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2010
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4.5
But theyre smoothly integrated into a visually rich, emotionally gripping, thoroughly irresistible adventure tale.
Av Club
3.5
The swarming dragon attacks may truly frighten the littlest viewers, but the depiction of the pleasures of flight and the conquering of ones fears sho ..
Austin Chronicle
4.5
The 3 D animation is gaspingly good at conveying the freewheeling joys of flight and, more down to the earth, a single tear wobbling down the cheek.
Austin Chronicle
3.0
You could chalk this kids flick up as another manic Saturday matinee time killer if it werent for a singularly impressive element.
Time Out
3.5
DreamWorks Animations second made in 3D feature is a fun if lightweight adventure comedy that flies highest when its putting the studios patented 3D t ..
Screen Daily
4.5
Indeed, with Roger Deakins once again credited as a visual consultant, the movies charms take flight in its imagery, which doesnt miss a chance to swo ..
Screen Daily
3.5
Grab your popcorn.Grab your 3D glares and go fall in love with Toothless, the dangerous dragon who ends up as one of the most adorable animated creatu ..
ETimes (TOI)
4.5
It doesnt have the strong pacing, the right balance among the relationships, or a strong, central conflict.
Collider
4.1
But even if thats the films real raison detremuch of the screentime is given to aerial training, aerial romance, aerial battlesthe result is fun and t ..
Paste Magazine
3.8
Kids above the easily scared age will probably like the movie the younger they are.
Rogerebert
3.0
DreamWorks Animations How to Train Your Dragon is a sweet film that, despite a valiant effort, never truly rises to the occasion.
IGN
4.0
From the makers of Shrek , Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda tends to be a virtual guarantee of slick, smirking entertainment wise cracking creatures embar ..
Telegraph
1.5
Its a bittersweet ribbon to top off an iconic franchise that leaves us smiling with tears in our eyes.
The Young Folks
4.5
But who doesnt like adventure.How to Train You Dragon soars to epic heights.
Cinema Blend
3.5
Though the dragons are cool in their various forms and the battle scenes are epic and exciting, watching two former foes become friends is what really ..
Ny Daily News
4.3
It respects its audience enough without sticking to cheap shots and bad jokes.
JoBlo
4.5
Imagine my surprise when I found it to be a funny, heartfelt and action packed movie for kids.
Screen Rant
3.8
The film is living, fire breathing proof that soaring spectacle works better than even the larkiest satire.Funny doesnt need 3 D.
The Globe And Mail
3.8
Cameron lite.But instead of Avatars strong eco message, How to Train Your Dragons is that communication and empathy work better than axes and swords, ..
Philly
3.5
The movie itself is a pleasant time killer with a stock story and characters, but its dragon is a triumph of conception and design part beast and part ..
Philly
4.5
Equally uplifting is the father son reconciliation which is handled with just the right emotional heft.
Spirituality And Practice
3.0
Based on a childrens novel by Cressida Cowell and directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, How to Train Your Dragon struggles to rise to the challe ..
Village Voice
3.0
It has some fun character designs, a good message, and some fairly typical jokes, and then last of all is the characters and the story.
Combust Ible Celluloid
4.0
This witty and satisfying CGI spectacular from DreamWorks manages to seem archetypal whereas the soulless, humorless Avatar was merely formulaic.
Chicago Reader
3.8
Directors Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders elect an animation style that edges closer to cartoon than realism, although the backgrounds of Berk and its ..
Mark Reviews Movies
4.4
Its a thrilling action adventure saga with exhilarating 3 D animation, a clever comedy with witty dialogue, a coming of age tale with surprising depth ..
Usa Today
4.0
The colours burst out of the screen like fireworks and the opening dragon attack sequence is genuinely exhilarating.This is a real triumph for Dreamwo ..
The Times
4.5
If this was a Pixar film it would be a favorite for an Academy Award for best animated feature.
Lariat
4.2
Perhaps this has all just been a big misunderstanding.Oh, its warm and fuzzy all right, but it sure is exciting first, almost epic.
Eric Ds Nider
4.0
The 3 D visuals are cant miss stuff, but the story is an enjoyable one full of good humor that should please parents and kids alike.
News Review
4.0
The story (from Cressida Cowells book) is essentially a variation on the old tale of Androcles and the lion, with a wiseacre twist well suited to prec ..
News Review
4.0
When he finds the injured dragon, he realizes he does not have it in him to kill.
Screen It
3.0
Swooping visuals and knockabout comedy blend in a family entertainment that should be the Easter weekend treat.
