Word: stoick
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...goals set by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Dragon's directors and (with Will Davies) writers, for their version of the Cressida Cowell book. Their teen hero, Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel from She's Out of My League), is the underachieving son of a fierce Viking warlord, Stoick (300's very own Gerard Butler), whose tribe has been battling dragons for centuries. When Hiccup wounds an elusive creature called the Night Fury, no one believes him. Soon he tames, trains and learns to ride the beast, thus schooling his clan in the proto-eco message that the wilder forces...
...secondary cast, including Gerard Butler (as Hiccup’s dad, Stoick) and America Ferrera (as tomgirl Astrid, whom Hiccup wins over), acquit themselves admirably. Perhaps the most inspired supporting performance comes from the ever-dependable Craig Ferguson, who voices Hiccup’s mentor Gobber, a character who says everything mentor characters are never supposed to say in movies, thus providing some of the film’s best laughs. At one point, when Hiccup complains how he can’t help that he wasn’t born with the beefy physique of his father, Gobber helpfully...