How To Train Your Dragon Blu Ray DVD Review
Arts & Entertainment → Television / Movies
- Author Inger Fountain
- Published December 4, 2010
- Word count 414
How To Train Your Dragon was released early in 2010 and was the first of Dreamworks Animation's releases for the year. Being the first of this studio's 3D cinematic releases it was an amazing experience visually but what seemed to surprise most cinema goers as well as critics was the strength of the story and characters. It still stands as the year's best film, voted 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Watching movies in 3D can sometimes detract from the story of the film, focussing as it does on the visuals instead. Now that How To Train Your Dragon is on DVD and Blu Ray fans can now experience this wonderful film, and with Blu Ray, in all its High Definition Glory. And it is indeed glorious.
The flying scenes that were so memorable in the cinema are just as spectacular and moving on Blu Ray and details like the designs and colors on each dragon's unique scaly hide stand out beautifully. Hair and water movement is crisp and flowing, it's one of those movies that was just made to be seen in Blu Ray on a big TV screen, and the lack of 3D only adds to the overall effect of the movie.
The story of the young teen Hiccup and his quest to find himself in a village full of bloodthirsty Vikings, How To Train Your Dragon is roughly (very roughly) adapted from the book of the same name by Cressida Cowell. Where it strays from the book it adds to the story and it's hard to deny the film makers have improved on the source material some ways, especially in a cinematic context.
Extra include a short animated film featuring the cast of How To Train Your Dragon, Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon, which mixes 2D and Computer Generated Animation montages effectively. This 2D and CGI seems to be a speciality of the Dreamworks studio who used 2D to great effect in the opening sequence of 2008's Kung Fu Panda.
The Blu Ray also comes with interviews, storyboards, behind-the-scenes footage, deleted scenes as well as commentaries and more. While there is no digital copy with the Blu Ray this is not a huge issue and you get a DVD copy for your laptop or a second TV. How To Train Your Dragon is one of the best animated movies of the last 10 years and the emergence of Blu Ray couldn't have come at a better time to show it at home in all its glory.
Inger loves stories and loves to write. As a librarian in a previous life she also has an insatiable thirst for general knowledge. Her latest website looks the Best Electric Fireplace models including the popular Dimplex CS3311 compact stove.
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