Independent
3.8
But writer directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois (Lilo & Stitch) make funny, touching, sublime entertainment out of it.
Rolling Stone
4.0
While maintaining a superbly cartoonish design, the animators out do themselves with textures and 3D rendering that look more like Avatar than Pixar.
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
The Nature of Imitation is the sound of Dorian Concept systematically deconstructing various genres, stripping them back to the bones underneath and t ..
Pop Matters
4.0
Beautifully animated and superbly written, this is a hugely entertaining, frequently funny and emotionally engaging adventure with thrilling action se ..
View London
3.8
A geeky warrior in training befriends a dragon and flips conventional wisdom on its head in the charming animated movie How to Train Your Dragon.
Cs Monitor
3.5
Beautifully animated CGI adventure for youngsters has dragons and Vikings and characters with names like Snotlout. A decent little coming of age tale ..
Film Journal
3.5
Its charming, funny and a lot like Avatar, though less solemn and an hour shorter.
The Guardian
3.8
Parents of preschoolers be warned: The Hiccup and Goliath finale is surprisingly intense.
Boston
3.0
Viking boy Hiccup and dragon Toothless form a beautiful friendship in the film adaptation of Cressida Cowells books.
Smh
4.5
Its brightly colored, beautifully directed, exciting, entertaining and charmingwith little hint of postmodern smugness.
Mountain X
4.0
Digital fireworks notwithstanding, in a story about learning to trust, the filmmakers have sensibly decided to trust their narrative; fans of Carroll ..
Npr
4.4
What we have here is an exhilarating epic that mixes comedic and touching moments with some of the best action sequences ever created with CGI animati ..
Star Tribune
3.0
An enjoyable family movie, with some great flight sequences and theres an interestingly realistic sense of the dangers involved in risking your neck f ..
Guardian
5.0
DeBlois and Sanders deploy humor with an elegant touch, never allowing the story to devolve into simple minded parody while at the same time recognizi ..
Q Network
3.0
But its by far the classiest film of the week.It looks good and has funny jokes.
Daily Mail
4.2
How to Train Your Dragon rouses you in conventional ways, but its also the rare animated film that uses 3 D for its breathtaking spatial and emotional ..
Ew
3.5
The film opts instead for nods to Celtic and Norse mythology to provide the themes for its landscape and root for characters rather than anachronistic ..
Cinema Crazed
3.5
Toothless has the one precious ingredient thats missing from so many of Hollywoods contemporary animated characters: an air of mystery.
Salon
4.0
Toothless combines a feline capriciousness with a doggy delight in life, but flickers with intelligence more akin to a great ape.
Empire
4.5
Susan Grangers review of How to Train Your Dragon (DreamWorks Animation) If youre looking for fanciful family fun, your destination should be this ani ..
Susang Ranger
4.0
How to Train Your Dragon is actually worth the momentary headache that 3 D glasses can cause.
Common Sense Media
4.5
Like that film this one is idiosyncratic without feeling gimmicky, isnt afraid of emotion but never feels gooey, and make sure its humor is smart but ..
Movies
4.5
Why You Should Splurge For Three Dimensions: How to Train Your Dragon is a film that will make family night at the movies worth the price of admission ..
Movies
4.4
The animation here still might not match Pixars extraordinary innovation when it comes to digitally animated humans, but How to Train Your Dragons tol ..
Slant Magazine
4.0
The 3 D animated feature is also sharp, funny and unexpectedly touching.
Express
4.4
Theres a moment or, more specifically, image in The Last Song that pretty much sums up its grand ambitions and how it ends up falling short.
Mr Brown Movies
4.4
Kids may not notice the visual texture consciously, but adults will.
Chicago Tribune
3.8
But the film is full of charm, its characters, particularly its six different types of dragons, so wittily animated they almost seem like theyve come ..
Reeling Reviews
4.5
And the science geek as hero Hiccup basically invents aeronautics centuries before Da Vinci is rare enough that it just about made me want to stand up ..
Flickfilosopher
4.0
Youll be able to tweak and tinker with any of Bungies multiplayer maps you can even invite up to seven other buddies into the editing action.
Total Film
4.4
How to Train Your Dragon can be best categorized as a fantasy adventure.
ReelViews
3.0
Oh how Pixar has spoiled us.After a decade and a half of the studio releasing one classic after another from 1995s Toy Story to last years Up! weve gr ..
Hollywood
4.0
Based on the book by Cressida Cowell, the movie from writer director Dean Dubois is funny, well drawn and imaginatively structured so that adults need ..
