How to Train Your Dragon

I saw this with my daughter and her 4 year old and everyone enjoyed it. He sat through the whole thing and was more involved in the story than an adult would be :) I'm not sure if that says alot for the movie, or more likely just says alot for this little guy. He has some amazing powers of concentration!

This movie is pretty - and we saw it in 2D not 3D - but also seemed to me to have a lot of the same kind of scenes. Since it's dragons we're talking about there was scene after scene of things shooting fire, catching on fire, blowing up with fire, fire, fire, fire. And the setting is a small Viking village so it was bleak and dark in contrast to the fire.

I was bothered by the fact that everyone in the village was a Viking and spoke with thick, old world Viking accents, except the boy named Hiccup who sounded.... well like Christian Slater. (the voice actor was actually Jay Baruchel, but he was doing an excellent Christian Slater impersonation)

Those little details aside, this is a very good movie about thinking outside of the box, challenging how "it's always been done" and having compassion toward other living things. The message is a good one and if you can get through the fire and fights you'll find it. All 3 of us - ages 49, 25 and 4, really enjoyed it.

Tinseltown in Col Springs was the place. Fresh hot popcorn and some incredible new seats that I've never seen before - these are like captain chairs with the high backs! We gave this one a '4'.