A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

GONNA TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, GONNA TRAIN IT GOOD: When I sat down to type this post on How To Train Your Dragon, I had started off by musing that if you don't have kids it's not essential viewing. I didn't think it was particularly brilliant, moving or funny in a way that grownups would appreciate ahead of more age-appropriate fare. But then I saw the 98% rating from Rotten Tomatoes and it reminded me just how hard it is to be this strongly competent in telling a coming-of-age tale slash war-on-terror parable which was good enough in the 2D upon which Lucy insisted, and I can just imagine how awesome in 3D what with the dragons flying and all. No, I don't understand why Scotsmen Gerard Butler and Craig Ferguson were cast to voice the lead Vikings, but if you're looking for a solid animated adventure see this movie. As Lucy said, some movies for kids are good because they're funny, and some because they're cool -- and this movie is cool.