LordFett
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Been trying to find the packaging. I have also sent an email to Spin Master Toys.
How to Train Your Dragon is awesome!
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Firefoxm31
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McDonalds had Toothless last week as a Happy Meal Toy, got one for my son
it's pretty nice barring the stubby wings
movie is a must have for the dvd list, wife and I agree, heck she said "gotta have it" two minutes into the film..
Will
it's pretty nice barring the stubby wings
movie is a must have for the dvd list, wife and I agree, heck she said "gotta have it" two minutes into the film..
Will
Hiccup does that to every single member of the village. But they end up better off.
As has been pointed out, Astrid's 'do you have a plan' remarks weren't those of a powerless sidekick. She was MANIPULATING Hiccup.
She also paid him back for his abduction of her by, y'know, calling him in public on his abduction of her. ;p
The film's about the hero. Shock horror. Several OTHER characters also have to be rescued, in case you didn't notice. As does Hiccup. In fact Hiccup has to be rescued, three, maybe four times during the course of the film.
I think overall it's pretty fair to the characters. In fact that's one of the things I liked the most about it, just how much it subverts your expectations for many of the characters, while remaining within the boundaries of a formula.
If you wanted to just say "this is very, very formulaic", I'd totally agree. It was the amount of fun they had playing around within that ruleset that made it appealing to me.
darth_myeek
Sr Member
Oh no you dint.
Finally caught this. WOW! It was everything I expected.... except.. ..Hiccups voice..who in the heck approved that?
He sounded like a cross between Norm McDonald and Hermie from Rudolph.
He sounded like a cross between Norm McDonald and Hermie from Rudolph.
Jay Baruchel and the directors worked it out between them, presumably. I thought he kicked all kinds of arse, mesself!
It's great though, isn't it? My 3yo still asks to watch 'the dragon movie' at least once a week, no objections from me, it bears up to repeated viewing really well.
It's great though, isn't it? My 3yo still asks to watch 'the dragon movie' at least once a week, no objections from me, it bears up to repeated viewing really well.
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
I really had no expectations from a Dreamworks movie... rather expecting it to be Shrek quality with songs and lame pop-culture crap that dates it even before it hits the theatre and makes it unwatchable and impossible to get the in-jokes later.
It was endearing and engaging and since people are comparing some of it to Avatar... well... the flying scenes are totally different visually as well as emotionally. I like both for their individual strengths... but you get a more happy/awe sensation in your stomach when watching the flying scenes in HtTYD.
Personally, I was impressed with how the characters moved... and all the unspoken gestures that weren't as exaggerated as has been seen in other animated movies.
This is the first Dreamworks animated movie I would rank on par with Pixar. Good to see them improve their game.
You are basically advocating narrowmindedness and just doing what your parents and society tell you to do without thinking about it or trying to find other ways that may work better. That's stagnation.
It was dragon training and the kids were told to defeat the dragons. Hiccup did just that. No cheating there. He just had inside info on how dragons ticked.
It was endearing and engaging and since people are comparing some of it to Avatar... well... the flying scenes are totally different visually as well as emotionally. I like both for their individual strengths... but you get a more happy/awe sensation in your stomach when watching the flying scenes in HtTYD.
Personally, I was impressed with how the characters moved... and all the unspoken gestures that weren't as exaggerated as has been seen in other animated movies.
This is the first Dreamworks animated movie I would rank on par with Pixar. Good to see them improve their game.
Why do you say he's a cheater? He found ways to win that the other kids didn't think of/know because they wasn't capable of thinking outside of their cultured breading box and actually spend time with a dragon and learn about them. All they did was what their parents did: KILL DRAGONS.
You are basically advocating narrowmindedness and just doing what your parents and society tell you to do without thinking about it or trying to find other ways that may work better. That's stagnation.
It was dragon training and the kids were told to defeat the dragons. Hiccup did just that. No cheating there. He just had inside info on how dragons ticked.
Carsten, these were the guys who did Lilo and Stitch. You see a ton of that in the character design and the little character gesture things you mentioned. It's not so much Dreamworks bootstrapping themselves as importing talent, but either way, it pays off and I hope they do more work with people this good.
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
Well... yes, I know. But... that's what I'm saying about Dreamworks. They are upping the game by employing the talent and bringing out better work.
I love this show.
Haha, I saw this last week at a gettogether, thinking it was just the usual POS animated movie of the month, but I was blown away. The visuals were soooo cool. And I was impressed that there was a consequence at the end. Although I thought it kinda went against their whole "make peace with the dragons" by blowing up the mega dragon, but still it was awesome. And when Toothless fired his Photon Torpedo thing, it was sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
I just hope they dont make a sequel and ruin it.
Good Work Dreamworks!
I just hope they dont make a sequel and ruin it.
Good Work Dreamworks!
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
There is a kind of sequel... it's on the Blu-Ray release from what I've been able to read...
Call me a sucker for characters who work hard towards something that usually doesn't fit any medium of what they are trying to become (female dragon slayer? Since when?). And I'm not advocating that she stick to the "kill all dragons". I was hoping Astrid had developed some suspicion by herself herself to some extent, but she was such a narrowly developed character that she literally needed to have her life threatened in order to apologize for something that Hiccup really is responsible for. Sure, she had that narromindness teachings that dragons were evil, but what else were you going to suspect? Remember, our hero Hiccup was keeping all this info to himself to the point even when she discovered what Hiccup was up to.
And yes, I'm calling her useless because when the big battle comes in, her role as a fighter is rendered completely useless when she needed to be rescued, taken out of the fight (pretty much the only one out of all the kids) and reduced to the hopeless onlooker. Can you make Astrid any more pointless? And don't get me started on that talky talk scene between her and Hiccup. If he had half the care he did for that dragon, he would have come up with that conclusion anyways.
So that's my stance. I didn't like the movie that much because when it came to it's biggest female character in the whole story, all she did was get pushed aside. Heck, Hiccup didn't even train her first.
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Too Much Garlic
Master Member
The other kids got pushed to the side and had to be rescued and stood and just watched while the hero saved the day, which is why it is so surprising why you only zero in on the female character. None of the other kids had the smarts she had and none of them went out to find out how the main character suddenly got so good... they just suddenly wanted to be his friends without questions. So, no, I'm not getting your complaint one bit. Seems you'd only be satisfied if she saved the day at the end and Hiccup stayed a useless nobody... or... if those two roles were reversed.
To me it just seems like you want to hate for no real reason.
To me it just seems like you want to hate for no real reason.
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