A Christmas
tale set in the “Now to train your dragon world”.
“How to
train your dragon” was the great surprise of 2010. After years of decline, and uninspired
“Shrek” sequels, Dreamworks proved they could still do it with “Kung Fu Panda”
in 2008 but, given the amount of resources that are required for something like
that, nobody was betting on “How to train your Dragon”. Certainly a lot of
credit is due to Sanders and DuBlois, the directors of “Lilo and Stitch” which
had been terminated by John Lasseter practically on the day he took the reins
of Disney animation came late in development and drastically overhauled the
script.
Anyway, I
rented this direct to DVD sequel of sort and I must confess I’m disappointed.
Instead of going the Kung Fu Panda direct to DVD sequel route, with a
traditional simpler animation to keep the cost down, they tried to keep up with
the quality of the main movie and so they released a very short and limited
feature, only 22 minutes it’s practically an episode of a daytime animated
serial.
Gone are also
the breathtaking visuals of the cinematic feature replaced with pretty standard
CGI, rich in color but devoid of anything of interest.
The story,
and all the blue ray content, is for kids, there’s nothing there that an adult
could appreciate. If you liked “How to train your dragon”, keep waiting for the
sequel.
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