Academy Awards, USA 2011
| Nominee Oscar | Best Animated Feature Film of the Year Dean DeBlois Chris Sanders |
| Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score John Powell |
Paramount
Directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Paramount)
On a mythical island, Vikings are relentlessly attacked by dragons. Manhood is measured by the number of dragons one has killed. The teenage son of the Viking leader is physically weak but mechanically brilliant. Instead of fighting dragons he builds things to shoot them down. He succeeds in wounding a notoriously violent dragon, but doesn't have the heart to kill him. Instead, he befriends him, then trains him to fly while riding on his back. He impresses the rest of the Vikings with his new dragon-taming skills, except for his father, who refuses to give up the old dragon-killing traditions. When the nest of the dragons is revealed, father and son must confront not only the dragons, but each other. Some heartwarming moments between the boy and the dragon, and those magnificent flying sequences, but both are almost drowned out by too many loud, obnoxious explosions and other action cliches.
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