With incredible action sequences and flight scenes, at its core it's really just a compassionate and relatable story about a father and son. Baruchel's unique and nasally voice perfectly fits the meekness of Hiccup, and Butler is wonderfully masculine and unsure. Also, it boasts one of the greatest traditional scores of the modern era, brilliantly repeating it's themes by modulating keys and forms where appropriate.

I OFFICIALLY WANT A PET DRAGON. I literally fell in love with the Dragon that it feels that his (yes I said his) character arc is even deeper than the main character's. 10/10 no thought about it.

For animated films, this movie is a masterpiece. It has perfect visuals, an amazing soundtrack, breathtaking scenes, a perfect story, perfect characters, and so much more. There's no doubt that this film is now a longtime classic and will be taught as one of the perfect animated films in universities in the future. Everything just went right with this one. It's so rewatchable, as well. This film is what makes me love movies. And that final fight scene- just epic. Awesome, in the truest sense. My only complaint is that it should have been longer- more time to develop the background and other characters. But overall, a great movie. It will no doubt stand the test of time as an animated movie masterpiece.

How to Train Your Dragon is a breathtaking animated movie which deserves high praise for taking a done-to-death story and making it exciting and engaging. The flight scenes and the discovery of the dragons are highlights of the movie, because when you see those landscapes from above your jaw will drop. Just amazing work of animation. No wonder Chris had a directoral role in this moving story, after all he gave us Disney's Lilo & Stitch which also had touchingly dramatic scenes. Toothless kind of reminded me of Stitch, I don't know why. The sequel is also has a lot of excitement and is, in my humble opinion, a little better than this, but HTTYD started it all so therefore it deserves the highest praise.