Monday 6 April 2015

Recommendation Mondays (Backlog): Week 4 - How To Train Your Dragon (2010)

How to Train Your Dragon (or httyd cause, again, lazy af over here) is a 2010 DreamWorks animated movie, based on the book of the same name by Cressida Cowell (they have little to nothing in common except names, if I'm honest). It centers around the troubles of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, a gawky fifteen year old who isn't really much of a credit to his Viking heritage.

Having been born and raised on the island of Berk, where his father is chief, Hiccup has been taught to hate, fear and dream of killing the island's typical pests: dragons. Seen as he's kind scrawny, he attempts to do so with contraptions and invention which... don't exactly work. Until, one night, one does.

Hiccup just so happens to have shot down a Night Fury, the most feared and ferocious dragon of all, the "unholy offspring of lightning and Death itself". Nobody believes him and so he goes out into the woods alone to search for it. And, yet, he cannot bring himself to kill it. From then on, the titular training begins, with both Hiccup and his new "buddy" Toothless learning more from each other every day.

Can Hiccup figure out the nature of dragons and maybe even stop Berk's dragon problems?

Find out now by simply clicking this link! (Man do I feel like a clickbait ad)

Not only is httyd a suuuuper cute tale of a boy and his dragon, the voice actors include the hilariously awkward Jay Baruchel as Hiccup and Gerard Butler doing a pretty good job as his father, the score is amazing (shoutout to my boy John Powell!) and the animation is phenomenal (as is the sequel). Here's the soundtrack:


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