How To Train Your Dragon

What? A movie without Lee Pace? On this blog? Amazing, I know.
For this Movie Monday, I chose a personal favourite of mine, a movie that's very dear to my heart. As the title of this post says, it's How To Train Your Dragon (2010). If you haven't seen it yet, I hope this post will inspire you to do so, and then you can be ready for the sequel coming later this year!

If you're not familiar with the story of the island of Berk and it's inhabitants, I'll fill you in. How To Train Your Dragon is the story of the young boy Hiccup, and his wish to fit in with the rest of his Viking village. He is a scrawny skinny and clumsy kid, who also happens to be the son of the mighty and strong Viking Chief Stoick. Their home, the village of Berk, is being attacked daily by dragons, and killing a dragon is the manliest thing you can do. So of course Hiccup tries his best to kill one, so he can make his father proud and not be an embarrassment.

And that's when the adventure begins. Because it seems like things are finally looking up for our dear Hiccup, when he catches a legendary Night Fury!

I'll not go too much into detail about what happens next, because you need to see it for yourself. But I can say that it is a heart warming tale of friendship and believing in yourself, even if you don't live up to the standard of the people around you. And it makes me cry several times through the movie, and it happens every time I watch it. And trust me. I've seen it a lot. Because everything about this cute little movie makes me emotional. The beautiful animation, the amazing voice acting, the fantastic story and then something I care a lot about in movies: the musical score. John Powell did some amazing work for this movie, and I'm quite sad he didn't win the Oscar that year. Which was also the year I wanted Hans Zimmer to win for Inception, but alas. To demonstrate how wonderful the music in the movie is, try listening to my favourite piece called "Forbidden Friendship". It's so light and full of hope and adventure, I really love it.

This movie not only have an adorable lead character in Hiccup, and a cute lovable dragon in Toothless, but it also have great side characters. You'll really come to love them all, and appreciate them. Which is why I'm gonna recommend you also watch the animated series Dragons: Riders of Berk, and Dragons: Defenders of Berk, before watching the sequel. Because since the sequel is gonna have a time jump of five years, the show fills in what happened in the time in between.

But really. I can't say much else without spoiling the great parts of this movie, so I'm just gonna leave you with a little cute (attempting to smile for the first time) Toothless, and push the dvd into your hands.