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How to Train Your Dragon
How to Train Your Dragon

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Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler
Mar 26, 2010
PG, 1 hr. 38 min.

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Movie Info

Cast: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Craig Ferguson, Kristen Wiig, T.J. Miller
Director: Peter Hastings, Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Rated: PG
Running Time: 1 hr. 38 min.
Genre: Animation, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Theater Release: Mar 26, 2010
DVD Release: Oct 15, 2010
Synopsis: The son of a Viking chief must capture a dragon in order to mark his passage into manhood and prove his worthiness to the tribe in directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois' adaptation of Cressida Cowell's popular children's book. Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse provide voices for the DreamWorks Animation production. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Critic Reviews

  • Christine Champ, Film.com
    It's a Harry Potter-meets-Avatar adventure that should delight most children and adults.
  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews
    Technically proficient and featuring a witty, intelligent, surprisingly insightful script, How to Train Your Dragon comes close to the level of Pixar's recent output while easily exceeding the juvenilia Dreamworks has released in the last nine years.
  • Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail
    This dog can hunt. On the ground. Way-way up in the air. Swimming through clouds breathing fire. Imagine Old Yeller on a hundred pep pills.
  • Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
    How to Train Your Dragon uses its whiz-bang technology to amplify feelings as well as dimension and scale. The big optical wow is only the half of it.
  • Tom Long, Detroit News
    The 3-D throughout How to Train Your Dragon is perhaps the best match with animation yet -- exhilarating when it's supposed to be, yet integrated into the film rather than seemingly pasted on.
  • Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
    One of the pleasures in this wise, emotionally bold PG ride is there's nary a wink, nudge or nod to popular culture.
  • A.O. Scott, New York Times
    Tenderness, beauty and exhilaration are the movie's great strengths.
  • Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News
    The film truly starts to soar when Hiccup takes his first ride on Toothless.
  • Bob Mondello, NPR
    What gives [this] story emotional heft has to do with a different kind of dimension: a depth of feeling surrounding the Black Stallion-style bonding of boy and beast.
  • Mike Clark, Washington Post
    At a time when Hollywood seems to be releasing everything this side of Dead Sea Scrolls documentaries in 3-D, How to Train Your Dragon is a briskly paced computer-animated entertainment that uses the format to maximum effect, the way Avatar does.
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