How to train your dragon

IT'S THE BEST FUCKING MOVIE I WATCHED IN 2010!

Ok. Now I can talk about it. 

SPOILER ALERT

In a Vicking village called Berk lives a teenager called Hiccup. He's extremely awkward, he can't do anything right and nobody trusts him, in actual terms he's a nerd, but unlike another teenager that claims to be awkward and that we know very well, he's not an emo and it's decided to be a Vicking and make his father and his people proud. He's weak and skinny and can't hold an axe, or hammer, or sword so he builds a machine to try to kill a dragon (because that's what Vickings like to do) and during an attack he hits the most powerful dragon they know, no one has ever seen it: The Night Fury but no one believes in him.

In the next day he goes after this dragon, that must have fell somewhere around the island and when he gets there the dragon trapped and totally vulnerable, it's his oportunity to kill a dragon and finally be a Vicking  but he can't do it. He releases the Night Fury and go home. After the last dragon attack in the village Hiccup's father and leader of the village, Stoik decides to go on a quest to find the dragons nest once again and tells Hiccup to start his training on killing dragons, but he now knows that's not what he wants to do. He tries to speak to his father but he can't (his father isn't much into listening), the kid has no choice but to start his training, but everyday he goes to the hidden place where the hurt Night Fury is and he starts to be friends with the dragon. He gets to know more about dragons and realizes that "everything they knew about them is wrong". 

You see, the plot isn't that original, it's the same old story about the old and the new wrestling and their lack of understanding. It's the same old story about "the other" and about breaking down predjudices and how dangerous actions, no matter how noble they are can result in permanent losses. It's not original, but somehow the writer made it sound beautiful and meaningful. If you want to watch a movie that talks about predjudices against "the other" and about a person that got into another culture and starts to understand it, watch this, not Avatar. 

This is Dreamworks masterpiece. I'm not that fan of the Shrek movies (I liked the 1st, that's all) and I definetely hate Madagascar but since Kung Fu Panda I believe that Dreamworks is starting to get near Pixar. And I do believe that this is going to be quite a competition in 2011's best animated movie Oscar.

Things I really liked

The training and the dragon classification totally sounds like an RPG game. And that was funny because I was watching the movie with a bunch of nerds that could be seen in The Big Bang Theory and that are RPG players (I am a RPG player myself). 

The soundtrack by John Powell (P.S. I love you and Ice Age 1,2 and 3) is the most beautiful I have listened in years. This soundtrack does more that what ordinary soundtracks do. It transports you to that world (and I can feel it just by listening to it, like I'm doing right now) it raises the emotions, show you the feelings of the character.

The graphics are stunning, really beautiful. I watched it in 3D, of course it makes things more beautiful. But the movie is beautiful anyway.

The only thing I regret is that I had to watch it dubbed, so I couldn't listen to Gerard Butler's voice, which I like very much. lol

Now, listen to my fave song of the soundtrack.