How To Train Your Dragon (Review Thread)

[GreenScar]

Check out the teaser trailer by clicking the pic

Dreamworks Animation has released the first teaser trailer for Chris Sander’s How to Train Your Dragon. It doesn’t show much, but you get a first glimpse at the dragons in motion, embedded after the jump. As always, leave your thoughts in the comments below.

From the studio that brought you “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda” comes “How To Train Your Dragon” — an adventure comedy set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, based on the book by Cressida Cowell. The story centers around a Viking teenager, who lives on the island of Berk, where fighting dragons is a way of life. Initiation is coming, and this is his one chance to prove his worthiness to his tribe and father. But when he encounters, and ultimately befriends, an injured dragon, his world is turned upside down.

How to Train Your Dragon hits theaters in March 26th 2010.

[Foggy]

click pic to see it.

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Dreamworks Animation has released the first teaser trailer for Chris Sander’s How to Train Your Dragon. It doesn’t show much, but you get a first glimpse at the dragons in motion, embedded after the jump. As always, leave your thoughts in the comments below.

[Sweetmeats]

I got to see a rough cut of this today in 3D. It was about 70% finished but it was unbelievable. This will be a helluva Blu-ray when it's released. I encourage everyone to see it in 3D.

[detective392]

Man you are lucky I can't wait for March 26th this is one of my top 2010 movies so far. While I do like dreamworks movies I have never been so pumped and excited for a release as I have for this one.

[Sweetmeats]

I've enjoyed most of the Dreamworks Animated movies but this one feels like a real step up. The modern sort of comedy that marred an otherwise excellent Kung Fu Panda is not here. Instead you have a serious, funny unbelievable animated movie. The action is incredible as is the flight scenes. The only problem was the majority of the unfinished scenes were in the ending so it was hard to get and idea of how cool this will ultimately look. You had animation at various stages from pencils to characters whose lips wouldn't move when they spoke. But what they did show of the ending in completed form will blow every one away.

Side note, Jeffrey Katzenberger was there to watch it as well.

[GreenScar]

The new trailer is stunning;

Click the pic to check it out

DreamWorks has released a new trailer for How to Train Your Dragon and simply put… it’s stunning. While their animated movies are often hit or miss, when they’re hit sometimes something special happens. Kung Fu Panda rates as one of my favorite animated movies of all time and the more I see if How to Train You Dragon the more it looks like another tale in the mold of Panda than in the now tired mold of Shrek.

This latest trailer is packed with action. Dazzling flying sequences, skyscraper-sized monsters, boiling fireballs, catapults, axes, and angry Vikings await.

[GreenScar]

So is anyone planning on seeing this?

I'm interested to see how Craig Ferguson does voicing one of the characters

[P@t_Mtl]

I wasn't sure I was going to see it, it's Dreamworks and I usualy do not enjoy their movie much. Still this one seem to have a better feel to it then the others

[Foggy]

I think they're after a pixar rip, by taking it seriously

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by GreenScar

So is anyone planning on seeing this?

I'm interested to see how Craig Ferguson does voicing one of the characters

I am looking forward to it.

Flight scenes look prettier than Avatar.

[SquidPuppet]

Who is seeing this at the theater? I will be there Friday!

Its a cartoon week

TS1 and TS2 and Mr. Fox and then this on Friday.

My inner child is getting a lot of love this week.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Who is seeing this at the theater? I will be there Friday!

Its a cartoon week

TS1 and TS2 and Mr. Fox and then this on Friday.

My inner child is getting a lot of love this week.

my inner child gets some Kick-Ass, but I have to wait till next wendsday to see this.

BTW, Fantastic Mr.Fox is Fantastic I love it

[TokyoLee]

Originally Posted by GreenScar

So is anyone planning on seeing this?

I'm interested to see how Craig Ferguson does voicing one of the characters

Im planning on seeing this friday morning first show 6$ in 3D 9$
Ill go with my girlfriend and see it in 3D and come home and watch
TS1 and TS2

[Hep]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Who is seeing this at the theater? I will be there Friday!

Its a cartoon week

TS1 and TS2 and Mr. Fox and then this on Friday.

My inner child is getting a lot of love this week.

I'll see ya there Squid! It's a great week to be a kid .

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by Hep

I'll see ya there Squid! It's a great week to be a kid .

Its great to be young!

[Show spoiler]Again

[GreenScar]

Probably will see this Friday as well. Look's pretty good.

[Zero_Cool]

I am so ready for this movie.

[Batman1980]

[Show spoiler] Some movies seem born to inspire video games. All they lack is controllers and a scoring system. "How to Train Your Dragon" plays more like a game born to inspire a movie. It devotes a great deal of time to aerial battles between tamed dragons and evil ones, and not much to character or story development. But it's bright, good-looking and has high energy. Kids above the easily scared age will probably like the movie the younger they are.

This is another action animation with an improbable young hero, based on a series of popular children's books. Remember when the heroes in this genre were teenagers? Now it's usually some kid who is 10 at the most, revealing himself as stronger, wiser and braver than older people, and a quick learner when it comes to discovering or mastering a new form of warfare. We are born knowing how to command dragons and spaceships and down we forget as up we grow.

Our hero is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (the voice of Jay Baruchel), a young Viking who lives in Berk, a mountainside village surrounded by the crags and aeries where hostile dragons live. Hiccup tells us that his village is very old, but all of the houses are new. An alarming omen. Led by his father Stoick (Gerard Butler) and the dragon master Cobber (Craig Ferguson), the villagers have been in combat with the dragons since time immemorial. It would seem to be an unequal struggle; the dragons are enormous and breathe fire, and the Vikings, while muscular, have only clubs, swords and spears. They may however be smarter than the dragons, although you wouldn't know that just by listening to them.

Butler seems to be channeling his character from "300," beefed up by many a hearty Viking feast. He joins Ferguson and others in speaking English with a muscular Scottish accent, since as we all know that English was widely used among the Vikings. In appearance, the Vikings seem victims of a testosterone outbreak causing enormous sprouty growths of hair. Even the hair from their nostrils might knit up into a nice little sock. Oh, how I tried not to, but as I watched these brawlers saddled up on great flying lizards, I kept thinking, "Asterix meets Avatar."

The plot: Young Hiccup is ordered to stay inside during a dragon attack. But the plucky lad seizes a cannon, blasts away at the enemy and apparently wings one. Venturing into the forest to track his prey, he finds a wounded little dragon about his age, already chained up. He releases it, they bond, and he discovers that dragons can be perfectly nice. With his new friend Toothless, he returns to the village, and an alliance is formed with good dragons against the bad dragons, who are snarly holdouts and grotesquely ugly.

One evil beast is covered all over with giant warlike knobs, and has six eyes, three on either side, like a classic Buick. In one scene, a Viking hammers on an eyeball with his club. Not very appetizing. The battle ends as all battles must, with the bad guys routed and the youngest hero saving the day. The aerial battle scenes are storyboarded like a World War I dogfight, with swoops, climbs and narrowly missed collisions with craggy peaks and other dragons. For my taste, these went on way too long, but then I must teach myself that I do not have a 6-year-old's taste.

Source - Chicago Sun News Blog

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by Wolverine1980

Source - Chicago Sun News Blog

Doing pretty well over at Rotten Tomatoes with 93% (29 reviews).

A couple say "Its better than Avatar"

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Doing pretty well over at Rotten Tomatoes with 93% (29 reviews).

A couple say "Its better than Avatar"

95% with 40 reviews.