Standard
4.0
The film does this particularly well with its distinctive visual style that allows for lots of space and shadows.But it is an especially nice touch in ..
Los Angeles Times
3.1
How to Train Your Dragon will be plenty eye popping and plenty noisy in your local multiplex.
Groucho Reviews
3.5
How To Train Your Dragon is, like Kung Fu Panda, an exemplary, confident, streamlined piece of entertainment...
Hit Fix
4.4
An animated movie with the courage to take itself seriously and entertain you by being genuinely good, as opposed to tricking itself out with pointles ..
Aisle Seat
3.0
It has some exciting moments featuring epic flying sequences and a fantastic dragon battle at the end of the film, and that pet dragon is one of the c ..
7M Pictures
5.0
And younger viewers will adore the colourful, often comical dragons, although they may need a word of reassurance occasionally.
The Star
3.8
Its charming, funny, exceedingly well made and features enough comically thrilling flying lizard mayhem to cause your childs head to lightly explode.
Oregon Live
3.8
In both its tone and its look, this animated fantasy adventure will remind some of Kung Fu Panda, another cartoon feature that was a lot more fun and ..
Deseret News
4.2
But its the core relationship between dork and dragonno sap, just two solid charactersthat makes the film more than your average kid flick.
E Online
4.0
The spectacle never comes at the cost of the emotional return and I admit to shedding a tear in the lead up to the climactic finish all delivered in s ..
Urban Cine File
3.8
While the plot itself offers no surprises, it is solidly constructed; there is a reason these storytelling tropes endure.
Movies Tv Guide
4.0
Hiccup befriends Toothless, an injured Night Fury the rarest dragon of all in DreamWorks Animations How to Train Your Dragon.Yet in How to Train Your ..
The Age
2.5
So if you havent already gone with your elementary school age children, go.Enjoy it.
Maki At The Movies
3.8
With great pacing, plenty of action and just enough humor, it will entertain from start to finish.It does however, fall into some traditional Hollywoo ..
Three Movie Buffs
3.0
The incredible design and visual spectacle of Dragon is its biggest asset; the soaring flight sequences in particular rival the Avatar banshee rides f ..
Digital Spy
2.5
You could say the 3 D animated kidpic How To Train Your Dragon is Avatar for simpletons.But that title is already taken, by Avatar.
New York Post
3.0
The films major achievement, though, is the emotive power of its animation, nowhere better executed than in the figure of the dragon.The huge black mo ..
Abc
4.0
Animated adventure set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, based on the book by Cressida Cowell.
Flicks
3.1
Dreamworks Animation SKG has never met a flash in the pan pop culture reference or modern sarcastic aside it didnt like.
Dustin Put Man
4.4
After previous animated adventures from DreamWorks Animation such as Kung Fu Panda and Monsters vs. Aliens, I wonder: Are kids getting the best action ..
Larsen On Film
3.8
The latest animated feature from Dreamworks (Shrek, Kung Fu Panda) is based on the first book in a celebrated series by Cressida Cowell.Its a conventi ..
Christianity Today
3.5
But it has a strong enough story and animation to keep kids fascinated and even adults occupied.
Hollywood And Fine
4.2
Now stop giving your money to Tim Burtons wheezy imagination and see something with genuine magic.An actual, effective, multi dimensional wonderland.
Brian Or Ndorf
3.8
Its a familiar story of friendship between man and beast, but its also one that never grows old.
Patriot Ledger
4.5
Is it all about finding a good story or is it more about taking risks
Nyc Movie Guru
4.4
The voice cast is uniformly entertaining, with Ferrera the first among equals.
Js Online
4.4
While not quite up to the bar set with Kung Fu Panda, DreamWorks Animation again proves that Pixar no longer stands alone at the top of CG animated st ..
Movie Crypt
4.0
Exhilarating sky high adventure ensues.Codirector writers Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch) have snagged just the right, really fun Vikin ..
Straight
4.3
While theres little doubt kids will absolutely adore and thrill to this adventure, How to Train Your Dragon is a movie that will sneak up on grown ups ..
ComingSoon
3.5
Who needs a plastic toy and plastic meal when you have a genuinely good movie
Sbs
4.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
4.4
This is the do or die scene: Either youll fall hard for Toothless and Hiccups tender bonding, or you wont.Im betting you will.
Chron
4.0
Beautifully crafted and effortlessly entertaining, this is an unexpected triumph.
Scots Man
3.0
But their latest effort, How to Train Your Dragon, is a step in the right direction; theres no mistaking it for Up or Wall E, but its a good natured, ..
