How to Train your Dragon
Sep. 28th, 2010 12:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blamebramptonOne of the few upsides of Evil Mag TM is that I am back reviewing in print rather than just for web formats. Which is why tonight I watched How To Train Your Dragon (DVD release). I know that at least one of my flistees loved this in its cinema release, and I have to agree, it's wholly charming!
The animation is vibrant and refreshing, the characterisation consists of actual characters rather than entirely stock, the hero is a natural philosopher rather than a classic Viking -- it was all the things I tend to adore. But what made me burst out with laughter is that it slips in a Norse gravegoods misinterpretation joke! Someone on that writing crew is at least friends with a costume historian, and this amateur one appreciates the wink!
Thoroughly recommend this for everyone with small people, or with an adult academic interest in the postmodernist approach to storytelling through technology exemplified by Dreamworks (feel free to use that excuse next time someone raises an eyebrow when you buy a ticket to a kids film without a kid in tow, I have a Very Dull lecture that goes with it if you need more.)
The animation is vibrant and refreshing, the characterisation consists of actual characters rather than entirely stock, the hero is a natural philosopher rather than a classic Viking -- it was all the things I tend to adore. But what made me burst out with laughter is that it slips in a Norse gravegoods misinterpretation joke! Someone on that writing crew is at least friends with a costume historian, and this amateur one appreciates the wink!
Thoroughly recommend this for everyone with small people, or with an adult academic interest in the postmodernist approach to storytelling through technology exemplified by Dreamworks (feel free to use that excuse next time someone raises an eyebrow when you buy a ticket to a kids film without a kid in tow, I have a Very Dull lecture that goes with it if you need more.)
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Re: *butts in*
Date: 2010-10-01 02:57 am (UTC)All I am going to be able to think about when I see SH2 is Oscar!Fry and Bosie!Jude! 8D
Re: *butts in*
Date: 2010-10-01 03:06 am (UTC)AHAHAHA Mycroft/Watson ogawd. It _can_ work >=D
Man, Jude Law looked so, so young in Wilde. Like barely legal (in the U.S. at any rate) young =3
I'm glad he didn't play romance leads (except for Wilde, I guess) until he was in his 30s. He looks more mighty fine now >=D
Re: *butts in*
Date: 2010-10-01 03:29 am (UTC)Ah, Jude. He made something of a habit in his younger years of playing jailbait for older men, didn't he?
*fondly recalls Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil*
Re: *butts in*
Date: 2010-10-02 06:42 am (UTC)Re: *butts in*
Date: 2010-10-05 06:42 pm (UTC)Re: *butts in*
Date: 2010-10-07 12:00 am (UTC)*molests your icon*