Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse & America Ferrera
Directed by: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Written by: William Davies, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Genre(s): Animated, Comedy
NO SPOILERS HERE!
I didn’t see this movie in glorious 3-D when it was released in theaters last year. Instead I watched it on DVD recently and thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact I’ve watched it three times already. This is a fantastic movie with heart and story for everyone to enjoy. It also made my top 5 list of modern day animated movies, bumping off TOY STORY in the #5 spot.
As it stands now, my top 5 list modern day animated movies are:
1) THE IRON GIANT (1999)
2) THE INCREDIBLES (2004)
3) SHREK (2001)
4) A BUG’S LIFE (1998)
5) HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (2010)
A few notes about “modern day animated movies“:
Computers changed film making forever, including animation. Say goodbye to painstakingly hand-drawn thousands of cells and hello to 3-D rendered characters, hair follicles, textures, explosions, liquids and worlds. THE IRON GIANT is the exception on this list. It combined 2-D and 3-D rendered elements, and typically fools people as a standard 2-D animated movie. Like all modern day animated movies, computers were utilized to bring THE IRON GIANT to life.
As a possible art project, I’m intrigued about re-creating pages from the dragon reference book as seen in HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON. This would be one heck of thing to do and would be fun. What do you think?
Watch trailer here:
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Copyright © 2011 by Rob Dragan
