Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Hello and welcome back. If this is your first time here, welcome to Movie Deputy Reviews. And if you are a return listener, I am so thankful and I'm thankful for all of you actually.
[00:00:12] So kind of like the old adages that old song says, it's like it plays in my head a lot is make new friends but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold. I feel that way about all of my listeners. I value all of you. And whether, like I said, whether this is your first time here or you are, we keep coming back and finding out what the interrogations of these movies are. I know I'm having a lot of fun with this and so are you. Or at least I hope so. I get a lot of mixed feedback on everything and I always say it's like I don't try to please everybody because that would be absolutely impossible. So I stay true to the Deputy scale and I just talked to you as if I was describing these movies to my best friend because I just want to, I wanted to put it out there and I want to get deep into like who the target audience is and if this is appropriate for children or not. Hence the guilty of the innocent rating. Innocent is safe typically for 12 and below and guilty is typically safe for 13 and above unless I specify with a little more detail in it during the interrogation or AKA the review of this. So today we are going to be jumping into a movie that has a new version of it coming out later this week. And and so I'm hoping that you are going to get as much joy out of these as I did. I'm going to start right out by telling you the score that I gave this movie even before I tell you the title. So I'm hoping you can figure that out. The score that I did give this movie is a 7 out of 10 on the Deputy scale. And this one definitely has an innocent rating. By far an innocent rating.
[00:01:52] Now that being said, this is not a movie that is simply just for kids. This is truly one of those movies that is good for all ages and thankfully so have been the sequels to this. And if you haven't been able to figure it out yet by now, we are talking about the 2010 movie how to Train youn Dragon where we meet Hiccup and the all of the Vikings that are on Burke or that are also known as the Hooligans if you are a huge fan of the series. But yeah, the Vikings there and they're. They make their entire living and their everything that they do involves with fishing and hunting dragons.
[00:02:34] Now why do they hunt dragons? Well, because the dragons are.
[00:02:39] Affect how many fish and stuff that they can catch. And that's part of their livelihood is the fishing. And so hence part of that is the dragons. So they re. How many more times did I say so? Sorry.
[00:02:51] But so the whole thing with their culture is the. When the kids and stuff get of age, they go into this training thing, dragon training, and they learn how to hunt the dragons. And so they learn all the different maneuvers and things that they have to do to beat the dragons.
[00:03:09] And that's kind of where the problem starts, is there is one Viking who just doesn't seem like he can fight a dragon. And that is Hiccup. Everything in him tells him that hunting dragons is wrong, killing dragons is wrong, but he wants to learn everything that he can about them. So he starts studying the dragon manuals and he just immerses himself into it. And he works. And he tries to work in the local, like, blacksmith shop and tries to help, but Hiccup is Hiccup. And his name is very fitting, as most of the things that he tries to do are hiccups. Because he just doesn't seem to be very coordinated or very successful at a lot of the things that he starts to do or tries to do.
[00:03:59] And so here you have this really awkward kid, and he's at the age where he's supposed to learn how to hunt dragons.
[00:04:06] And then you add into the fact that his dad is the chief of the village.
[00:04:11] So not only does he have all the pressures and everything that comes with being a teenager, basically in puberty, but then he has to live up not only to the standards of what is expected of him at that age, but with his dad being the chief, it kind of puts a whole different level of responsibility on his shoulder.
[00:04:34] So he decides to dig into the whole thing with dragons more. And so he decides to build this thing, this net or gun, net shooter launcher thing that he decides to just try out. And when it accidentally goes off, he ends up catching a dragon.
[00:04:53] And it's not just any dragon. It's the only dragon that no Viking has ever seen. It's the Night Fury.
[00:05:01] And only he doesn't realize that he has caught this dragon yet. And so he decides to go out to see what he caught and what. Because he's like, okay, I can do this. I can do this. And he's going there and he's getting ready to kill this dragon, and he can't.
[00:05:18] And don't worry, that's not spoiling anything that's not spoiling anything at all. But if you are at all familiar with the series, you guys know who Toothless is. Well, before Toothless was Toothless, Toothless was a Night Fury that was just as scared of humans as Hiccup was of him.
[00:05:35] And so, slowly and surely, Hiccup gains his trust. But the thing is, when Hiccup caught the Night Fury, when he caught Toothless, something happened. And Toothless can never quite be on his own completely ever again because of an injury.
[00:05:55] Now that I won't give away. You'll have to watch the movie to find out what happened.
