Thomas Barrett

This live action, 2025 "reboot" of How to Train Your Dragon is a worthy re-telling of the original animated film. Everyone in the film does a wonderful job of presenting their individual characters, and the graphics are spectacular. In my opinion, there are no downsides to this movie. It is an extremely enjoyable family film. Definitely worth seeing! There is also a beautiful choral rendition of the movie's orchestral music, which robustly and deservedly ends the final credits of the film. Do Not listen to any negative criticism regarding this movie. See it while it's still on the big screen. You won't regret it!

The only saving graces in this movie are the visual effects and the little girl. Aside from these two elements, there really is no viable storyline, and the script is atrociously written. In all honesty, a 5th Grader could have written a much better screen play. Several of the characters presented in the film were unnecessary to the substandard plot, and numerous scenes made no sense at all. They both could have easily been left on the cutting room floor and the overall effect would have been exactly the same. Not at all worth the time to view it!

Without a doubt, this is Oscar-worthy material. All the women deserved Academy Awards for their portrayals. Even the sole male actor deserved an award for his contribution to this truly remarkable ensemble presentation. If you enjoy movies that make you think, feel, and pull you into the film - then this is a movie for you. However, if you, like the masses, enjoy films that move quicker than the Starship Enterprise at Warp 10 and beyond, do not allow you even a moment of reflection, or a scintilla of cerebral introspection - than seek elsewhere, for you will be disappointed. Yes, this film won an Oscar - only 1 for the script, an award for "best adapted screenplay". It should have won all the Academy Awards, but fewer and fewer of us "think" anymore. We'd rather be hit in the face with an oncoming train, walloped by a cinder block of galactic magnitude , or proverbially ripped apart by a fast and furious onslaught of speeding cars and hailing bullets. This film is a goldmine, a wakeup call for our time, an epiphany awaiting the world to acknowledge that we, as human beings, must not only learn from our past, but keep it firmly in our minds, or it will continue to repeat itself until there's nothing left to learn from.