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A Dragon

I finally got to see How to Train Your Dragon. I never had wanted to see it 'till it was a nomination for best animated, but I had heard good things.

Okay, so you know how wit animated movies start you up with a little montage of the setting? Then they go and introduce you to the main character/show you his/her flaws? Well chi-ching, this one was no different.

I was really intrigued by the movie not because of an original story line, but because it was about dragons. I mean, they're just so cool! I feel like the writers also spent a lot of time on the dragons (ha, cause that's what the movie's about!), like their specific features, or how they can only breathe so much fire. The problem was with the whole film is that, again, trailers gave it away. It' one of those movies that need a 10 second promo trailer and that's it.

Like I said, I was still entertained the whole time, but that's because I love dogs, which apparently share a lot of characteristics with dragons. The way the dragons moved, looked around, and even sat and stared at different characters, were all very much like dogs.

Another thing the movie did well was character development. Or at least for the first half, the characters completely change mid-way through the movie. I'll admit, if they didn't, the movie would be extremely long, but the way the writers made the change disrupted what they had introduced me to and changed what I was watching. It wasn't "How to Train Your Dragon", it was "What to do with your pet in a life threatening situation"