A Soaring Live Action Adventure: How to Train Your Dragon
It is a cinematographic animation portraying the whole adventure of a young Viking, a boy called Hiccup who at heart aims to become a dragon slay on the sea island that is being attacked by the dragons. The nature of life changes dramatically in one day and based on his interaction with a dragon he learns a different perspective of life and the need for a change of path for an adventurous one.
Initially and intrinsically the friendship motif of the story with the courage and mutual understanding theme is present throughout. It explains that, being a combination of the comedy and adventure along with emotional scenes, the subject of the films reflect a multilayered picture that could be interesting for viewers of different age.
Mason Thames displays the boy’s youthfulness and development as Hiccup very well. Nico Parker does well and enhances her character as Astrid to make their relationship look interesting. Stoick played by Gerard Butler is serious yet endearing; Julian Dennison and Gabriel Howell do not disappoint in the feature.
The score is magical and pulses with energy at exciting scenes, with beautiful orchestral arrangements to give the movie a heart and soul.
It concerns the stunning visuals of the locations shooting, the dragon flight scenes staging, and delivers a cinematic visual motion picture.
The set designs appear to be well made as they present accurate portrayal of the Viking village as well as the dragon homes making it easier for the audience to follow the storyline in the film.
refine shows, which are used to make dragons come alive through CGI integration with practical displays of the environment that has dragons as a natural occurrence.
On the whole, the scenes are successful in helping to keep the narrative going but at the same time they occasionally seem to get out of hand, thereby causing some interruption in the rhythm and pace of the movie. However, it still tries to provide a connected experience in the viewers’ sightline.
Through its essentially unbroken string of events, the pacing of the movie works well, alternating between chunky action and chunks of character progress, though there are instances where the events are diluted by filler that should have been more tightly trimmed to deliver a leaner narrative.
‘Dialogues are very planned with good humor and sensibility which helps to build character and core issues of the show.’
However, at the same time, one gets an indescribably sensation that problems of the principles set by its animated analog are sometimes felt in this picture. Some features leant themselves to cliché and the experiment might have been taken to a greater extreme from the original story.
Live action of how to train your dragon series, while I watched really felt like it brought some little memories that I had back and was new at the same time. If you are a fan of the first movie then you’ll love it but for those who want more than just an updated version then you shall not be disappointed as it brings joyous journey. In this case, it may not boast of the same revolutionary effect that the first one had but it is nonetheless, a worthy contribution to the story line.
