Young Underpaid Professionals

Heathens! Impious! Wicked! Yes, yes, sure. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s get to the heart of this post.

Luke and I decided to catch a movie yesterday because – come on, let’s all admit it – there was nothing else to do. It was a scalding holiday, most of the establishments were closed, and people were somewhat resigned to just wait for the next day – Easter Sunday – to finally start doing something. Anything.

We had two movie choices: Clash of the Titans and How to Train Your Dragon. Before deciding which movie to watch, we checked Rotten Tomatoes first. It’s a reliable gauge of how good or how bad (and how much of a train wreck) a movie is. We saw that How to Train Your Dragon was rated 98% by people who watched it, while Clash of the Titans was rated 30% (This rating was last Saturday, but now it’s up to 69%). We read through the reviews, and it seems Clash of the Titans’ all-star cast of Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and Sam Worthington was not enough to save the movie from getting slain by movie critics. So, we went for the obvious choice and watched the movie How to Train Your Dragon. It’s an animated feature film directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBois for DreamWorks Animation.

It was a good decision. Almost everyone who was in the queue was buying tickets for Clash of the Titans. Only a few people and several kids were lining up for How to Train Your Dragon. We watched the movie in 3D, and I don’t think the movie can be enjoyed any other way. From what we’ve seen from the movie’s trailer (from as far back as January 2010), it basically follows the story of the antagonist Hiccup who is of Viking decent. His father’s the Viking village Chief, his mother was a Viking too, and he lives in a Viking village. The village considers dragons as gigantic pests because they take the village’s sheep and cattle. Vikings have hunted down these pests for as long as the village has been there. Hiccup always tries his best to prove that he’s a Viking too. However, he often fails. And the fact that Hiccup decides to “train a dragon” instead of slaying it doesn’t seem like a good idea at all.

Now, I won’t spoil the movie for you guys. But here are just some of the cool points about the movie How to Train Your Dragon which should motivate you to watch it:

1)    Craig Ferguson voices Gobber the Belch. Come on, that should be enough to convince you, right?
2)    Gerard Butler voices Hiccup’s Viking father, Stoick the Vast. I mean, really now.
3)    Hiccup is a swordsmith’s apprentice, and he can make contraptions of his own! (Yes, geek. Thank you.)
4)    The story was not rushed. Nope, not at all.
5)    The ending was satisfactory. I like how the movie executed the concept of “mirroring”.
6)    It’s in 3D.
7)    DRAGONS! Lots of dragons.

I know I should say something more substantial here about How to Train Your Dragon, but like the title says, it’s just a pseudo-review. Take it or leave it. Oh, and I loved the movie. I won’t say it’s a feel-good movie, but it was really nice to watch.

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