Plot
Hiccup is a young boy in a Viking village which is continually ravaged by dragons. While dragon hunting is what all Vikings aspire to do, Hiccup isn't a fighter and creates disaster wherever he treads. One day he finds a wounded dragon and discovers that dragons are simply misunderstood creatures. He must convince his people that dragons aren't aggressive and save the village.
A stereotypical plot, but it works well as a children's film.
Trivia
Some of the crew for Lilo and Stitch worked on this film. The underlying story and art design are similar.
Characters
Each character has their own childish charm. The humans are likeable and each have their own fun personality. The dragons are also very interesting in a 'cute pet' sort of way, but all each have their own personality. Toothless, the black dragon, seems in many cases to act more like a dog than any other animal, and is very reminiscent of Stitch. I found it strange, however, that the Vikings had Scottish accents - shouldn't they be Nordic?
Visuals and Cinematography
The art style is fantastic and all characters have large eyes to better show off emotion. Animation is amazingly fluid and there are no glaring errors.
Cinematography is also fantastic and resembles films like Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings with sweeping landscape shots and plenty of environmental eye candy. In some scenes, the sheer number or size of dragons will blow you away.
3D Effects
The 3D effects weren't particularly noticable, except in the climax.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack is the usual orchestral fare, but really has some emotion put into it. A beautifully moving soundtrack.
Overall
A good film.
7/10
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