Voices By: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrara, Jonah Hill, Gerard Butler
Director: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders (Lilo &Stitch)
Running Time: 1 hr 32 min
Release Date: March 26, 2010
Budget: $165 million
Criticsf Thumbs Up: 74%
“exciting, fun and sensationally entertaining” Pete Hammond, Boxoffice Magazine
“unremarkable” Ella Taylor, Village Voice
How to Train Your Dragon couldfve been a mediocre kid’s tale with the standard lesson of going against the crowd. Instead, breathtaking special effects, sharp dialogue, and endearing characters – including the dragon itself – make this action adventure fun for adults and kids. Based on Cressida Cowell’s book, Baruchel voices Hiccup, an outcast teenager in a clan of Viking dragon slayers that befriends one of these wild beasts and soon begins to see the world through its eyes. The shots of Hiccup soaring across the skies on his dragon buddy, Toothless, lend themselves wonderfully to 3-D, and the voice work by Baruchel, Butler and Ferrara is also pitch-perfect.
