![]() However, the Vikings’ spotty teen offspring have eschewed the rich parental burr for high school movie teen American. ![]() Also, the Vikings are kilted and bearded, if lacking in sporran, dirk and bagpipes. The Vikings find themselves with Scottish accents, perhaps a legacy of Shrek for Dreamworks Animation meant that big, gruff, beefy blokes sound Scottish. It made me think about the old question of accents in films. Our 6 year old and 4 year old companions looked bemused. Basically, everyone thinks the wispy Hiccup is a wimp. You’re launched right into a noisy and confusing night attack by the dragons on the Vikings and you’re expected to pick up plot lines amidst the bangs and crashes and bolts of lightning and dragonian flame-throwing. The first ten minutes is Hollywood scripting at its worst. Love interest is provided by the teen queen Astrid, herself a dab hand with a chopper (or should I say “battleaxe”). Our hero, Hiccup, manages to befriend and tame a Night Fury dragon and then befriends all the dragons and people stop killing them and everyone learns to respect their differences and lives happily ever after. ![]() The story of How To Train Your Dragon is about a Viking village plagued by a variety of colourful dragons. Kids give you an excuse to see this sort of 3D computer animated stuff. ![]()
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