How to train your audience.

Okay, so having kids I saw the latest "Live Action" version of one of my favourite kid's films, How to Train your Dragon. It has it all.

The remake also has it all, as it's basically the same film, but with real people instead of animation. I'm fine with either for my movies, but yup, prefer real people. The movie guys know this; hence the remakes.

But face it; this is probably how it would have been made in the first place if we had the technology back then. Now we do, and I expect a live action HTTYD2 soon. Why not?

So much Hollywood output is utter garbage; why not dive back in with mostly the same people and re-roll an animated classic with the latest tech? Toothless is exactly as cute as he used to be; uses the exact same expressions; someone has probably done frame-by-frame comparisons. Except instead of simplified animotions we have superkenetic 3D anthropomorphisis. I mean, this fucker has micro-expressions. What's not to like? They even managed to make that gross-out fish eating scene even more gross.

The whole Viking-island-Dragon-origin is nicely explained now; killing two birds with one stone (scene); the other being inclusion. Nicely played. And their desire to find the island, end the dragons is also much more real than in the original. Better story-telling: Fact.

Once you get past the "Oh this isn't the original" phase (of being a dick), this movie hits home, hard. That dreamy up-in-the-clouds kicks the animated version's arse up and down the street. Along with many other scenes.

It's not flawless, but neither was the original; something we like to forget in our fawning.

I wish I'd seen this first. And sorry, the other one not at all.

;o)

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