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Friday, April 23, 2010

The tale of a reluctant dragon slayer

How To Train Your Dragon (2010) is now being showing at the New Capitol Cinemas. It is the latest from DreamWorks Animation following on their previous serial hits, Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda (Mmegi, August 15 2008).

"Our Dragon is both innovative and repetitive. Most of what it contains you'll wonder, "Haven't I seen this before".It is a Viking tale set in old Iceland, a place you have been to in a variety of films like Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (2008). Then there was Beowulf (Mmegi, 21st December 2007), which was also about the old world. One expects Asterix to show up to greet his Viking friends, but he doesn't.

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