Reviews

Hiccup's defiance and refusal to kill Toothless of course represents a change, a shift in this mindset which ultimately decides the events of the rest of the film.

was the fourth feature film of Pixar and the movie that I think that really kickstarted their never-ending train of quality films.

From the same director as epic films like Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Princess Mononoke, comes movies like Kiki's Delivery Service and My Neighbor Totoro.

Films like Castle in the Sky and Kiki's Delivery Service are more subtle, but they'll touch on environmental films.

Toy Story is certainly one of the most influential animated movies of all time, and I would put it as one of the best of Pixar's films as well.

But in the end the execution didn't really work out, and I think they could have made better characters, plot, and other things to make the film work out better.

The opening takes way too long with introducing the characters and then zooms past as the dad and son do all their adventures when he's a snowman.

The pacing I don't think was very good, but I think the film did a good job of showing what perhaps trauma or autism might be like, with loud noises and fast images, as well as odd trade-off scenes with long dialogue and then very fast imagery or information.

I'm really struggling about that, because The Bookshop has multiple characters who die, and some of them are the only likable characters in the film.

Except even that movie, made 75 years before this movie, still had more interesting characters in the form of the evil queen.