- Rating:
- 60%
- Format:
- DVD
- Year:
- 2010
- Predominant Genre:
- Adventure
- Plot:
- Boy befriends dragon.
- Themes:
- Personal change
- Self-expression
- Compassion
- Similar Titles:
- Unknown
- Best Performances:
- None
Strange, ahistorical White supremacist fantasy about Vikings being rational warriors fighting real enemies (here, dragons) rather than the looting, plundering, parasitic scum they are historically known to be. Rather than face the reality of White history, we are presented here with the myth of the noble warrior who never existed. Moreover, the usual tokenistic nod toward Feminism is included without making any real sense dramatically.
The violence is gratuitous for a family movie and reveals its pacifism to be a sham. The animation is technically weak and hinders the development of the characters and, thus, our emotional commitment to entire project.
Essentially a retelling of the myth of Androcles & the Lion, but really a rip-off of Harry Potter, this movie says more about Whites today than about them yesterday, and more about the mythologizing Whites wish to pass on to their offspring. There is not a shred of genuine Norse mythology to be found in a story with an undeniably Norse background. A screenplay-by-numbers waste of time.
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