Dvd Talk
3.8
How to Train Your Dragon blends the mythic culture awesome of DreamWorks Kung Fu Panda, the geek chic of Sonys Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and t ..
Decent Films
3.5
Kids will love it.It is fast paced fun even though it is somewhat on the average side.
Scifi Movie Page
4.0
I daresay its one of the best sequences in animated cinema history.
Streaming Quickflix
3.0
How to Train Your Dragon has terrific action sequences, compelling 3 D, personality filled character voices, a lively story, credible moral lessons, a ..
Tony Mack
5.0
How To Train Your Dragon however, manages to swoop and soar a fine line between the two; full of dazzling, spectacular wonderment but with enough inte ..
Sky
3.0
The humour is delightful and consistent, yielding laughs from all age groups instead of alternating gags between the adults and the kids.
Winnipeg Free Press
4.4
How to Train Your Dragon tries valiantly to rectify that imbalance with a sensible, entertaining and occasionally thrilling spectacle.
Cinema Sight
4.0
Unlike the Shrek series, there are few star voices and no knowing winks to the grown ups through the usual peppering of adult only gags.
Daily Star
4.0
Wayhomer Review #13: How to Train Your Dragon Episode #13 for How to Train Your Dragon, in which our protagonist is so gabberflasted he forgets to giv ..
Need Coffee
4.4
To be sure, the film gives its 3 D toys a workout and the flying sequences are spectacular.
Illinois Times
3.8
If not for its terrific performances, Chloe likely would be relegated to late night, basic cable or dollar bins at a foreclosing Blockbuster Video.
Hollywood News
4.5
With breathtaking animation (about the best Ive seen in recent years, certainly on par with Up) and a very sweet tale, How to Train Your Dragon is one ..
Week In Rewind
4.4
In the 1950s, movies like Bwana Devil and House of Wax thrilled audiences.
Crazed Fan Boy
4.0
In this dry season of back of the shelf studio castoffs, How to Train Your Dragon is like a breath of fresh air to excite and entertain the kiddies an ..
The Diva Review
4.0
But heres one for the hit pile to rival Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and almost anything Pixar have ever done.
Standard Net Au
4.0
What to do: Totally enjoyable for all ages, How To Train Your Dragon makes a good watch for its captivating visuals and heartfelt story.
Mid Day
5.0
How To Train Your Dragon has invention and emotion in abundance and will delight audiences of all ages with its lush visuals and smart script, based o ..
Liver Pool Echo
4.0
Thankfully, Greg Kinnear manages to take the routine material and to make it fresh and believable.
Kc Active
3.8
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Cine Rina
4.0
How to Train Your Dragon doesnt tread any new ground, at least in terms of the narrative, but the breathtaking visuals, heartwarming themes, spirited ..
Blu Ray Ign
4.0
Spectacular flight sequences, clever comedy and witty dialogue are matched by a story with depth, a big heart and a few surprising turns.
Daily Record
3.5
With real Harry Potter fighting wizards all over the planet, what fun it is to have animated characters take on the big bad dragons that plagued Vikin ..
James Wegg Review
3.0
And it incorporates a color palette with enough warmth and charm to tame a dragons heart.
The Reel Deal
5.0
The 3D animation absolutely dazzles and gives the film a thrilling edge.
The Movie Kit
3.5
Of course, this 3D effort by the writers/directors of Lilo & Stitch, Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, is often visually enticing, yet after viewing Ava ..
Culture Catch
4.5
Its hard not to like How To Train Your Dragon, a fun and sassy family flick up there with Chicken Run and Antz as the best Dreamworks Animation has so ..
Blogs Crikey
5.0
The script is sharp, there are clever comic book graphics, a cool soundtrack and a satisfying ending.
Birmingham Post
4.5
Dragon burns to satisfy a broad audience with a searing blend of rollercoaster action, winning comedy and actual emotion.
Perth Now
4.2
Like James Camerons landmark achievement, this 3 D spectacle from DreamWorks is a thrilling feat of imagination and technical ingenuity whisking you a ..
East Bay Times
3.8
How to Train Your Dragon doesnt have the depth and resonance of a classic, but the pictures modesty is refreshing,and its artistry is awe inspiring (t ..
Miami Herald Type Pad
3.1
Its a cuddly cartoon character comedy that emphasizes heart over one liners, message over laughs.
Trib Live
4.5
Here, the story revolves around the ancient antagonism between Vikings and dragons but the two central characters show as much pluck and earnest likab ..
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