So what do you do on a overcast Sunday afternoon when there’s no water in your room? I don’t know about you, but I went and watched “How to Train Your Dragon“. I went with high expectations, having read all the reviews, but the movie still exceeded my expectations.
The storyline for the movie is your run of the mill one, a misfit hero who saves your day, with a little bit of romance thrown in. But the script is crisp and the editing is squeaky clean. There are a lot of scenes that capture your attention, the awkward conversations between the hunk of a viking king, Stoick (voiced by Gerard Butler) and his son – our hero, Hiccup; the scenes of dragon training; and almost all of the flight scenes, especially the one showing the first time Hiccup navigates a set of dangerous rocks in the sea while flying Toothless, his pet dragon.
The voice actors have done a good job and the whole movie is ripe with witty dialogues and well directed scenes. But the best reason to watch the movie – the beautiful dragons, especially Toothless, our hero’s mysterious, intelligent pet. The scenes with the dragon have been well thought out, giving a lot of depth to their characters. Not since Dragon Heart have I seen a movie giving so much importance to dragons.
All in all, it was really really fun to watch this one, even though I went alone. After Kung Fu Panda this is the next Dreamworks movie that I absolutely loved (although I thought that the former was a bit short). I do have to say that I watched the movie in 2D, I hope to catch it in 3D sometime as I think some of the scenes will be more fun in 3D. Well, I hope you too catch the movie in a theater sometime, it’s paisa wasool. 
