How to Train Your Dragon
I have made my peace with an unsavory truth: the Hollywood of today is going to continue crafting live-action remakes of the animated films of yesteryear until they run out of material. Why? Because audiences like them – more often than not, they score big at the box office. Familiar stories and characters all dressed […]
Remake? Try Cinematic Déjà Vu
The best way to enjoy the new How to Train Your Dragon is to be totally unfamiliar with the original animated movie from 2010. The live-action version is so close to the Dragon cartoon it recalls a kid-friendly version of Gus Van Sant’s Psycho. If you don’t know the first HTTYD, that won’t matter; the new film features the same clever story, […]
A Brutally Honest Kid’s Review of ‘How to Train Your Dragon’
When I was a kid, I loved going to the movies. As a dad, going to kids movies is way less fun than coming home from kids movies. Oh sure, I enjoy taking my two daughters to the theater. As you might imagine, they are genetically predisposed to enjoy the experience. But the real highlight for […]
Remake is nice, but doesn’t soar
movie review HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Running time: 125 minutes. Rated PG (sequences of intense action, and peril). In theaters June 13. Over the course of two hours, the macho Vikings of the village of Berk go from despising and demonizing dragons to loving them like adorable puppies. I can’t say I experienced the […]