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In the past 4-5 years, DreamWorks Animation have created films that have been just satisfactory, average or crap but How To Train Your Dragon is the film that needed to be made for them to achieve a breakthrough. To be honest, I was expecting it to be like other DreamWorks animated films like Kung Fu Panda, Over The Hedge, Bee Movie and even Monsters Vs. Aliens: a random piece of entertainment that lacks magic and mature humour. How To Train Your Dragon turned out to be a lovely film with the magic that Pixar would use, really good humour, intense and in a lot of ways grown up and a very personal story. The 3D experience of How To Train Your Dragon was like a roller coaster because there was lots of intense action almost all the way through the film. To be honest, I found How To Train Your Dragon as good in 3D as Avatar.
How To Train Your Dragon tells the story of a young Viking teenager called Hiccup who is intending to follow after his father by becoming a dragon slayer. After he catches his first dragon, he begins to realise that he has no desire to kill it so he befriends it like a pet. Hiccup is a main character DreamWorks Animation needed: a colourful, emotional hero with a big heart. His relationship with mysterious dragon Toothless reminded me a lot of Elliott and E.T. in the Steven Spielberg classic. Gerard Butler (pretty much the only well-known actor in the film) provides the voice of Stoick The Vast who is the father of Hiccup. Butler returns to a character who is like a heroic war leader like he was in 300. I noticed that some of the male Vikings had Scottish accents.
Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders have made a film that is suitable for all ages! I think they have created it for teenagers as well which is something that DreamWorks Animation haven't done for quite a while. I will be really really annoyed if How To Train Your Dragon isn't nominated for Best Animated Picture as well as Toy Story 3!
Overall, How To Train Your Dragon is a fantastic animated film! I have high expectations for DreamWorks animated films now (except the rest of the Shrek films). It is definitely DreamWorks Animations' best film since Wallace And Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit and a breakthrough for that studio!