[00:06:00] But so he. He. Toothless, he decides. Or not just Hiccup. Hiccup decides to try to train the dragon, and he tries to tame him, and he decides he wants to try to ride him. Well, it's an absolute comedy of errors as they go through this, because it's learning thing for both of them. But also, Hiccup is still having to go through the training. And the winner of that goes to the training. They actually get to kill a real dragon after their training is done.
[00:06:30] Well, so Hiccup is living like two different lives on this island. He's doing this thing with Toothless, and then he's doing this other thing where he's learning how to kill a dragon.
[00:06:39] But befriending Toothless is showing him a bunch of little secrets that he is doing while he's in class. And it ends up kind of propelling him to the front of the class to where he is like the top person that basically wins the dragon training and gets selected to kill a real dragon. Only when that time comes, because of everything that he has learned, because of Toothless, he can't.
[00:07:03] And it's just an absolute nightmare, almost just chaos, because you have all of these Vikings here who are just dead set on killing dragons. They can't see any other thing. And there's a line in the movie that is like, they have killed hundreds of us. And then Hiccup says, and we have killed thousands of them.
[00:07:28] And it is. It's such a powerful line in this movie just because of the way that it's done. But Hiccup and his friends are able to show the rest, the Vikings, that dragons aren't as scary as they seem.
[00:07:45] But the thing is, on top of what the Vikings do with the fishing and the killing dragons, there is has always been a quest to find the nest, find out where all of these dragons return home to. That is something that dragon or the Vikings have been searching For. For centuries they've been trying to hunt these dragons and find their nest. Literally for centuries.
[00:08:05] And because of now some of the dragons being tamed and things like that, to be able to ride them and be able to guide them and everything, well, it gives the Vikings a chance to be able to find the nest and that.
[00:08:23] How do I want to put that? I can't give too much without giving it away.
[00:08:27] But once they. They do end up finding the nest and once they get there, there is something that they do not anticipate. And this single surprise is going to change everything for not only the dragons, but for the Vikings as well.
[00:08:43] Now, does this movie have a happy ending? Not necessarily in the way that you might think.
[00:08:51] It's a very emotional, hence the reason I give one of the reasons I gave it a 7, but hence, it's such an emotional roller coaster ride because you have your highs and your lows. It's like you're almost on the verge of tears in a few scenes and then you're laughing at others. And it was so much more than I had expected from a story such as this. I mean, here's a cartoon about dragons and Vikings. I mean, come on, how far are they really going to take this?
[00:09:20] Well, this really surprised me because the depth that they get to in this story that they kind of got to, it just. It takes you through the relationship that Hiccup has with his dad. It takes you through the relationship that his dad has with the community. It takes you through that awkward stages, stage of being a kid and what that can. What can come of that and what strengths that people may have that aren't necessarily obvious all the time and just kind of go through all of these things. And then we begin to see the dragons almost as pets in. In a way. And so you can see different traits in them and different things that they can do in their abilities that. How they can affect and help the people.
[00:10:16] And there's so much to that and so much. There's so much depth to a story such as this that it's not just a story. This is something that you take something away when you're done watching it. This is something that you leave the first time you're going to watch this. The first time you leave after you watch this, or if you watch it at home after you've watched this, you realize that you've both gained and lost something.
[00:10:40] Now, what do I mean by that? You've gained something?
[00:10:45] Because you have gained a lot of insight into not only the human condition, but into so many different things on different levels now. And what did you lose? Well, you've lost that person that you were before you had those things. So you're not losing anything negative. You're just. You're. Every time that we gain something, we.
[00:11:07] This is like a theory that I just have. And I mean, you can say it's hogwash if you want, but it's both gaining and losing something. Because every time you gain something, you are losing a little bit of something, whether it be a bit of self, a bit of reflection, a bit of something else, that maybe you think of something a little bit differently than you used to, or maybe you do this and so you're gaining that, but you're also letting go of like, the. What you had before, and you're letting go of the old. The old way you used to think, or you're letting go of something else.
[00:11:39] And these movies do such a good job of kind of showing that and through experience and entertainment, not in a boring sort of way, but in the kind of thing that, like I said, it's just something that will stay with you for a long time.
[00:11:55] At the time when this one came out, I was so looking forward to more that would be part of this series. We had no idea it would go as far as it has.
[00:12:04] And this one came out four years before I started Movie Deputy.
[00:12:08] So I don't know why I'd never gotten around to reviewing this one. I had gotten around to the original review on the how to train your Dragon 2 and the hidden World, which I will be sharing those with you over the next couple of days. So I hope that you come back and check those out as well in anticipation of this weekend. So I, for one, can't wait, and I hope you can't either. So, as always, I'll be back soon. Bye. Bye.
