Toothless’s “Timmy” is town misfit Hiccup (voiced by Canada’s Jay Baruchel, adding just the right note of nerdy angst), a skinny kid who yearns to battle the dragons that regularly raid his bleak seaside home, making off with sheep and leaving smoking ruins behind. Perhaps lopping off a flame-belching head or two would help him finally earn his disapproving dad’s love. It’s not easy to live up to the standards of a hulking chieftain named Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler), who is built like a walk-in freezer and wears Gentle Ben as a raincoat.
Finally allowed to attend dragon-fighting school, Hiccup just can’t make the grade, watching as Fishlegs (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), Snotlout (Jonah Hill) and brave super-babe Astrid (America Ferrera) do battle like old pros against dragons like the Deadly Nadder and hummingbird-winged, spud-like Gronckle in the training ring. Meanwhile, Hiccup is in danger of being the main course at the village barbecue.
Based on the children’s books by British author Cressida Cowell, Dragon owes much to its DreamWorks Animation predecessors Shrek and King Fu Panda, especially Shrek. Like the lovable green lout, all of adult Vikings speak with thick Scottish brogues, which somehow make their lines even funnier. As Gobber the Belch, the blacksmith and head of the training program who has lost a few body parts while battling the winged creatures, funnyman Craig Ferguson is in his element.
I love this movie！It is touching......
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