Taking advantage of the fact that these days we have had the Easter holidays we have escaped, Jon and I, to see the most fashionable animated film right now: How to Train Your Dragon, in 3D.
The film premiered on March 26 and the box office results seem to be worse than expected (considering that it has only been on the billboard for a week), however our impression is that it is a very correct, entertaining and recommended film for have a good time with children and enjoy the visual spectacle that involves watching a movie in three dimensions.
To give you an idea of what you can expect from this movie, I will talk about it from the point of view of parents, from the point of view of children and valuing the technological advantage of seeing it with polarized glasses.
For dads and moms
Even if I told you the movie detail by detail, I wouldn't reveal much to you because, basically, you've already seen it. Well, no, you really haven't seen her (some), what I mean is that history is repeated, like many children's films, in fact.
The protagonist is Hipo, a boy who does not just fit into the world in which he lives, a town of Vikings, because he is thin, ungainly and somewhat clumsy, but who wants to prove that he is capable of being a Viking more and not just one more, but the best, so that his father, brave and tenacious where they exist, and all those who criticize and make fun of him, realize that he really is who he does not seem to be.
Come on, that I have described at one time to the typical protagonist of hundreds of films that get the viewer to identify with him in some way (or are we all perfect?), Showing, as the movie progresses, that He is able to be loved by the rest for being as he is and not for being one more.
Saving this fact, the script meets expectations and what makes it advisable is that it is very well told and keeps you, during the 98 minutes it lasts, attentive to see what comes next.
It is not a movie with which you are going to laugh, because it does not contain the typical gags at Shrek (Personally I prefer it, because few children understood them), but it does offer a beautiful story in which two different species, Vikings and dragons, finally realize that, as bad as the other may seem, it does not have to be.
About the price, in case you are wondering, say that 3D has increased the cost of tickets. We spent a total of € 26.10 (2 tickets for € 9.50 because we didn't have glasses, a big popcorn and a big soda, which we shared, for € 7.10). Come on, if you go the whole family, let's put dad, mom and two children, you leave quietly 50 eurazos in a moment.
For the little ones
The film is recommended for all audiences, although the age at which I would recommend watching it would be from four or five years, it depends on the child. My son is four and in some passage of the movie he seemed a little tired (it also happened when he saw "Up"), but in the end he returned to pay maximum attention (normal, since the end is quite spectacular).
The film is beautiful, it offers an enriching message, a little in the style of "The ugly duckling", which comes to say that it is not necessary to be the same as the others, since being yourself you can also do great things, although as the message It is not usually the reason to see or not a movie (it is understood that a children's film will not have a negative message for children), it remains only to answer the most important question, if it entertains.
Does it entertain? If much. I could see several children behind their big gray glasses watching the movie embobados, attentive to every word and every event and excited every time something important happened. At the end of the movie many applauded (I confess, me too), and that is usually indicative of what they enjoyed.
Is it worth seeing in 3D?
"How to Train Your Dragon"It has meant, both for Jon and me, our baptism in the three-dimensional world. At first it is a bit weird, it seems as if you were not able to focus the images correctly (perhaps it is a subjective sensation), but little to Little do you get used to it and start enjoying the visual spectacle.
It's great to see a movie watching the distance of characters and objects and it's great to see how they get so close that you can almost touch them.
It is worth watching this 3D movie, no doubt, because it has been designed for it. It is true that when you put on your glasses you lose some brightness and color, however the images come to life and, immediately you realize that the film has been designed with the idea of being seen with polarized glasses.
Objects that approach the screen, characters that speak to you, dragon flights almost in first person and other impressive images to see happen throughout the footage and would lose enough grace if we saw the film in the usual two dimensions.
Conclusion
Movie entertaining and recommended because, despite telling a predictable story for parents, it surprises and pleases the little ones and entertains the elderly for how well told it is. If you can see in 3D better, although, for those of us who do not live on the dollar, it is a show that is paid at the price of gold.
