digress.

Anyway Hiccup decides to gather the other teenagers and teach them how to ride dragons. They vikings find the dragon's nest and discover the huge dragon that Hiccup tried to warn them about but were too stupid to listen to.

Now I'm going to bring up two problems with the movie I have that sort of tie to each other. The designs of the characters and the dragons, man do they suck! The evil dragon is the only dragon in the entire movie that looks like a dragon, just give it a long neck and it would be perfect. As for the other dragons, they don't look like Naga AT ALL! They look like some kind of over grown and glorified lizards. I'm not even sure how to describe these things but Naga isn't what I'd call them. It's like they're not taking their audience seriously sejak having the Naga look like that instead of real dragons. I saw the cover of the book of How To Train Your Dragon and it looks NOTHING like the Naga in this movie because it looks like an actual dragon. These designs are horrible and aren't even worthy of Saturday Morning cartoons. In fact at the end of this artikel I'm going to tunjuk anda what Naga ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE!

As for the humans, they suffer the same problem the Naga suffer, they don't look like real people. Their designs are silly and too cartoony, which is something I find insulting in an animated movie. In an animated TV tunjuk it's fine, though they need to be careful with how silly and cartoony they are like Adventure Time, one of it's many problems. What I Cinta about the Dreamworks Filem I actually think are good is that the characters look like real people. I mean look at The Prince of Egypt, Road To El Dorado, Sinbad: Legend of The Seven Seas, Spirit, the Shrek Filem (they even have a dragon that actually LOOKS LIKE A DRAGON), Rise of The Guardians, etc. It's true that this isn't true for all Dreamworks Filem but a good chunk of them are. I am able to take the movie lebih seriously because of how the characters look like real people because it means that the film makers are actually taking their audience seriously and don't think of us as just people who want a silly little cartoon. The Shrek Filem always amazing me with how realistic the characters looked, especially the human characters. Rise of The Guardians also makes me believe that, even though he's not real, that if there was a total kicka** Easter Bunny that's what he would look like. The Tooth-Fairy and her workers, not so much but they don't bother me as much. Walt Disney himself wanted his characters in Filem realistic to break that whole cartoony look most Kartun had. This movie just makes it seem like it's only for kids and not for everyone. I mean Up has cartoony and silly designs but it made up for it with amazing emotion, great character development, and believable relationships. This movie, while Hiccup is pretty well-developed and his relationship with Toothless is great, everything else isn't so it's a lacking movie with silly looking characters, which does not work.

Anyway they try to fight the huge dragon but it doesn't work, Hiccup and his Friends come to help, Hiccup tries to save Toothless, his dad saves him instead because it's the Filem pathetic attempt to make him developed but it's not believable, Hiccup rides on Toothless, and the climax battle begins. I have to say that the climax battle is amazing! It's suspenseful, has great action, and is just incredible. But there is the whole Astrid being useless, the macho guy being annoying, and the twins continuing to fight! GOOD GOSH, PHIL AND LIL FROM RUGRATS DIDN'T FIGHT THIS MUCH! But keseluruhan it was great. But I do think that it's silly that the Naga are apparently not api, kebakaran proof on the inside. Shouldn't that mean they'd explode every time they breath fire? But with that aside the scene where it looks like Hiccup is about to die is suspenseful and is a touching relationship with him and Toothless.

Anyway there's a moment everyone thinks Hiccup is dead, there's another pathetic attempt to make Hiccup's dad look developed that fails because of the rest of the movie, it turns out Hiccup is alive, he loses his leg and gets a new medal one, the Naga become pets, Astrid punches and then kisses Hiccup, the movie ends with a narration from Hiccup's irritating voice, and we finally get the tajuk opening that apparently they decided to save for the end.

Overall Thoughts:
keseluruhan it's not a bad movie but it's not good at all and it HIGHLY overrated. I'm surprised that it became so popular, I thought it would just be considered forgettable and mediocre. When I saw the trailers for this movie I knew exactly what I was going to get and it was what I got. The only big surprise was the whole evil dragon thing but that wasn't enough to save it. It's got some decent animation, a hati, tengah-tengah warming relationship between Hiccup and Toothless, and some great action. But it's also cliche, predictable, doesn't bring anything new to the table, is a complete missed opportunity, only has two likable characters (Hiccup and Toothless) who aren't even that interesting, the rest of the characters are annoying atau bland, the designs are a joke, a couple with no chemistry atau development, a female character that is only supposed to be the Cinta interest, has plot holes, a lot of problems, poor humor, no character development for anyone besides the main character, and is completely forgettable.

Hiccup, who I do like, is also pretty annoying. I mean at the beginning he tries to act all tough and threatening, which doesn't work. I mean it worked for Scamp from Lady and The Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure because in human years he'd be 12 and it's kind of cute for a little kid to act that way. Hiccup is a teenager and teenagers Berlakon this way is just annoying. Plus he's not really unique atau all that interesting. He's your typical dork that makes something of himself who's a total bore. I mean there is apparently this big four thing that's about Hiccup, Rapunzel, Merida, and Jack Frost and in my opinion he's the least interesting. They are all developed but what makes him fall flat is because the others were adventurous, fun, quirky, and lebih interesting as well as lebih developed. I like him but there's really not a whole lot to him, I'm hoping he'll be lebih interesting in the sequel, where he actually looks like a real person, unlike all the other characters in the movie. If only they'd get rid of his annoying voice! It's part of why I'm not crazy about him because her voice, along with many other things are the film makers practically hitting us over the head with it that he's an awkward dork. Not exactly subtle about it, hardly anything in this movie is subtle anyway.

A Bug's Life is also cliche and predictable with a main character that's the dork who makes something of himself. But that worked because with the exception of the villains, the circus guy, and the flies, the characters were all likable. The main character isn't over the bahagian, atas with the dorkiness and doesn't hit us over the head with it. The Cinta interest, though not that interesting, has a point. She's supposed to be someone who teaches us about struggling with responsibility and is afraid of letting everyone down but that anda can overcome it with a little confidence. The couple wasn't that developed but it was cute and the chemistry, while not strong, is there. The humor is great, I mean the circus bugs and the Ant Queen always crack me up. It's not Disney atau Pixar's strongest Filem but it's still a good movie. It's cliche and predictable like How To Train Your Dragon but it has a lot of other qualities that How To Train Your Dragon lacks.

It's a mediocre film in my opinion but if anda like it and can ignore all of it's MANY problems good for you. It's just not my thing and I'm hoping the sequel will be better because it actually looks great. Not here are some pictures of what Naga actually look like.