2014 · animation · family · adventure
Dragons: Dawn of the Dragon Racers
Directed by Elaine Bogan, John Sanford26m2014
A hunt for a lost sheep turns into a competition between Hiccup and friends as they compete to become the first Dragon Racing champion of Berk.
Our read: Dragons: Dawn of the Dragon Racers (2014) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · family · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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How Dragons feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a short, silly, fun animated dragon-racing romp with the Berk crew.”
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